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What's the best new TV series this fall?

Glee of course.

GLEE - Teaser: Single Ladies

What never fails to make you laugh?
Submitted by BeautifullyBroken.

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If you had to teach something, what would you teach?

Wow. For a short period in my academic career, I was all set to go off and study to become an English teacher. Looking back now, I think it'd be very hard to me to teach that. I have been able to read for as long as I can remember. I never struggled with reading or spelling or writing (much; writing has its own struggles, for certain, but it comes more naturally to me than most people). And I honestly think to be a good teacher, you need to be able to see how hard it is for your student. And since reading and writing come to me like breathing? So instinctual that I can't break it down how to do it? I think I'm better off not having followed that route.

I think I could teach someone to cook though. It's something I feel strongly about but have had to teach myself a lot about so I know how to break it down into parts, how to strategize when it's not working out.

From Mommy.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Put in a note with your total in the subject

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen X
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams +
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee X+
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne X+
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell X
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis X+
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë X
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë X
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger X
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame *
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens X
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott X+
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck X
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez *
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl X+
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson x
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen X
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen X
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald X
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh *
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell X
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens X
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnet *
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck X
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens X
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding X
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar *
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley X
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez *
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot *
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

President-elect Barack Obama is being sworn into office today. Where are you watching the events of this historic day unfold? 

I'm at home and planning to tune in just as soon as Sesame Street ends (at 10, when the real stuff is supposed to begin anyway). We'll celebrate tonight with my husband breaking into the last of the Obama soda we have from the campaign (none for me - no caffeine till June when this baby comes out). I plan to watch as much as possible today and have high hopes that even with KTG around and chatty and demanding to be played with at all times, she'll settle in and watch. Cuz our girl loves her some Obama and generally says, "shhhh! Obama!" when he comes on the television and then watches him.

I'm so excited about today. I'm so excited that the last 8 years of frustration and feeling like we are going nowhere are finally over, unbelievably. And that while he's far from perfect, Obama's inspiring so many people to be active and seek change.

To hopefully someday, create outfits as simple looking, classic, and adorable as these.

http://grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.com/2008/10/grosgrain-mini-store-opening-and.html

In the meanwhile, check hers out and maybe you could win, too? If you do win and don't have a 2T-4T skirt wearer in your life, I know of one who would look quite stylish in these garments...

In this economic climate, not all employers are able to give raises. What perks would make you happy in lieu of a raise?
Sponsored by Microsoft Small Business.

A raise would mean I get paid for my work. ; )

Perks that would be nice: sleeping past 6 a.m.; eating my meal without having half of it stolen from me; the chance to talk to someone on the phone without an argument/yelling NO NO NO/being distracted simply because I'm on the phone

What's your definition of home?
Submitted by NayNay72

Home is where my books are unpacked. It used to include my cd collection too, but most of that can travel on the old iPod now so Home is Where My Books Are.

I've come to terms with the fact that my life doesn't really leave room for me to have as many blogs as I try to maintain. When I had to eeny meeny miney mo them out, this oft-neglected home on Vox lost out.

I'll still be doing the blog for my daughter here on Vox (that one won the whole shebang in terms of contests for my time).

But until we get that 25th hour in the day I've asked for, this particular blog will remain quite silent I'm afraid.