Does anyone know where I can find a clip of the scene in The Body where they are having Thanksgiving Dinner, and Anya says, "Yes!I am going to barf, too!"? I say it a lot and want to send it to someone for context, but all the youtube clips of The Body that I can find seem to cut out the credits and that flashback.

I have a question for people. Does anyone here have progressive or bifocal lenses? My eyes have turned the corner to middle age, and I need reading glasses in addition to the regular ones. Especially with all the reading and grading I do, it's a must. I just need to decide if I want to go the two glasses route (reading and regular) or the progressive lens route.

I have progressive bifocal glasses, but I never wear them. I just don't like them. I have two eyeglass prescriptions, one for reading and close work, and one for watching tv and driving. Zenni makes it easy to have multiple pairs. When I wear contacts, I use reading glasses for seeing close-up -- just magnifiers, not script. Eventually I'll probably give up and wear the progressives.

So beth, I am a bit worried about your point that you don't like using them for long reading stretches. Grading is pretty much a long long stretch of reading, with lots of breaks for laundry, snacking, etc. I was thinking switching glasses between tasks would get onerous, but if the progressives aren't great for long reading stretches, maybe that's a bigger issue.

I may have posted about this here before, but I have a recommendation for a lazy/mindless yet useful task, especially interesting for people who are into food or crowdsourcing: Help the NYPL transcribe their collection of old menus here: [link]

Thanks, David. I hope (and expect) that is the way she would see it too.

Also, I was never baptized, so I am not sure how I have a godmother.

Yeah, I think it's a term that gets used a lot of different ways. M was raised Catholic, and to him the word "godmother" has a very specific religious meaning, which is not the meaning we intend (since we won't be raising our kids Catholic, or in any other particular religious tradition). My parents told my brother and me when we were growing up that our aunt A and uncle G were our godparents, by which they meant that A and G would raise us if anything happened to our parents. That isn't the meaning we intend either. What we're trying to do is encourage, and formalize, in a way, a special relationship between T and our children. That's the way in which many of my friends who have recently become parents have used the term, but I don't know how common that particular meaning is.

Y'all, I had a lovely smonster + amyth + Calli + non-buffista but buffista-adjacent and of-the-nerd-tribe friends! Yummy sushi and I can report that while NC misses our smonster TERRIBLY she is clearly made for nawlins and it for her and she's looking and sounding fabulous and happy there.

So beth, I am a bit worried about your point that you don't like using them for long reading stretches

I have small glasses -- the reading area is not very big -- which is something that can be adjusted . When you get them - you need to talk to you eyedoctor about what you do

and I have never worn my glasses for reading, but I think I could use them now esp for things like graphic novels.

Help the NYPL transcribe their collection of old menus here: [link]

I keep meaning to do that! Old menus are fascinating.

What we're trying to do is encourage, and formalize, in a way, a special relationship between T and our children.

I think that's a lovely thing to do, and I think a lot of people do it that way now. My Aunt Kay is sort of my unofficial godmother in the same way (she's my mom's best friend from college, not a relation, but I've always called her Aunt Kay).

Y'all, I had a lovely smonster + amyth + Calli + non-buffista but buffista-adjacent and of-the-nerd-tribe friends!

SO JEALOUS! But so glad to hear that a wonderful time was had by all!

I have god parents - I don't know them well and they havent been a big part of my life - but they have been a big part of my parents life - so they are important people in my parents life that aren't family. I've met them a few times as an adult, I like them