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I could see myself joining OKC just to return messages with all the errors corrected. That would actually be entertaining.

HAHA! Awesome! My relationship with MC, then, is getting ready to learn how to drive, while my relationship with TGIB is walking and eating solid foods.

That sounds fair. She can talk about your relationship from her perspective (which might be quite illuminating to you!) but presenting it as "Because they were mono and I'm poly this happened..." isn't helpful to anyone reading, since you do not currently identify as mono. (As a hinge with two...

Well, no, Valentine's Day is about the companies that sell cards, sweets, and flowers gouging you for more money than they normally can the rest of the year. :P Seriously, I think you can make any day be Valentine's Day. We don't NEED a calendar to tell us when to make our loved ones feel...

*waves* Hello Neighbor! Sunny, yes, but COLD! I want my mid-60's temperatures back! (Yes, I know, I'm a wimp and would never survive winters in other parts of the country.) Good luck as you move forward with the new information you're getting. My husband and I also got together at 19/20, I was...

Sorry about that SnC. It happens sometimes that people post without realizing how their "voice" can be perceived in an environment with no tone or body language. Unfortunately we the readers can't KNOW how a writer intended something to be read in every case. Usually miscommunications can be...

Ummm, because statistically speaking a LOT more people spend a LOT more time and money on gaming than is usual for most other hobbies. For whatever reason it seems to be very addicting for some. There may be the occasional person who fails classes or loses a job or relationship due to too much...

As a high school teacher, students are NOT allowed to say, "That's so GAY!" in my classroom. I don't care if they're actually homophobic or not. I don't care if they have gay friends or not. I don't allow them to say it because it perpetuates an idea that using sexual orientation (perceived or...

Oh, that was a GREAT article. I don't usually read the comments online, but I'm glad I did this time, if only to reiterate to myself that there REALLY ARE people out there who truly don't think sexism happened in the gaming culture until people started talking about it. Moronic, but out there...

Mmmm, I would say that the female gamers need to weigh in on this more. I don't know that boys can accurately determine whether something does or does not feel like a "boys club" to the non-boys. For instance, there are still MANY mainstream game stores with clerks in their 20's or 30's that...

Yes, I liked that one as well. I didn't read it in school, though. I read it as an adult when it was the assigned reading (in their English class) for some of my math students. I wanted to be able to talk to them about it. I wouldn't be at all surprised if you get something different out of it...

Oh, and speaking of whiners I've gotten the impression that it's a good thing I haven't read Wuthering Heights. Some day I suppose I should tackle The Handmaid's Tale and The Scarlet Letter, though. I just realized I did a WHOLE SEMESTER of Philosophy in Literature in college. Awful. I should...

Was talking to November Rain tonight and one of us used a "Gala Girl" phrase (I wish I could remember which one!) so it was decided that "THANK YOU" needed to be said for putting concepts in words that stick with us when we need them. :)

Lord of the Flies was probably the worst for me, followed by Red Badge of Courage. Then Of Mice and Men, then Moby Dick. I don't think the lessons I learned from those books were anything like what my teachers were expecting. Old Man and the Sea was okay. So was Summer of my German Soldier. I...

hyena, is that Carbon?

Yes, I had a problem with reading ahead too! Very difficult to remember what you shouldn't yet know about when you're being asked what characters are doing in this or that chapter or what is being foreshadowed. I liked Much Ado About Nothing (still do), but we did it during Senior Honors...

Love cracked, love reading, totally agree with that article. And I like math and science and have been a high school math teacher for over 6 years, so I'm WELL aware of what teachers can do to help or hinder a student's fondness for a particular subject. My thing about book reading (as well...

Rory already linked to a pertinent discussion on Polyamorous Misanthrope, but in case you didn't click it I'll reiterate here: tubal ligations and vasectomies are not 100% reliable, especially as time passes. Sometimes couples make the mistake of thinking, "I've had a vasectomy/tubal ligation...

a) If she won't let you be there for her, there's nothing you can do about it. It sucks, but it's on her if she keeps pushing you away. b) This is a big red flag for me in a long-term, committed partnership. I know some people need their space to work through things before they talk about them...

Sure. I could give you all kinds of examples from my own relationships, but ultimately here's what decides what is "fair": Are you okay with it? Is he okay with it? Are any other people involved okay with it? Ultimately that's all that matters. We learn from the time we're children that "fair"...