It's my neck that cracks. It's horrible, this grinding, crunching noise. Really pretty.

I actually showed up at work before 9, for a meeting that just got cancelled. Bleah.

The thing that has been giving me most grief is my shoulder. My knees go crunchy-crunchy, and have done so for a while, but they only actually hurt if the weather is changing. They're actually a pretty good predictor of rain.

In other news, I have today off! Woot!

My right knee cracks something awful, and so does my right neck/shoulder. But it is my hip that hurts. It think so many years of retail/grocery/working backstage did me in early.

I feel like everything over 35 has been really downhill, so if at 40 it gets worse, I am not sure I can take it!

I was just reading a fic, and I came across an "eggcorn"- "scotch free" instead of "scot free". Normally those things bug me, but this is sort of hysterical, and frankly makes about as much sense either way!

Cass- those sharks (bull sharks) that can hang out in rivers can CLEARLY live in a lake.

Man, I creak all over. It's a sad, sad thing.

oh thank god I'm not the only one with the panic. Allyson, you got all my duck nods this morning.

Best wishes to you all. I am about 3-6 days behind in this thread, so I'll quick post and then catch up a bit later.

I am in instructor Hades this week because of grading AND because one of my students committed plagiarism. Yay. We do not have set procedures for dealing with plagiarism and so *I* need to decide what to do. $15 later and a new account on turnitin.com (and 2-3 hours worth of googling) and I found most of the places in which the student plagiarized.

I met with her to discuss the issue and I am not certain whether I will give her an "F" in the class (an "F" in the assignment would be the same as failing the class since it is the final paper) or if I will ask her to rewrite the paper, take a test on plagiarism and use of APA style.

Re: shampoo.

My hair is curly and kinky and and a lot of shampoos doing do my hair any good. For those of you having problems with the no 'poo method, you may need to change your conditioner. A lot of conditioners have shampoo in them anyway, and your hair may not be connecting with conditioner. I wash mine about once a week because any more often than that and my scalp will rebel. But I do put some product in my hair in between washes.

When you look in the ingredients in your conditioner - what would it say if it also has shampoo in it?

le nubian, have you seen the recent discussion of plagiarism here: [link] and here; [link]

Tiny dragon [link]

I'm in a somewhat different panic, because I really feel like I don't have time left to fix anything.