Status report

Job search feels horribly stalled. Work is very busy. Knitting is going well. Homework is a lost cause. Parents are hiking in New Zealand. Grandparents maintain recent status quo. I appear to have fetched up at exhausted. danceboy has been instructed to research vacations, because that's miles beyond my capacity right now, but we need a vacation very badly.

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Why must teenage girl notions of self defense start with "hit him in the groin" and end with "poke his eyes out," and comprise practically nothing else?

There is not a male born who doesn't guard his groin. They expect to be hit there if they expect to be hit at all. Especially if you're not in the habit of kicking things, the end result of a kick to the groin is more likely to be you falling down while some guy holds on to your foot than it is to be anything bad happening to that guy.

Poking someone's eyes out is (a) difficult, (b) slow, (c) gruesome, (d) really hard to justify to a jury, and (e) bad tactics anyway, since your attacker can still hit you and hurt you without his eyeballs even in the unlikely event that he stands still while you grind your thumbs into his eye sockets.