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Everything should have an alternative zombie killing design function. I'm just sayin'. Yeah, lack of sleep sucks big-time.

Well, you have to understand that the baseball cap style is HUGELY popular in the States. Like 90% of people wearing hats out here are wearing that style. But this one was a bit of promotional swag from Star Trek Beyond that I got hold of 'cause we got a bunch of leftover stuff brought to the last ConQuesT staff meeting.

It has a metal (OK probably metallic plastic) Starfleet insignia on it!

Today, Quiver is Best Pony. It wasn't even a very impressive hat. It was just a white floppy one I was wearing to keep from sunburning the top of my head. But the sea wanted it, so it took the silly thing. Fortunately, I have another hat. I will not be wearing that one into the ocean, though, as I do not want to lose my cool Star Trek baseball cap.

Well, technically neither hand is burned, just the arm. But now that you mention it, yeah, it's my right arm that burned. It is rather sore. Thanks, Scotch-Irish gingerblood! I...guess? It was kinda funny. James and I were playing out in the waves; we went just deep enough that we were past the breakers. Except then one big wave came in that broke early, knocked me down, and stole my hat. Just, poof! No more hat!

*cuddles the pony* *gets aloe vera all over the pony*

Though it can vary. My school put 6th in elementary, and had 7th & 8th as junior high. Some other schools will put 7-9 in junior high or middle school, and only have a 3-year high school. There is no perfect standardization.

*calm blink* You stole from a sunburned ginger. You know not the doom which you court.

Is this a thing that is likely to happen today? I managed to sunburn one arm. Because I somehow forgot to slather that single limb with sunscreen at the beach. Woe. Also, the ocean ate my hat.

You ARE a young child. Or I'm an old fogey. Or both.

In case anyone's been wondering what happened to me the last few days, I am on VACATION. In ORLANDO. James and I have ridden the two big Harry Potter rides at Universal at LEAST five times each. I know I'm behind the times, but it was...really something, wasn't it? I was live Facechatting back and forth with Oudeis during the whole thing. There was a lot of exasperation and snark on both our parts. At one point, I asked, "Why the <bleep> doesn't the moderator have a mic kill switch?" And he replied (wisely): "Because he has a TV show and one of these people will become the President, and he wants whoever it is to agree to do interviews." So there you have it. The moderators let themselves be walked all over because interviews. I think you hit the nail on the head. I disagree; Hillary Clinton broke out of the proscribed First Lady mold; she was active in the political sphere and had no interest in setting aside her career. She's been reviled by the traditionalists from day one for not "knowing her place"; from what I've seen over the years, the vast majority of her "scandals" were manufactured. She's been completely cleared about anything to do with Benghazi. She never had information that would have allowed her to change events. Even FOX News has finally admitted that the entire thing was a sham. As for the emails, I do admit that I was extremely disappointed in her for that lapse in judgment...but I also understand where it came from. Yeah, it's against policy, but when you get submerged into a culture that says, "Oh, no, you should do it this way because it's so much easier. Everyone else has done it this way, it'd be silly for you not to!" She's hardly the first Secretary of State to run her own private server; they've ALL done it for years now. Even Colin Powell has gone on record to say that yes, he did exactly the same thing, but you don't see anyone dragging him in front of a federal court for it. Nor do you see it happening to any other Secretary of State who has followed the same pattern - the difference there is that every other Secretary of State was male. That right there says a lot.

Heh. Oh, the generation gap; cell phones became a thing when I was in college. My first mobile was this crazy blocky thing that you could've used to bludgeon a zombie. Internet wasn't even within its capability.

Can I have a pony?

You kids these days and your fancy-pants school wifi. Back in my day, the internet was technically born, but nobody knew about it yet. Wifi was science fiction! (My day kind of sucked.)

Hee. Great minds think alike.

Heh. Depends on exactly how you handle it, I think, and how well you communicate your needs to any potential partner(s). It's also quite possible to be completely aromantic, but still want to pursue a physical relationship with someone you have an emotional connection to. FWB is more in that category, but sometimes you have to just look at it from the angle of "What do I want and/or need?" and try to build something from there. Really, there's no one size fits all solution to relationships. We live in a society that puts a very high value on monogamy, and that works extremely well for a lot of people. But it doesn't work for everyone cause our hearts and brains aren't all put together the same way.

I got excited! And then I saw that there weren't nearly as many cosplayable ideas in there as I'd hoped. Alas. Still cool, though.

Twiparents are generally awful people. You haven't been around for the worst of the saga, but if you go back and peruse through the early iterations of the Bad Day thread and through the reams and reams of Random Stuff threads, you'll find most of it. That's an awful lot of reading, though. You might want to take some snacks if you attempt it.

Morz, has it occurred to you that you might be hardwired for polyamory? Because it kind of sounds like you might like a little romance in your life, but don't want it to be all-encompassing, and don't necessarily want to be exclusive. I doubt you'd be the first poly person to not particularly want any primary relationships, but would like to have a secondary or two floating around without a full-time OMG You Are My One Twu Wuv thing going on. Heh. It varies wildly by individual. There are a lot of people who have hordes of women drooling after them who I glance and and think, "meh." I am attracted to men. But I am not attracted to ALL of them, or even necessarily MOST of them. And I am not always attracted to the sort of men that society thinks I ought to be attracted to. The whole thing is a giant lump of YMMV.

It kind of is. Thanks to the TV show, I do know the resolution to that bit. Whether it turns out to be the same in the books is as-yet unknown, though I suspect it will be. But I'm not gonna spoil you.

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True. And when it's plural, that's how I write it. (Though I still pronounce the extra possessive 's'.) However, when it comes to my husband's name, James...well, something that belongs to him is James's. Because even though his name ends with an 's', there's only one of him.

I mark it as correct. And yes, I also pronounce the extra 's'. There are some people who disagree with this. I think they are wrong.

I continue to be bewildered by these super-serious teens on the site who are all, "Yeah, I like this person, but I'm not ready to date yet and I am going to ignore the feels." I suspect wizardry on their part. I realize that you're in full-blown high school teenage hormone bomb mode and this isn't all that helpful for you right now, but I promise...it gets better in college. It becomes a lot easier to find a pool of like-minded people from which to suss out potential partners.

I'm a 1 on the Kinsey scale, which is colloquially known as "heteroflexible". Basically, I am mostly attracted to guys. Every once in a while there's a lady who might press a couple of hormone buttons, but if given a choice between 1) sleeping with Kate Beckinsale or 2) raiding her costume wardrobe, I'd pick the second option. Genderfluid is more common than people think. The person I have referred to in the past as my unofficially adopted little sister is genderfluid and pansexual. Zie's also polyamorous and has the most adorable little polyfamily. Asexuality generally means that one doesn't experience sexual attraction. That's very different from experiencing it and finding it annoying.