That said, I'm here for the fun candy show, and for some Max + Tristan action.

Agree with everything you've said! It's taking me back to watching Love Boat and hospital soaps with my grandma. I just wish they wouldn't show gross things, though, even for just a second! I mean, I know it's a doctor show. But I don't need to SEE the trachea stab to know what's happening there.

May I join? Editor since 1987, freelance since 2000. Thanks for the great resource!

I read "saccharine" (as satch-a-REEN) in a Nancy Drew book in 1970-something and years later heard the word in a TV commercial and connected it.

I read my local paper's endorsements for local elections.

Walk your registration in in Texas if you can, mail it in if you can’t.

I use "just about" to mean "almost" or "very nearly" (USA). I'm just about done = I'm almost done. Very nearly finished. Give me two seconds. She's just about six feet tall = She's almost, perhaps even exactly, six feet tall.

"those people"

Also, whoever she met with before the speech -- they're not the only pro-Palestinians. She met with some leaders (which, great! I trust it was a productive meeting); meanwhile, a citizen group had their own protest plan for the speech, for the cameras, for show. Maybe several groups, together.

"Come for you"? They protested on camera in front of their (hopefully) future president -- the person who will someday have some influence with those who want to build the hotels. She snipped, but she heard. She responded better the next day. She'll sound better now; they got heard. Win-win.