And grow a pair! (Now with these latest developments, you can!)

was directed at brightstar by the way...

Honestly, if parents are really that concerned, they can just cut off funding these vacations, and stop paying for their kid's expenses and force them to take on a job during college. Cut the cord folks, they are in their late teens and twenties, old enough to take on the responsibility for their own support. Once the funding is cut, spring break turns into an opportunity to make money, not a spectacle.

i can't believe this even warrants a post! people are actually shocked that this goes on? rubes.

this went on in my jr. high, my high school, and yes, also in my first year law school class. undoubtably i could find out if it existed at college and in every place of my employment, if i really cared enough to track such nonsense. the funny part is that if i even appeared on these lists, it was probably in wildly divergent capacities. i could have been a dogface on one, and a hottie-boom-bottie on the other. who cares? it's meaningless. why would anyone place value in the opinion of people shallow enough to make a list like that. yes these lists are childish and immature. you can either choose to be humiliated by it, rise above it, or ignore it altogether. seriously, in terms of life, there are FAR greater humiliations one can suffer.

i attended law school in boston about 7 years later than the time frame you gave. this nonsense is without limit to time and place i guess.

I'm a record geek. I go on vinyl benders that would scandalize the most unrepentant shoe addict, and its never been the Tower/HMV/Newbury Comics people that are intimidating. Rather, the snarky condescending man-children that usually work at the independent record shops tick me off (Colony records you know who you are. Other Music in Cambridge, you WOULD be on this list if you were still in business...)

I'm not going to spend my money at a place where I'm treated like a second class citizen because of my gender. So its been flea markets and the indie shops where the staff appreciates the fact you are purchasing a michigan and smiley record along with fleetwood mac's tusk (holla Somethin' Else!). I do buy stuff online too, but sometimes mp3's are just too easy...

Its nice to know that the music sellers are finally beginning to recognize us as consumers and not contemptible annoyances, its only 2006.

I don't think I've willingly shopped in a petite store or a petite department since that ill fated trip to Petite Sophisticate as I was about to graduate college and look for a job years ago. What a debacle, I ended up looking like a little kid dressed up in mummys business suit! Oh the shoulderpads, and it took forever to find something without ridiculous looking buttons, or allowances for matronly curves I didn't have. I spent money on a ghastly suit that I hated and always managed to avoid wearing. Talbot's was no better, but at least their stuff was plain.

Unfortunately, I'm extremely short waisted, and long limbed... and a regular cut just looks all wrong, and is difficult and expensive to tailor the body as opposed to the leg and sleeve hem. I have had decent luck with Ann Taylor petites, but I'd rather not look like a clone of just about every other gen-xer who has given up the ghost on trying to find an alternate viable option for affordable professional clothing in the tri-state area. Benetton can also provide a good fit, but sometimes their suits can look cheap.

Blast.

It's funny to see how many people started down the path to bittersweet chocolate addiction via a childhood love for Hershey's Special Dark and baking chocolate. It was the same thing for me too! I'm not so keen on the Special Dark anymore because I think they have changed the formula over the years, and made it sweeter and more acidic. Actually, I think most American chocolate has changed that way. However if you do get cravings for the way things used to taste, I think that Junior Mints and Mallomars have been very consistent over the years. Other than that, I stick with the so-called foo-foo chocolates.

BFF? I see it in print way too often and I have no idea what it means.

The freshman fifteen should not be celebrated in men or in women. Where is the joy in the over consumption of unhealthy, non-nutritious food washed down with too much alcohol and then, being billed an extortionate charge for it? It was such a racket, if you lived on campus you had to buy the meal plan, and none of the options were healthy, tasty, or appealing. God, I remember being utterly disgusted by the food choices available to me back in college: fried crap on a stick with a side of salted grease and a glass of soda, delivered to your dorm at any time up till 1 AM. I couldn't move off campus fast enough.

I forwarded the whale vomit onto my partner. The other article is just re-packaged common sense and about as interesting as all those "footprints on a beach" forwards he gets from his mother. Now valuable heirloom whale vomit, that's a topic worth discussing with a loved one!