only one favorite female character????

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It appears that V has been renewed for a second season. I'm a little surprised, frankly, but not displeased. The past couple of episodes have improved (lots of Bechdel test-passing in the last one, yay!), and although it still has some not insignificant overall problems, I will be interested to see what they do with a second season

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I get really annoyed when alternate correct spellings get marked off. When I was in the third grade I was a little obsessed with the Chronicles of Narnia and read nothing but those books, over and over again, all year long. I had a British spelling edition. So I started using "favourite" and "colour" and "centre" because that's how they were in the book--and proceeded to get my first B of my young life, in spelling. And even then, I was annoyed because that spelling was correct, it just wasn't American spelling. (And I'm not sure my teacher knew it was correct anywhere, which was part of my annoyance.)

Most of the time I can sort which spelling is which, and most of the time I use American spellings. But I had to use Canadian spellings in my dissertation (a requirement), and I try to remember to use them when I'm teaching, and it's finally worn me down to where I sometimes use them without thinking. And then I notice, and it becomes a decision whether to go back and change it or just leave it, and then I get frustrated. Ah well.

And Laura. Oh, Laura!!!