“Drought” and “draught” are actually not the same word.

Also, this specific part of her “reaction” is actually part of her job, which is journalism. You can’t criticize her for treating Trump with kid gloves, and then forgive this specific instance of her treating Trump with kid gloves because it’s protected under her womanly right to react how she sees fit to gender…

I really enjoyed it. The boy I'm seeing lives in the UK, and I'm in DC, so it feels like Iceland is just perfectly placed for us to see each other without having to travel too far. Loved the people, the long days, the landscape, all of it. We're thinking of going up north this winter to see something different (we've…

We stayed in the “art apartment,” which was a little way out in the suburbs but was perfect for us (I was a bit concerned about having enough space, because I like the boy I went with but we don't know each other very very well and I didn't want us to be on top of each other ALL the time).

I can’t recommend it highly enough. I actually added an extra day to my holiday (the boy had to go back to work) and would have stayed longer to do more solo exploring if I could’ve found someone to mind my cat.

I regularly get Airbnb’s in Brooklyn to see my friends, and they’re both cheaper and better-located than hotels (I can be near my friends but still get away if I need to and sleep in a real bed, not an air mattress on a friend’s floor). I also just got back from a week in Iceland with a boy, and we rented a whole big…

Considering he cut his hair to act in a movie about the evacuation of Dunkirk, describing the style as “Hitler youth” is really ludicrously tone-deaf.

A large print of this painting is hanging above the sofa in my father’s living room, and has for many years. It replaced a print ofthis graph detailing the loss of life among Napoleon’s army during the 1812-13 march on Moscow. I like both quite a lot, but have been informed that both myself and my father have weird…

I can’t believe I just added a fucking vacuum to my Amazon wishlist (previously - 100% books and sex toys) but that looks like exactly what my need for my incredibly dusty wood floors.

I can’t believe I just added a fucking vacuum to my Amazon wishlist (previously - 100% books and sex toys) but that…

I come from a Popeye’s family, literally the only time I’ve ever eaten KFC is outside the US. It’s fine, but if the US version is WORSE then it must be a fucking horror. The KFC in my neighborhood in Prague got me through bouts of homesickness (because food is the only thing I really miss when I’m living abroad…

I think it’s also consistently shocking to people who don’t know better exactly how little hospitals are obligated to do for people who may or may not be able to pay for treatment, and that’s leaving aside cases where neglect and breaking of the few paltry rules that there are take place. I’ve actually seen it said…

There is a requirement that hospitals and ERs not turn you away if turning you away will cause you to die. They aren't obligated to make you better or provide any other care. The fact that the woman was still alive to be arrested later is proof that she definitely could have been turned away as a not-critical.

I agree, and will add that until Five Guys is open until 2 right next to the highway exit into my neighborhood, for optimal late-night just-got-home meals, there will always be a place for fast-food burgers (luckily, my highway-exit fast food franchise is a Wendy’s, which I feel is the best of the big 3 options

To be fair, my first dead-serious thought when I felt it was that someone dropped a bomb on DC. I’d never felt an earthquake before, and I distinctly felt the wave of it move through from the back of my house towards the front.

This earthquake is the reason I learned you DON’T go outside during an earthquake (I grew up in DC so it’s not like I had cause to learn before) - any debris that might fall off the building will then fall on you. You’re better off making for a load-bearing doorway or getting under a table, although of course for this…

The whole look needs at least 2 fewer things happening. Personally, I’d lose the ruffles and the lipstick, but the shoes could also definitely stand to be something - nearly anything - different.

Considering that, minus the Knowles ladies, damn near everyone who DID attempt the theme wound up looking tired and done-to-death, I can’t say I mind.

I asked my parents to take me to see Phantom at the Kennedy Center for, like, my 10th or 11th birthday. So you weren’t the only one.

I think I actually need my thumb to hold down my index finger. I must have weak-ass phalanges or something, I usually aim for the insouciant Molly Ringwald style.

Is that... just her smile? Because if so, that’s a terrible thing to have as your natural smile. And I’m an aficionado of the weird natural smile - I personally find Lena Headey’s “mouth turns down at the corners” natural smile deeply charming. Poor Mary Pat’s stuck with a rictus of horror which, while appropriate for…