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A new thread

Anonymous requests:

Report where people have been getting 'intriguing' Google searches to their website. Or how often we have been checking to see whether that has been occurring (*sigh*).
Or anything else. Please dear God, anything other than what this thread has deteriorated into.

Sure. Open thread. Newbie questions about APA, interview scheduling, or whatever. Have at it, girls and boys.

~zombie