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The African's have a lot of fun proverbs. My favorite is one that the women on the Swahili Coast sometimes embroider into their skirts, called kangas. "He may be your son, but he sleeps with me".

Ravel's Bolero is one of my favorites, but I have a huge soft spot for George Gershwin. I love Ella Fitzgerald's album of just Gershwin songs, but in terms of just instrumental pieces, Rhapsody in Blue is hard to beat. I will listen to this song while studying and it always just reminds me of the city. Watching people running around Downtown Boston has the same feel as listening to this song. Rhapsody in Blue (The Fantasia Version) Part 2

Mark, the only straight thing in your stories are the masts and the women, the men are about as straight as a boat tacking into the wind. Score for being able to make innuendo out of maritime terms.

My bet's on Mono, but in true soap fashion a complication ensues and causes his kidneys to fail.

While the contextualization of the earlier CAP novels was very important, I feel like the more we get to know and love the characters the less we need it to understand them. I would love to see what happens with Wade's political career or how Brad and Robbie deal with aging and empty nest syndrome. Even if we lose the fun and amusing historical side notes or fun cameos, its really the characters that keep us coming back obsessively every other day to see when the next chapter is posted.

Count me in. I find that my obsessive need to read the stories ebbs and flows, having Belvidera present at the same time as Bloodlines is throwing me off kilter. Having to actually wait patiently for the next chapter doesn't go over so well.

I agree with paya, when one escalates things and then when the going gets good you pull the emergency break those of us in college have a name for people like you...tease. No one likes a tease, Mark. Sure when the next chapter happens its always good, but still. We are left holding our breath looking like this .

I don't have a top 5, but How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the Peanut's Christmas episode are my two favorites. I bought a Charlie Brown Christmas tree for my apartment this year and it never ceases to make me smile.

So true, paya. I don't know how they still have energy for all of it with playing hockey and school. School alone leaves me exhausted most nights, I can't imagine adding in a sport. They must be chugging energy drinks like mad to do all that they do. Though I totally understand Wade's not wanting to have sex during finals. As a library hobo for seven days every December and April, I was impressed that he even made it back to the dorm. The fact that he wasn't jacked up on caffeine and looking like Gollum by the end is just not fair. Now if only I could get through my midterms in less than a thousand words instead of the next 18 agonizing days.

How do you not freeze? I swear Black Friday is the time for me to stock up on winter clothes. Every year I forget how cold Boston is and buy more and more layers.

I can't decide if it was a nice break from the drama llama or just one of those chapters that need to happen to move the story along. After such a great chapter, its understandable to be let down, but my irrational mind craves greatness. I want my cake and be able to eat it too.

Surely seven different men are enough for him?

I went and got some things, but was continually thwarted by the resurgence of plaid. I am not a lumbejack so for plaid shirts to be the sole type of long sleeved button down shirt was reason enough to be back home in bed by 10am after only 3 hours of shopping and an hour of driving around.

I vote for this option. I think Cody needs a harem of men... a husband per day should be enough.

I concur, send him to Utah or better yet have his plane crash on a desert island in the South Pacific where the only inhabitants are wild animals. I don't trust Brian around any other humans.