Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Concorde is my new awkward hero.

Some of those improvements Portia mentioned I think play a factor in parents' desires to have the best! kids! ever! If you have more control over when/where/how you have kids, you want to wait to have them until they'll have access to everything good. Education and sports and manners and culture and...

I don't think she's bitter, or right. I think she's just tired. And wanting to be acknowledged. I thought the writer's frustration was that all these parents bragged about things their kids did as a way of saying "Look at what a good parent I am!" and she didn't have any sort of comparable...

I came across gongshow in my brother's companion's letter home today ... then I realized that he's Canadian, like Sister Zed, and that I'd first encountered it in one of her missionary letters! It means an event marred by confusion or ineptitude, and originates in hockey culture. I just heard that ...

Aww, sorry Digit. I didn't meant to single anyone out! I just meant to throw that out there for anyone on the board board who might have been interested.

Indefinite Integral that is really cool! It's a small Mormon world, I guess.

Digit thanks for bringing that story up! I had to read Harrison Bergeron in school, possibly in elementary? I don't remember exactly, but I was young enough that I found it pretty disturbing. It would be interesting to read it again as an adult. I've mentioned before that I'm a book blogger and I ho...

I'm with you guys. There are so few women role models on campus to begin with. It'd be a shame to have even fewer. And I know most students don't sit around and think about the person their building is named for, but even the two No Dice mentioned in his comment are rarely used by students. The Harm...

Regarding the Chicago question, I just want to say that one of the best things that ever happened to me was when they opened a Portillo's Hot Dogs (as mentioned in the answer) right near ASU, and pretty close to my house. Because I freaking love that restaurant. chocolate cake shake. This is why al...

I've always liked "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams. Plus I just like his name.

Lovely job on the Chicago question to yay & Stego Lily. I second the recommendation to go to Giordano's. If you ever find yourself in Chicagoland, go eat pizza there. I keep trying to type a sentence about it and there are no words. Behold.

This made me think of a quote I've seen going around tumblr, credited to Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. from “The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog”. Apparently it's a book. I haven't read it so I can't verify the quote. Anywho, it goes, "For years mental health professionals taught people that they cou...

Also Imelda Staunton in that same movie vs. the Harry Potter ones. I really like that version of Sense & Sensibility, which is extra funny to watch now. It's got House, Trelawny, Snape, Umbridge, Rose from Titanic. And also Hugh Grant. Remember when he was a thing?

Story! Story!

The first book is called Cinder. I just heard of this yesterday, do you like it? Is it worth it? I'm always wary of series and tend to stick to stand alone books, but the premise is really cool. I really did. It's supposed to be a four book series and only two of them are out right now. I think the...

My husband loved The Wheel of Time series, and he's not much for dense, "you have to think about this too hard" writing. Although he thought a couple of the books in the middle weren't as good. My favorite books from 2013 in general fiction were Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell and Jellicoe Road ...

Read some banned books. Wear inappropriate shoes for the weather - like flip flops in the winter. (Seriously, my mom would throw a fit if I wore flip flops after September. If she wouldn't have made an issue of it, I'd have worn them once, frozen my toes off, and never bothered with it again) Drink ...

I have friends with strong opinions on both sides, so there's always some "this is the end of the world The Second Coming is nigh!" as well as the "bigots in Utah take that" bunch. I get tired of it. Mostly I avoid Facebook right after anything controversial happens because I'm o...

Oh my goodness, yes. Thanks mico! That's kind of a crucial word there.

That's really cool Dragon Lady! I love the face coverage without having the whole "I'm about to rob a bank/go skiing" look.

I just got a handy email from Goodreads about this very thing this morning. I read a little over 60, but I'm also a YA book blogger in another internet life.