I think they take it to mean "Your kid could start having sex,"

That's not the issue with these parents. It's like there's two weird pockets of anti-vaxxer cray-cray, MMR and HPV. They seriously think it might kill their children. I don't understand why.

I think they take it to mean "Your kid could start having sex," What Laura said.

Yeah, the insurance figures by this age you aren't going to get anything out of the vaccine. Which pisses me off belatedly that ten year ago when it came out I couldn't get it. Grr.

There have been two references to Mick Belker in my life in this last week. I think it's Ginger sending me messages.

she was as far from a dirtbag as Joyce was.

The improv class was good -- I made a joke at my expense about sex with farm animals (hey, I had to go with the line my partner set up, so there you are [I mean WHY NOT make your first impression among 15 strangers an implication that you fuck sheep, AMIRITE]) and I was a deep fryer. Really.

HPV is super scary. In TMI territory, I know so many women that have had genital warts removed, including myself. In one case it took the life of a close friend's wife because it wasn't caught in time. Years later it dawned on me that at the time that I had the procedure to burn away the lesion I was living with my husband, who later died from AIDS. This was before we knew he was sick. Poor man was so freaked out that he may have infected me. I never was afraid at the time, no doubt too distracted with my fear for him.

Anyway, I am all about the vaccinations and preventive medicine in general. Much easier to stay healthy than get healthy once you have an issue.

The improv class was good

Yay! Super YaY! I've been waiting to hear all about it. More detail!

I'm glad it went well, Steph.

Laura, of course each of you were more worried about the other.

We did a lot of different exercises to introduce the idea of "yes, and," which means that you build on what your partner says/does. I ended up as a deep fryer in an exercise where one person at a time goes up, announces what they are ("I'm a tree!") and then a second person has to build on that ("I'm a squirrel on a branch of the tree!") and a third person builds on either or both of those. Only 3 people, no dialogue. And then the instructors tell 2 people to sit down and one to stay as what they are (like the squirrel) and it starts all over again.

In several rounds we got from a tree to 1 woman as a french fry and another woman as a chicken nugget, so I ran up, laid down on my back with my arms and legs in the air and announced, "I'm a deep fryer!"

My brain is so weird.

Perfectly logical progression, Steph.

Love it! That sounds like so much fun.