I just bathe in DEET myself. It is inexpensive and easy.

My son is equally close with both sets of grandparents. Now, that his father has remarried, he is also equally close with his stepmothers parents. He probably will not be as close with my SO's parents as they live on the other side of the country.

I voted "other," because we do three of the choices. Everyone first talks to their SO, then we all call each other to rehash everything, then we talk to the person in question who had the shocking news.

Well, where I am right now is Juneau, Alaska, but I will be back home to Austin, TX next Wednesday so I am putting both temps. Juneau at 8:47pm is 57, High was 60 and low was 49 Austin at 11:47pm is 84, High was 100 and low was 73

Old Navy usually has cheaper versions of these.

Anytime my dog does something wrong, usually getting into the trash or dragging a cup left out into the bedroom to lick clean, I will scold him by asking, "Did you do that?" His response is to look the opposite way of where I am standing and pretend he can't hear me.

When I read the first two paragraphs of this post, I thought it was meant as a tongue-in-cheek kind of thing, because I figured nobody could feel that entitled.

This thread is hilarious. All the band directors I have known were at the very least baton throwers. and stand tossers at worst. My teachers were all pretty normal, I suppose. My health teacher was a coach and fully expected and appreciated that I let the lead basketball star copy off my tests. All my others were decent and some even great at teaching.

I might join you, but let me research it first. My current normal caloric intake is a net (food minus exercise) of about 1200 on weekdays and 1800-2000 on weekends.

I paid my car off about 4 years ago, but gave it to my son last week and bought myself a new-to-me (2012 with 21,000 miles) car that I have financed.

I second the diatomaceous earth suggestion. We had lots in an old house and that is what helped the most. I found out the hard way that I am allergic to their venom. I have been stung twice and the second time nearly ended up in the ER.

I did not read all the responses, but my son works 30 hours a week as a delivery driver for Pizza Hut, and he does not get paid minimum wage when out of the store making deliveries. It is $4 something an hour when out of the store and minimum wage when in the store washing dishes, cooking, or waiting on a delivery. The assumption is that he will get tips when delivering so the pay is lower. He also gets $1 per trip whether he is delivering to one place or two.

This comment is just in regards to the participation grade. I had a graduate level class a few semesters back (Population Genetics if anyone cares) where 10% of our grade was based on participation. Participation was based on how much we talked during class, asking questions, making relavent comments and such. That in itself was reasonable. The bad part is that the professor announced the first day of class that the participation grade would be competitive. There were 6 of us in the class and he would be giving one A, one B, two Cs, one D, and one F, and we would be competing with each other for our grade. One student basically said, "Screw it," and only made one comment per class. She got the F. The rest of us were obnoxious in our attempts to talk during class. If one person said something, the rest of us made sure and try to say something too. Honestly, I felt out of the remaining 5, one talked a little less, but he was international and had poor English skills. (He got the D.) The rest of us were about equal. I got one of the Cs, but still did fine in the class. The point is that graduate level classes especially do not have to be "fair." For what it is worth, we were all friends and our cut throat competition was relegated to that particular class. On another participation note, the lab I am currently TAing has a 10% participation grade too. The students in each lab group anonomously grade each other on participation at the end of the semester. I get the final say if I think something is unfair, but have yet to do so. I would intervene grade-wise if I had a table of mean girls picking on someone who I knew had been participating fully or if I had everyone in a group giving high marks to Mr. Popular who never did anything. So far, and this is my fourth semester, they have been very reasonable. In addition to the grade, they have to have a sentence justifying it like "always willing to be a subject," "turned in their part of the group assignment on time," or "missed outside meetings frequently without communicating." I don't know enough to comment on whether or not her suit is justified. With that on her record branding her as a "trouble maker" she will probably have difficulty finding a job unless she has MAJOR justification to back her up.

I think I misunderstood the question when I answered less than 2%. I thought you wanted to know how long the adulterous affair had been going on during the marriage, but the answers I am reading make me think you meant how long the affair relationship lasted AFTER the divorce. In that case, my percentage would increase to 100%. I know of three marriages that broke up due to an affair and the cheating partner was and/or is with the new partner for way more than 2 years.

Well, after having to read, discuss, and be tested over 28 published peer-reviewed papers last semester for a graduate-level "Climate Change & Biodiversity," class, my answer is that while we are in a warming period of a natural cooling cycle, anthropogenic (man-made) causes have greatly increased the rate of warming. I have my written comprehensive exam this semester that all Ph.D. students must pass in order to remain in the program. In reply to whomever had been talking to university professors, all I can say is that for my track (ecology), I will be tested over anything dealing with evolution, climate change, structure & function, and ecology. If I were to state that climate change was only a natural cycle, I would fail and no Ph.D. for me. The same goes for evolution, by the way. I attend Baylor University which is a Baptist college so this is not an issue of a secular school promoting an agenda, but simply one of science.

The last adult-only party I was at, a group was playing Cards Against Humanity. It is full of hilarious inappropriateness and absolutely could not be played around children at all.

I am working on my Ph.D. in biology in a comparative vertebrate physiology research lab at a major Christian university. I can guarantee that EVERY professor in our Bio department would think a student who believed this needed to find a field other than science, and would tell said student that in fairly blunt terms.

I use livewire.com, put in my dates that I prefer, and then when the flights with prices come up, click on the little calendar at the top that says See Price Calendar. When it comes up,click "Search for all prices."

I have a smartphone and use the free MrNumber call blocker ap. I automatically blocked all numbers beginning with 800, 888, 877, aqnd 866. After that, anytime a call came through that I did not want, I just hit for it to block that number too. I have quite a block list built up. I just have them go to voicemail on the off chance I have a legitimate call coming in, but another option is the pick up and hang up treatment.

Awesome! I love nerdy stories like this.

#3 Dh is going to have to come up to speed as both a teacher and manager of behavior. He agreed to do it and it is only fair for him to help.

My boyfriend wears a utilikilt in the summer to stay cool. Just one more reason I love that man...

I just looked at the document and I would have to be "obese" BMI wise to donate. I'm 4'10" and I would have to weigh 146 pounds! I guess I understand the rationale, but I'm not going to become unhealthy in order to give blood.

I am SO hoping you get the job!!!

My heart started racing just from READING that. You deserved the chocolate and drink! I don't want to hijack your thread, but it does not necessarily get any better as they get older. My son is 18, almost 19, and this happened to me two weeks ago. I'm in grad school and teach bio labs as part of my stipend. Obviously, my cell phone is set to vibrate while I teach. During a lull in lab while the students were busy working, I pulled it out and saw I had a text from Verizon that the line with parental controls (so ds can have numbers of stalkerish girls blocked) had called 911. My heart stopped beating. I then saw I had also missed a call from ds about 20 minutes prior. I immediately called and texted him and got no reply. I logged into my Verizon account from a lab computer and saw he had called me, his dad, and his step-mom one right after the other and then apparently 911. I tried to call and text him again, then his dad's work and cell, followed by his step-mom. I left messages on all of them. Lab was starting to wind down and by this time, the entire class (24 junior pre-med students) knew what was going on. My supervisor stopped in to see if I needed anything for the next group so I told her what was happening. She said she could cover for me if I needed to leave, but I told her that at that point, I had no idea where to go as I had no idea what had happened or where he was...and then I started to get teary. I had several students offer to pray with me and said they would pray for ds. It's a Christian university (Baylor) and my students are sweet. I started setting up for my next lab and by this time, an hour had passed since the missed call, when my phone rang and it was ds. He had been taken to the hospital in an ambulance and could not use his cell phone until he was settled in a room in ER which is why I could not get in contact with him. Why he was being taken is another story and I have hijacked the thread long enough, so suffice it to say that he had an extremely elevated heart rate, but is own meds and fine now. My supervisor heard me say, "you were taken by ambulance," and "which hospital are you at," and was making get out of here motions with her hands so I took off asap. I am giving serious thought to activating the gps in his phone now... Hug your little one and hopefully you won't have a repeat.