Okay, Hil, you're inspiring me. I have other work work to do, but it can wait and the house is a total wreck. I wonder what I can get done if I just do that all day?

Plus I might be having kids over tomorrow, so it should be at least reasonably presentable.

go, hil! As someone who hates to clean, I feel your pain. I only do it when I'm having people over.

Seriously, I hate middle schoolers.

I can't tell you how angry it makes me that I have to comfort my kid on the next to last day of school because he found out that people are writing "freak" above his picture in the yearbook. Little bastards.

Oh, Barb, that's horrible. I don't know what to say.

I'm sorry the little bastards are doing that. Kids can really be sucktastic to each other at times.

Ugh Barb. Kids can be so heartless.

Poor noodle. Kids can be such little shits.

Ugh. Poor kid.

Thanks guys-- I mean, I try telling him that today's freaks are tomorrow's successes and did he really think that people were kind to Steve Wozniak when he was a chubby twelve year old? Not to mention that some of the best people I know, his father included, not only were considered freaks as kids, but still proudly fly their freak flags because it makes them some of the nicest, most interesting people as adults.

Cold comfort, I'm afraid when you're twelve and the universe feels as if it's ganging up on you.

Well, I did the easy bathroom-cleaning stuff -- my mirrors are now spotless. Next step, sink. Then toilet, then floor.