PrivateTim

There are a lot of careers for J.D.s besides being "lawyers". Most people in business affairs in the movie/television business are J.D.s and most never took the bar. The same is true for a lot of agents, sports and entertainment agents. Institutional investment management firms employ a lot of J.D.s as do business offices of universities, import/export companies, hospitality and real estate companies and more. Don't think that to have a J.D. means you have to be a lawyer. If you can get a concurrent MBA, do it.

Freakin' A who says it ain't a happy ending? I am tickled to death that Gathan gets to have a normal college experience without some high school girlfriend back home for him to moon over. I still want Will to fall for Alistair. The classic story of the intellectual and the "brute". See Will with someone his age and in tender moments. Someone who would give Will the loyalty he didn't find in his hunky phucks.

Very, very sad that this is the final chapter of PMS, not that I care a lot about Gathan, he is okay, but I did love the world through Will's eyes, but I also realize you couldn't go through Will's 9th grade year, week by week, but I was looking forward to seven or eight more chapters and seeing some of the characters at HW developed. I do like how Gathan and Kristen "ended" because at this point it really will be the healthiest thing for the both of them. I do get a sense that we haven't seen the last of the Zach character and hope we haven't seen the last of the Alistair character. I'd love to see him reading Keats on the beach while Will surfs Thanks Mark, not just for PMS, but for all the books in CAP.

Cool chapter, I guess I read too fast to pick up any of the errors because I do notice them. I guess the one question I have is about how accepting the nurse was. In small town coal country, I would think people would tend not to be so accepting. It is still the Bible Belt and even among the college educated I can imagine lingering prejudice. It wouldn't raise an eyebrow in a hospital in Los Angeles, but in the South, it seems in the smaller cities it is still an issue. Obviously the story is just beginning, we still have to find out who gets murdered (better not be the Judge ) what happens with the bully, why Timmy is being weird and what happens with Joey's dad. Do take your time though Billy, we'll wait.

Vandy is such a cupcake they have sugar spreckles on their uniforms. Every team in the Pac 10 (now Pac 12) has won or shared a conference title in the last 20 years. Newcomers Utah & CO each won the championships in their old conferences the previous ten years. Vandy last won a conference title in 1923, MSU in 1941, Arkansas in 1989 (SWC), South Carolina 1969 (ACC), Kentucky in 1976, Ole Miss in 1963. The conference is so unbalanced it is a joke. You are right though, Vandy has vastly improved from 2-10 the last two years to 5-6 this year. Since 1960 they have had FIVE winning seasons.

Right... when your non-conference opposition is Troy, GA Southern, Western Kentucky, Northwestern State (what state? where the hell is NW State?) and the like and you play them at home, you are going to win easy and big. And then when your conference has cupcakes like Ole Miss, Miss State, Vandy, and Kentucky, teams that haven't won an SEC title in 50 years (80 years for Vandy) you are going to win 6-8 games without even trying. Try scheduling BCS conference opponents, home and away and stop playing IAA teams and see how hard college football really is.

Now that would be an interesting topic.... how older gays are treated in their communities. In my experience, some what limited to West Hollywood and the Bay Area, other than the guys who like "daddies", the gay community I've been exposed to is very youth oriented and older guys (50+) in clubs in WeHo just get crap and derision from the younger (under 30) guys. Those of us in the middle just keep our heads down. We remember being young and now realize old happens.

Please.... as if a gay man is ever going to let his hair go gray... it would be more like justformenauthors.org

Mario Batali? Love him too.

Enh. Sorry, but for playing flute, give me Ian Anderson.

I don't know what role, but we need to get this guy cast in the CAP miniseries. Nick Krause from "The Descendants", an okay movie and George Clooney has never looked better.

That is why I find that FedEx AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Auto Repair ad so funny and I so don't miss phonebooks.

So Lacey, moving to the theoretical, what if someone had complained or if you had been roughed up in the boys bathroom, would using the staff restrooms have been an amenable solution? And to you think MTF or FTM makes a difference? In other words, are girls more likely to be uncomfortable than guys?

No actually I was going to school in the UK and my sister was going to school in Austria at the same time and every three weeks or so we'd meet in a European city for a few days and we just fell in love with the university atmosphere of Heidelberg

So Lacey, did you use the boy's bathroom in high school? No hassles, no comments, no one complained?

MMM, when you live in Southern California, our Costcos carry Mexican Coke, yummy Mexican Coke made with real cane sugar, it is like drinking a candy bar! And two thumbs up for Döner kebabs, L.A. really needs a Döner kebab truck or street stands, love it, love it. And Elisabeth, did you your, "Herz in Heidelberg verloren"? I know I did

Cool story. I am anxious to see where the bully JT figures into the story (the repressed homo?) And since the intro page talks about murder, who dies? Joey's dad? JT? Timmy? Although I am always anxious for new chapters, take your time, write and rewrite and get it the way you want. I've been waiting for over a year for Dom Luka to give us a new chapter of With Trust

When ever I come across a story like this, one that is caught up in the echo chamber of the gay blogosphere or gay media is go find non-biased, or as non-biased as possible, websites to read the story. I read probably 15 different accounts of this story. Here is one quote from one of them, "Dionne Malikowski, 16, a transgender student at the school, said she believes she should have the same rights as any student to use the bathroom of her choice." I can't say that I knew a student has the right to pee in a restroom of their choice? So actually, we all know they don't. Boys use boys restrooms and girls use girls, I've never heard of the option to do otherwise. The most interesting aspect to me is, why is this coming up now? The suspension was over a month ago and it is just now hitting news sources? Yes Chase.

No Dionne still has her male member, she isn't a transsexual, or at the article didn't state so. I don't believe she is seeking reassignment surgery.

Who says the school doesn't recognize their transgender status? In fact the school explicitly does recognize their plight which is precisely why they allowed them to use restrooms normally reserved for faculty. The most dangerous place for a transgender student on a campus is in a bathroom. Dionne created the drama by breaking the rules that had been established to keep her safe.

The entire article was a loud and opinionated article. Dionne and "Kurt" were not banned from using the restrooms all the other students use, they had the option of using the restrooms that biology dictates. Dionne, a male biologically, chose to ignore the accommodation from the school of using the faculty restrooms and used a woman's restroom. The suspension was for a man being in a woman's restroom. I don't find the suspension out of line.

My thought is this topic belongs in the Soapbox, not the Lounge.

Mmmmm, loves me my glühwein! I also love the beer and ales from Belgium, Flanders red ale is my newest obsession. What I liked the most was eating animals we don't eat that commonly eat in the U.S., hare, reindeer, wild boar, goose, etc. In Switzerland I loved raclette, but it isn't in every region. And although everyone talks about French pastries and bread, I loved the pastries and bread in Germany. Lastly, Chocolate of course, they have great chocolate in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and you don't buy it from the supermarket, you get it at specialty stores and it is amazing. I know I said lastly last time, but this really is the last thing, I also love the supermarkets in Germany (well actually in any foreign country), but shopping is so fun with the mix of different and familiar products.

The numbers are way off, not sure where they came from. The article says Ohio State had 3.1 million fans in attendance at football games which is impossible. Even at 105,000 per game a 7 game home schedule is 735,000 at every game a sellout. Any time someone uses the word "extrapolate" in trying to prove their point, I roll my eyes.

From yesterdays Newport Harbor victory over the Wolverines.