Fridays afternoons can be unusually busy for Image. The section publishes more than a week in advance, so there are proofs to read, last-minute stories to read, weekend photos to assign (along with the usual endless meetings that editors have to endure).
As someone who spends most of their waking life in front of a computer, I can't help but take a couple minutes to stop work and surf on some of my fave sites. Call it a Guilty Friday Pleasure and don't tell my boss (I don't think she's reading this blog yet anyway!)
Anyway, every Friday at noon, Tell Me About It columnist Carolyn Hax of the Washington Post does an online chat with her readers. The questions range from the mundane (I hate my friend's boyfriend, what do I do?) to the sad (my mom is an alcoholic, what do I do?) to the downright scary (I'm having suicidal thoughts and have been eyeing the kitchen knives, what do I do?) Carolyn handles the questions with the wit and aplomb that she demonstrates in her newspaper column, and quite surprisingly, her "peanut gallery" of regulars often have some good insights as well.
(If one etiquette expert isn't enough for you, give The Social Graces, a Philly-based duo, a whirl. They are taking questions on our web site here).
