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Log. I just had to comment and leave my own loggy stories... I have definitely slept through dorm fire alarms (alarm in my room), crazy thunderstorms, someone lighting off a firecracker underneath my aparment window, but what takes the cake for me was a story like dustinstruckmeyer... I lived above a cupcake shop with a very large, single sheet plate glass front window, and one night someone(s) decided to throw a huge log through it. There was a big "boom" and shaking in my dream, but I didn't wake up until my roommate came into my room to get me.

I immediately thought of the blog Jaws Wired Shut, which was written by a girl who had her jaw wired shut (obviously), and had to be on a liquid diet that she could drink through a straw. She tried a lot of things, and there might be some ideas on there.

In re: VioletVeil, I've had my Wolfgang Puck stainless huge saute pan for 5 years now, and it's been nothing but awesome. I haven't had any issues with corroding. I didn't get a set, but only a single pan of the series with the hollow, round handle (like this), not the solid handle, which seems to be the more common, at least online.

People look at me funny when I do this, but I've been doing it for years. It's funny to see it come up on the Kitchn! It's a favorite of mine in the morning when I need a little caffeine (I almost never drink caffeine, so a little goes a long way). I make up a cup of hot chocolate then let my tea bag (usually black tea like Earl Grey or English Breakfast) steep in it for a while. I usually end up doing it at conferences and at places like hotels, where they'll have tea and hot chocolate mix set out with the included breakfast.

We don't keep a lot of random food around the house, so there's not a lot of "hmm, what can I make with this?" that goes on. I have a bookmark folder full of recipes and a bunch of cookbooks, and I look through those, find a recipe, buy the ingredients for that, and then cook it. Because there's only two of us and usually recipes feed 4-6, we get 2-3 nights out of one dish (and we don't see anything wrong with eating the same thing twice in a row). We end up going shopping every 2-3 three days, but we rarely buy anything not on the list, so we don't have any budget problems. Almost everything in the kitchen has a meal it's designated to go in, so there's never anything to "use up before it goes bad." I like cooking complex meals, so throwing stuff together rarely happens with me; even meals that I don't use a recipe for have a lot of research that goes into them.

I'm pretty sure you can get small, non-commercial snow cone makers that work fine. I had a small snow cone maker as a kid, and it worked great. I don't remember anything about the brand, but it was a personal snow cone maker; it might have been hand powered (with a crank), but hey, it's greener that way, right? Anyway, I used to make snow cones during the summer and sell them to the people who came to take horseback riding lessons on our farm.

Um, what? You're comparing nonnative exotic snakes like boas and pythons that have escaped or been released, which, as d4kk1tt3 mentions, are not likely to be a threat to humans, and NATIVE snakes that have been living in the region for longer than humans have been here. NATIVE. Their presence is natural and expected. Yes, copperheads are venomous (not poisonous; things that you eat that hurt you are poisonous, things that bite you or sting you that hurt you are venomous); so? They only deadly in very rare situations. Many venomous snakes are attracted to areas with humans because of the rats and vermin humans and their trash also attract, so it shouldn't be too surprising to see them around us.

The Benaki Museum is an often overlooked museum in a neat old mansion in downtown Athens, and it has a ton of cool art and artifacts. Worth a trip, definitely. Also wander around the national gardens, which are beautiful in the spring.

I hate generalizations.

Just because I'm young doesn't make me wasteful, materialistic and demanding of instant gratification. Just because I shop at Ikea doesn't make me these things either. Just because the furniture is inexpensive doesn't mean it won't last. Just because you bought a used piece of solid wood furniture on craigslist doesn't mean it's better than something you could buy at Ikea (I'd rather buy a piece of furniture from Ikea that is PERFECT for my purposes than something from craigslist that is not).

Also, I really want that skirt.

Nice. I was just lamenting that I hated getting phone books, so hopefully I'll be able to opt out of delivery. And I just started getting those factory warrenty robocalls... don't know if the do not call list will work, but here's hoping!