So on Grantland, there is a review of the new Van Halen album today. It includes a super-long footnote (David Foster Wallace would be proud) that includes this shocker - when David Lee Roth left Van Halen, before Sammy Hager was hired, the band considered Patty Smyth of Scandal as DLR's successor.

Would that have been wonderful? Awful? Both?

Bill McNeal wrote:So, this is pretty much an escort service that lets middle age dudes bang college girls, right?
http://www.philly.com/philly/living/139060959.html

p sure the the guy in the picture's name is not "Brandon Wade"

old men seekin younger women to have sex with on the internet who want money in return. if that is not prostitution i dont know what is. scum bags.

You guys are just scared by the competition.

Though when I clicked on the link an AARP ad popped up, which sort of killed the mood.

I see this is causing some consternation so I will do my BSG civic duty and go undercover and investigate this and report back. That's the kind of team player I am.

Would it have been a dick move to post this pick in the Tess Ellen thread?

dick move to post that anywhere

so you're saying it made your dick move?

Obligatory "Why do you even know who that is, hmmmm?" post.

Seems legit

"Sadly,"

like, man, I wish those dinosaurs were still around

WheelsFellOff wrote:Obligatory "Why do you even know who that is, hmmmm?" post.

Stumbled on a article on this person and was shocked that it was a dude. Tried to find the girliest photo of him.

Werthless wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:Obligatory "Why do you even know who that is, hmmmm?" post.

Stumbled on a article on this person and was shocked that it was a dude. Tried to find the girliest photo of him.

granted you would've gone the way of hillmd if they ever found out, but you could have possibly had about a good quarter of bsgers rubbing one off to him.

Yeah... no

CFP wrote:This is a big difference from what I had said last week, but I am truly considering quitting student teaching. I have been here for two full weeks and part of a third, and I just don't see how I am going to get through this. I've had underlying anxiety issues for a few years now and this is making it 10x worse. I don't want to do any of the work, I don't want to talk to anybody, I just don't seem to care about anything. I'm not sleeping at all and hardly eating in the mornings, although my appetite does seem to increase during the day. I just don't know what to do. I talked to my parents last night and they told me to fight through and not quit, and I understand where they are coming from, but I just think I can't show interest in something or fake this any longer. I'm about ready to go home tonight, relax, wake up tomorrow and shoot out some e-mails to my co-op and advisor to tell them I am done.

This sucks.

stick with it - what one said. My st experience was awful and my early teaching career wasn't easy but there isn't any other way to learn. Good luck, I considered quitting and almost quit right away but it's turned into a nice career.

Stick with it to the end of the course and at least get the credits. And then decide if you want to continue. Many teachers and student teachers have a moment or moments where they feel they can't continue. If you can fight through it, you'll feel a lot better by the end of the semester.

I had my days where I would come back from student teaching and I would just break down and sob. And I consider myself pretty level-headed. I eventually found out that even the most well adjusted and talented of my friends and classmates who were in the same program would do the same thing.

Keep at it. Constantly refine and make improvements. And understand that you're not going to ruin your students. That was a big fear of mine too, and I didn't understand how overblown that fear was until after I was finished.

Add another vote in there for sticking with it. Right after college, I lived with 4 friends, one of whom was student teaching. The rest of us were in our first jobs, going out to bars constantly and being general jerks. My friend who was student teaching was a really confident, fun-loving guy, but while student teaching he shuttered himself in his room the whole time. The rest us would make fun of him for being lame, and eventually the one time, he basically told us that he was scared to death getting in front of the class every morning. And if he had a beer or two the night before, he was almost certain that he would literally shit his pants in front of the class from the nerves. Like I said, he was not the type of guy you'd expect to hear having that type of anxiety. He stuck with it, got the hang of it and now, by all accounts, he's a pretty awesome history teacher and totally loves it.

I'm not going to say that happens with everyone, but I do think you'll regret quitting if you're that close.

325 million powerball, 200 million cash payout today. I'm sure JH already has his ticket.