If you are going to commit plagiarism in your original writing coursework, try actually handing your draft in on time. That way there might be a small chance it might not get noticed within ten minutes of your teacher getting the email. Also, don't change your topic completely at the last minute, since that makes it even more obvious. And choose ( Read more... )

If this is the beginning of life past 40, I would like to officially change my mind about being all brave about it. So far, being 40 has meant ( Read more... )

Take a free-range chicken. Turn onto its back and get your girlfriend to cut down either side of its backbone with sharp kitchen scissors to spatchcock it. Place on a non-metallic tray. Rub with a cut-up lemon, some course sea salt and quite a lot of olive oil. Scatter squashed garlic cloves and rosemary from the back yard all over it ( Read more... )

Before anyone else IMs / texts / calls / emails me, I will just say that yes, I am right in the flood zone, but I'm fine because (a) my house is about 4-5 metres above the river wall and (b) it hasn't breached anyway. My parents were evacuated because they are lower down and right on the riverside, so they were here for breakfast at 7am! Tom's ( Read more... )

I have just discovered that nakedgirlparts has been deleted. I'm not sure whether it has been deleted by its own moderators as a way to duck under the radar of the current insanity or whether it got caught by the mass deletion, but either way I am pissed off. It was an all-women community for posting photos in a safe, supportive, encouraging environment and ( Read more... )

Good grief, is there no safe haven anywhere from the forces of 'family values' and bible-belt-style 'innocence'? I caught up with my flist today to discover all the censorship crap and it is all so predictably awful. Someone shouts on the net that livejournal are paedophile sympathisers and what can lj do other than act swiftly to prove it isn't ( Read more... )

I haven't got enough brain to post about PoTC:AWE right now, and since I was watching it with four 10yo boys I had to turn my slashy brain off, which means I need to see it again anyway. But pleeez pleeez pleez can someone tell me in a comment what I missed after the credits? I was so busy trying to keep the kids together as everyone got up to ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, spillingvelvet!

I loved your username long before I met you, and I loved the real you even more. Have a great day and enjoy all the blessings it brings - may there be many of them.

The desks in my classroom are covered with little smears of water-based lube.

I think this is possibly a first.

Sometimes this job is just so much fun.

Your Birthdate: December 19
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