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I wish, Mark! :whip: I was right about their exam scores, btw. The highest grade was a 76, a mid-C. I'm going to have to curve this one, as much as I hate to. I was trying to be nice to them, too. I even gave them a review sheet last week. I think most of them just over-thought the questions.

Does anyone else hate those? I ALWAYS seem to get stuck next to the stupid kid in a stupid little Civic or Sentra who LOVES to rev his stupid little car at every. Single. Traffic Light. I sat through 4 lights yesterday, next to one. Vroom. Vroom. Vroom. Vroom. Stop it already! Or I'll strangle you through your window! It's worse than the ones with too much bass shaking their crappy little cars apart. And can I just say that I really hate it when an ambulance or firetruck driver sets off his siren JUST as I'm passing them? I'm not talking about the ones who are using it to go anywhere, I'm talking about the ones that will set it off once for just a second. One did that yesterday as I was passing him in a turn lane, and it nearly made me drive off the road.

My dad is the one that makes the stupid "rubber band" remarks. He was talking on the phone to my relatives, telling them that I was having a rubber band put around my stomach. He knows better, too. He was supposedly just doing it to try and be funny (but personally, I think he's just an ass sometimes).

Um, I'm addicted to the Gidget movies. You know, the ones from the '50s or '60s. Wow, that's embarassing. I used to nag my mom to rent "Gidget Goes Hawaiian" all the time.

She'd probably turn as red as her hair.

My parents used to have an old, old Health-O-Meter balance beam scale. I should see if they still have it and if I can have it, if they do (since I know they don't use it now). Seriously, though, that thing was ancient.

Very true, unfortunately.

My god, the one yesterday was the worst one yet. He was literally revving every other second. Rev. Wait a second. Rev. Wait a second. Rev. Through four whole lights. At least he didn't have a whale-tail spoiler on the back of his crappy little civic. That would have REALLY made me want to strangle him.

Yeah, I think the only time I've used "sweetie" was when talking to my cats and here on the board when someone is having problems. Well, once when I was trying to talk an absolutely DRUNK friend of mine into going to sleep, too. Why is it that the non-drinkers always get drunk control duty?

Even in college, it's ridiculous. There was a girl that was doing her Master's at the college where I was doing my undergrad that dressed like an absolute ho, yet didn't understand why other women weren't very friendly to her. She was the type that wore skin tight jeans (seriously, I don't know how she got them zipped, we're talking SKIN TIGHT) and low-cut, extremely tight tank tops with her boobs hanging out. And you know what I saw one day? A girl wearing a mini skirt (one of those stupid ruffly ones that were popular a couple of years ago) that came down maybe 2-3 inches from her ass, walking back to her dorm. It was SNOWING, for Pete's sake! It looked abso-freakin-lutely stupid.

Yep. Most of the ones that come to our area of Tennessee are from Michigan or Indiana. Plus, they seem to want to retire down here.

Good luck! I hope we see more of you around here!

What's marimba, if you don't mind me asking?

I would LOVE to. The Cape is absolutely amazing. I really wanted to see Boston while I was there, but I never got around to it. The weather was really what blew my mind. I had such a hard time getting used to Tennessee summers after spending a summer on Cape Cod. The newscasters kept talking about the miserable humidity, and I'd think, "What humidity? This is awesome weather. It's less than 80 degrees out side AND there's a nice breeze." I laughed about it with the refuge biologist, who was from South Carolina. I might have to spend summers on Cape Cod and winters in Florida. Hey, that's an idea. Maybe I can get grants to do summer research up there while I'm doing a PhD somewhere where it's warm in the winter.

I THINK it's a marshmallow fluff and peanut butter sandwich. Maybe? That's what I've always heard in TN, though, so it may be different up there.

I hit onederland this morning! :clap2:

Jaz, you are completely amazing. I wouldn't have had the guts to do it. Your cause is great and you look beautiful, so don't let people that have axes to grind get you down. That's their problem, not yours. Like someone else said, they are the type of people who would have something nasty to say about a 20 year-old who was a size 0.

Awesome! :clap2:

That definitely helps! I had gotten the part about cigarettes, but not the other stuff.

It depends on the person, honestly. Some people can eat bread, some people can't, some people prefer not to. A lot of people think of bread as wasted calories. I can eat very small amounts of it, if I chew long enough and take very small bites, but I generally just don't eat it. I used to be a bread addict before banding, and I've always found that if I have a little, I want a LOT. It's just easier for me to stay away from it, since I can't eat enough to satisfy the cravings I get for it if I start to indulge. Plus, other foods are more comfortable for me to eat since I got decent restriction (bread is very slow going). And really, I don't crave it anymore. Once you've not had it for a while and broken the addiction, you don't crave it very often.

Good luck! I'll definitely be rooting for you!

I've LOVED Massachusetts accents since I interned on Cape Cod (at Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in Chatham - geeze, I wanna go back) in 2004. Made me a Red Sox fan, too!

Yep, that's why I can't listen to "Umbrella" by Rihanna. I have the same reaction to that as I do fingernails on a chalkboard. My brother's always after me because I talk with too much of a Southern accent, to him anyway. I have problems saying words with an -or ending. They end up coming out sounding like -er. Rapter instead of raptor. I'm very self-concious about it, since he nagged me. Photosynthesis is difficult for me, too. The "s" and "th" sounds stuck together are sometimes hard for me to say. I drawl my "I" sounds, too.

Actually, I think she probably did. It just wasn't done back when she got married. You got married and had kids, and that was just how it was done. We've actually bonded over our mutual dislike of children.

Sure! Yes, it does! Kinda makes me wish I had gone to Mexico, though, 'cause I would have been out about the same amount of money, had a more experienced surgeon, and gotten to onederland sooner!