Bastet

For me, it's pretty much the only saving grace of the series (overall cast chemistry to a lesser extent, but writing or acting, definitely not - I never found those fundamentals more than serviceable). Some individual episodes - and increasingly more of them as the show went on - are so dumb I can't re-watch despite their great friendship, but in real time I kept tuning in because of Jane and Maura.

The sexism necessary to criticize a woman who wants to parent opting for adoption as the means to that in the midst of a global overpopulation crisis is ... well, I want to say astounding, and it is, but it's also par for the course. As it is equally anticipated and appalling that if a heterosexual couple opts for surrogacy, her motives and parental abilities will be scrutinized, while he's barely mentioned.

For which Jeanie rewards her by shitting all over her. I'm all in for Jeanie's lawsuit - I like that they showed the newly-codified protections of that time for people with HIV only existed on paper, as they were routinely fired under pretextural reasons with employers getting away with it due to how bias affected the burden of proof, and love her emerging victorious. But it was Anspaugh who invented the need to eliminate a position and a seniority formula for choosing which one, a formula that - golly, gee, what a coincidence - landed on the one ER staff member known to have HIV. His action was discriminatory, while Kerry's was the only one she could take under his mandate. And she was not only personally supportive, but networked to find Jeanie another job. But once Jeanie rightly got her job back, she not only never said, "Naming you in the suit was a necessary aspect of litigation, but I know your hands were tied by Anspaugh," she never even said, "Thank you." I love the scene when Jeanie quietly blasts him with "Now you know about me, and I know about you" over his appalling decision to violate her privacy that way and his pathetic defense when she catches him being to dare lecture her on not disclosing her status to him. But, yeah, that shouldn't have been his only "punishment" -- he violated not just hospital policy but state law. I did appreciate the realism in the scene where Kerry and Mark were trying to hammer out a policy that complied with new, vague, and sometimes conflicting state and federal laws. That captured the times, as did the patient warning Jeanie what would happen to her and it coming true. But Kerry got screwed by both Anspagh and Jeanie, and only the first was remotely acknowledged. And Mark skated, because he's Mark.

Last year, I'd have been rooting for the Packers out of loyalty to my friend who's a huge fan and because the 49ers are a division rival to the Rams and Seahawks (yes, I like two teams in one division). But this year I wanted Aaron Rodgers watching from home enough that I rooted for San Francisco. But I didn't think it was going to happen. Robbie Gould must have loved the hell out of getting the winning kick against Green Bay after all those years he spent in Chicago. Congrats to him! Now please let the Rams send Tom Brady home tomorrow.

Then he ought to do some of the cooking. And if you have fundamentally different diets why not just make your own meals for the most part (like two sets of my friends where one is vegetarian and one isn't) and take turns feeding the kid? (I wouldn't eat lentil noodles, either, but if a partner made them, I'd expect to make myself something else to eat, not whine they should make something different.)

The actor has last billing even for episodes in which he doesn't appear, so the character isn't going away any time soon. Unfortunately, I strongly suspect that's not because they'll provide a nuanced exploration of how Darlene and Ben learn to navigate a new dynamic where he still has a relationship with Mark and employs Dan but no longer has a romantic tie to Darlene, but because they'll just drag this relationship that won't die on and on and on. It's round two of what they did with Darlene and David, where their romantic relationship had run its course, but he was still well and truly part of the Conner family; instead of exploring the effect of those changed circumstances, they just kept on the same tired path and ultimately shoved them into a pregnancy-induced marriage (that they probably still wouldn't have let go of if they could have kept Johnny Galecki in a recurring role in this spinoff).

Can you - once the kittens no longer need her for breastfeeding, if she has a new litter she's caring for - start feeding her inside a trap, without setting it, to get her used to it, and then arm it? You'll need to have a pre-arranged vet appointment scheduled for shortly after feeding time, so she can be taken right away to get spayed, vaccinated, etc. (For whatever time she does have to be in the trap, it generally helps calm them to cover it with a blanket or similar.) In my area you can borrow traps from the shelter, and there are TNR programs who also have them available (and provide low-cost or free spay and neuter for ferals), but I believe you've said you're in the boonies where such resources are limited. Are you on Nextdoor or a Facebook group for your neighborhood? Maybe you can fundraise that way and TNR the colony one at a time. Anyway, it's sweet this one has learned the joy of sleeping on a bed. We took in a feral cat and one of her kittens (finding homes for the other five) when I was a kid, and she eventually domesticated quite impressively (especially because we had no real idea what we were doing). We could never hold her, or pet her belly, but in time we could pet the rest of her, and play with her (she had little foam soccer balls she loved, and started summoning someone to come out and throw one for her). We only had her several years before she got sick (cancer) and had to be euthanized; when my mom took her in, Jackie let her hold her right up against her chest and kiss her head.

Well, I didn't implode like I thought I might after two excellent games, but I sure wasn't very good. I only ran word pairs in the first round. I missed three in balderdash, and one or two in the others. In DJ, the wheels came off the wagon a bit. I only ran explorers (which I wasn't expecting; maybe in a first round, but not in DJ) and I didn't come close in any other category; I missed three each in symphonies and producers, and two each in the rest. And I had no idea for FJ. I could not figure out why wood would be exciting - and failed to twig to the important "supposed" part of the clue, but still wouldn't have got there - so moved on to the year, but without an area of the world, I just flailed around without a guess. But, in looking up this tall tale, I did enjoy some delightfully pointed commentary from archaeologists, geologists, and historians, so it's not a total loss to end my week.

My first office job was great, and I loved my boss and the other women I worked with (in fact, most of us are still in touch), but as the only child-free one among us, I had to point their double standards - where time to tend to child-related needs was deemed more important to accommodate - out to them sometimes. They always oh, shit, you're right acknowledged it and made things right for me when I did, but it was aggravating that I'd have to keep calling it out instead of them, having been made aware of their implicit bias, proactively checking themselves.

It took me a while to get to the rest, because I kept rewinding and re-playing his laugh when the first picture came up. I'm glad I finally continued on for: "They got Jerry Jones canceling radio appearances, and we know he loves to talk. That's how bad this is."

Yes, that's what surprised me - not so much that it happened, but that it made air rather than being fixed in post (just loop her saying $400 instead of $600 the first time, and replace that shot of the $600 card with one of $400). That's always possible, even where it's not the first clue in that category. But it was still a little odd to reach for "adjective" and then "verb", when I would think it more common for a mind to jump to "phrase" upon being prompted with "prepositional ___". When you combine "participial" and "prepositional" with those two incorrect answers, I think some of those four combinations aren't even actual things.

The phrases TS surprised me a bit, but that was all. I enjoyed Ken saying he'd watch either show about Sanford and Sons of Anarchy and My Three Sons of Anarchy. I had another great game, so I'll probably implode tomorrow night. I ran everything but action movies, 1922, and cameras in the first round, and only missed one each in those. I was hoping to run farce in DJ, as I love that genre, but didn't know who wrote The Code of the Woosters. I only ran consonants and energy biz, but did very well in the rest -- I also missed one in TV (the TS; I've never heard of either show, so I had no chance on that one), one in South Asia (it would have been more if not for a couple of very lucky guesses), and two in mystery. FJ came to me quickly - maybe because I re-watched Dances With Wolves earlier this week, so had Dunbar's desire to see the frontier while there was still any of it left freshly in mind? There was also the weirdness in the lights/camera category, where Britany selected the $600 clue, but when she got it right, her score only increased by $400. Her next selection was again for $600, and when Patrick got it right, his score increased by $600. So was the back-up camera clue really the $400 clue, which they incorrectly went to when she asked for the $600?

The host always speaks of the time frame in terms of how it has appeared on air, not when and how long they've actually been in the studio.

Same with The Police's "Every Breath You Take".

I think of it every time I select a paint color:

The cat we had when I was born weighed 26 pounds. I had no idea he was so close to a record. (He was overweight, obviously, but he also had a large frame - my parents got him as a kitten [he was born to their friend's cat] and he had big paws even then.) This is what he grew into:

Oh, no! I had no idea she'd died (of cancer, back in June). That's a shame; she was a remarkable woman. I only "knew" her through documentaries and interviews, but I liked her so much I am truly sad right now. This interview with her from just six months before she died is really interesting for how she approached competing as a middle-aged woman; she had a wonderfully honest - and safe - mindset. It's also heartbreaking to read all she had planned for her future and to know she didn't even reach her next birthday.

That's how I feel. I love Seinfeld, and I liked the finale at the time, but I thought it was a bit of a let-down. When I re-watched it later, I loved it, and I realized my initial reaction was heavily influenced by having watched the clip show right before it.

A parasite who started living - and living large - completely off his child back when she was barely a legal adult, and continued to exploit her until the writing was on the legal wall, prompting this kind of obfuscation now.

Keira Knightley doesn't make a very good anyone, in my viewing experience, but that's admittedly not at all extensive. But I've never shared in the national enchantment with Audrey Hepburn, so it's a biopic I'll just catch some time when it's on TV and I have nothing else to do, not anything I care about. I've only seen Rooney Mara in Carol, and whenever I come across her name, I first think of Kate Mara, whom I've seen in several things, and have to correct myself. So I have no sense of her ability to capture the spirit and countenance of an iconic person.

I got caught up in something else and didn't even remember this was on until 9:20, so I will have to wait until it's available on the ABC website to watch the bulk of it. I doubt I missed much, though. "It's not really goodbye unless you're prepared to kill me" was funny, and it was nice to see Joe Walsh - the jam session at the end was fun even if it was random like that time they brought on Blues Traveler so John Goodman and John Popper could perform together. But, ugh, this wack-ass Aldo/Harris relationship and Darlene making an idiotic jerk of herself over Ben - again - are not exactly things that make me eager to catch up on what I missed.

I have no idea, but I'm glad you finally did. That was one of my favorite films as a kid, and I still adore it to this day. Myrna Loy and Cary Grant have terrific married couple chemistry (very much products of the time, certainly, but delightful), and as much as I like all the obvious moments of that, I love just as much the end of their cramped apartment bathroom scene when she pats him on the butt to get him moving. It's actually "Residence of Mr. & Mrs. James Blanding's", but, yeah, it's both sexist and improperly punctuated. Wayward apostrophes are a particular peeve - years ago, I found one of my childhood coloring books, in which I had crossed out an apostrophe that didn't belong in a caption about "duckling's" - so that always jumps out at me, too.

Same - life is well and truly overwhelming when you're dealing with depression, and (through no fault of their own) people who haven't dealt with it can't truly understand how even the simplest of things are sometimes so damn hard or even impossible. If she was at a stage of it where she couldn't start college, she couldn't start college - be it Harvard or a JC. Better she take the time to tinker with meds, therapy, and behaviors to find how her condition is best managed; with her lucky enough to have housing and economic security in the interim, let that be her job for a bit. It's tough, though, because being reliant on her family gives her that freedom to evaluate and learn how to function, but they also simultaneously enable and shame her. (It's tough on them, too - there isn't a hazard-free roadmap through the ongoing journey of depression for loved ones any more than there is for patients.) I hope she's indeed ready, and it goes well for her. I also hope she gets to do it off camera.

She kept turning him down, but he would not respect her "I'm not interested". (And Louise had the nerve to lecture Jackie, as if she was obligated to reciprocate his interest, instead of - if she was going to get on anyone's case about their personal business - telling her brother to back off.) Then a few episodes later they wrote her as being into him, perpetuating the sexist (and dangerous) myth that if you refuse to accept a woman's rejection and just keep turning up long enough, she'll eventually say yes. And not much later they added indebtedness to their new dynamic, when he loaned her money for The Lunchbox. I mostly just go with how he/they have been written this season, since they seem intent on keeping him around, but when he does something shady like not telling her about the ex, I'm reminded how much I hated him in the beginning.

The 600 TS surprised me; that poem gets asked about a lot on this show, so I would have bet money at least one of three people who studied to compete would know it (good thing there's no actual consequence to my predictions on whether something will go unanswered). Dimitri's "I've always wanted to say this....two hundred" for the world leaders DD made me laugh. As did Ashley's response to Ken asking her if she's a fan of Legally Blonde. I got everything right in the first round, and with more clues I factually knew than usual (there's typically more figuring it out from the wording of/hints in the clue or guessing). One big exception: I had never heard "keeping it 100". (But that's the number that seemed most logical for meaning "absolutely" something, so I guessed correctly.) In DJ, I only ran big, so I was not on fire like I had been, but I did well, missing two each in Mexico and cemeteries, and one each in the rest. And then FJ was an instaget; I only like a few things about the film, but since it's on TV all the time, I've had numerous occasions to watch those parts. I love Clueless, and have seen The Paper Chase a couple of times, so that was easy peasy for me.