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And you made sure to check with the professor after the class. Things like that help-- any TA/ professor will probably tell you that personal interaction, class participation &c &c can only help your grade... a good portion of any grading is a subjective evaluation of the student's grasp or the...

I say, old man, steady on, what? Ahchoo! I will admit to using the Comic Sans Ms in blue when I write emails... especially if I'm replying point by point within the original text... The way I have my editor set up it doesn't automatically add angle brackets (">") before the original...

There's a long-term project coming up for me here at UMass that will include "moderating" a series of scheduled live chats on a public-accesible website (as opposed to one with access limited to members of the enrolled class, say)... At the moment, we're working on the website itself, and were...

Since the topic is coming up at school these days, would someone be kind enough to give me the skinny on live chats? I've seen them posted as taking place once or twice, but never participated... How do they work? What's the format? Can anyone just write something in, or do questions go through...

"The Curse of the Monolith"... IIRC, the blob in this story was one of those Lovecraftian "outer horrors"...

Georgia Lass... Prince Sirka/ Joe Black (depending on which version you like...) There's also Death, and his apprentice Mort, from Terry Pratchett... I'm got versions of Hahn/Wyatt's Angelic Orders in my historical fantasy homebrew, so I'll have to include the archangel Azrael as well...

American, at my brother's mother-in-law's place-- thirty or more people, two turkeys, no waiting, paper plates because no-one wants to do that many dishes, and I'll sit at the kids' table... I'm bringing cheese and ice cream to go with the pies, and volunteered for clean-up... (Does anyone...

Clint Eastwood, Lee van Cleef and Eli Wallach?

I had the same experience last year at King Kong, and started a similar thread then... I agree that there are some movies that are inappropriate to take small children to-- King Kong is not appropriate for children that are not mentally mature enough to deal with the violence, the horrific...

The last half-hour of "Lost" each week-- I have a class until 9:00p Wednesday nights, and no Tivo... I suppose I could finally figure out how to set up the VCR, but it's the middle of the semester, so there's plenty of reading to do instead... :\ I did decide to take an evening off, and...

It's the middle of the semester, so the "for-fun" reading is mostly non-existant. For classes, I'm in the middle of Death in the Dining Room & other tales of Victorian culture by Kenneth Ames, Gender and Jim Crow by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, and a fairly substantial pile of books having to do...

For a look at one campaign of this type, I'd suggest Kid Charlemagne's "Casebook of Nigel Spenser" (http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=140875)

DM: "You open the door. Behind it is a ten foot by ten foot room... Standing in the middle is a pile of 500 Greek triremes with a longsword. Roll initiative..."

I just had a flashback to the 1979 movie "Love at First Bite", when the Soviets nationalized Dracula's Castle... "In three days the Woman's Gymnastic Team will be arriving with vaulting horse, balance beam and Nadia Comaneche. Either you spend the rest of your life in an efficiency apartment...

I had two for the entire night... If I pace myself, I should be finished with this pile of leftover candy just in time for the chocolate bunnies to come around...

I'm in Amherst, MA-- I could get to the state line within the hour... Why do you ask?

Cinnamon in a meat dish isn't so unusual-- or at least, it wasn't back when there was no refrigeration and you had to cover the taste and smell of spoilage when you brought the dishes out to the king! Same for cloves and pepper... I use beer and cinnamon in chili-- it tends to be more sweet...

Not a sourcebook, but helpful to mine for ideas-- Butcher's Summer Knight Feist's Faerie Tale Goldstein's Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon You could get by with just the core monster books-- it's all a matter of presentation... Remember, these are the beings that steal children, dye their...

I'll second that, and add Feist's Faerie Tale to the mix... and Lisa Goldstein's Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon, if you can find it... for a literary analysis of how the cultural conception of faeries has changed over history, I'd recommend Diane Purkiss' At the Bottom of the Garden...

Love this holiday... For the inexpensive alternatives: Dress in grey, put a stuffed gorilla on your shoulder, and go as the Empire State Building... Make some black paper crows, pin them to yourself, and go as Tippi Hedren... If you feel you want to play to your ethnicity, wear a white...