Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I've written and erased this like seven times now, it all comes out so awkward. I've been in the deep dark pit of despair of feeling like your entire world is shit and that everything would be better if you didn't exist. But it's a lie. Depression lies to you. They're sweet, easy lies. But it kills.

Can I just say that everyone is super glad when you "turn around and walk right out?" Your friends probably hate going out to restaurants with you. Unless they're just as awful.

A tip is something extra? Wow. You really don't understand squat about food service, do you hon'? In 43/50 states servers are actually paid less than minimum wage. Please do educate yourself snookerpumpkins. http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipp…. Enjoy eating lots of server/cookstaff spit. I'm sure you're used to the…

"some deserve zero and a snotty note on the receipt."

OMG NEXT WEEK I WILL DO FICTIONAL ANIMALS WHO FUCKED SHIT UP LIKE A BOSS

But it worked in Star Wars because nobody wants Luke and Leia together, everybody's rooting for Leia and Han. It was a good* way to prevent a love triangle. Here, you're apparently supposed to be rooting for them to get together, despite the incest. Squicky.

Alison Bechdel herself has said that a narrative can pass and still portray womankind in a shitty/damaging way, and that a narrative can fail without really doing any harm; everyone I, at least, have talked to about the Bechdel Test, and most of the things I've read that mention it, and again, Bechdel herself, all…

The way I (and I think many others) see it, the Bechdel test isn't really meant to be a metric for how to judge an individual movie. There are plenty of (arguably, of course) feminist movies that don't pass it. It's more meant to illustrate an overwhelming trend in how women are portrayed in movies overall. As other…

Suckerpunch passed the Bechdel Test.

I think the fact that it's easy to pass makes it pretty interesting that so many stories simply don't pass it. I'm not saying it isn't bullshit, I'm just saying it kind of shines a light on how little we value the stories of women and how they interact with one another.

Percy has a girl he likes....I can't remember the outcome.

Yes, yes, good good (no, really). But...

I made it to about the 20 second mark and then

If I was Jennifer Anniston I would periodically walk around with a fake baby bump just to screw with people

...displaying the number 31.

I'm turning 23 tomorrow with no solid plans...

A good office manager is definitely worth $70K, even here in flyover country. A good executive assistant (which is something substantially beyond a secretary or receptionist) is worth even more.

So, because you were underpaid, other folks should be underpaid also?

I don't get that argument.

There isn't a finite pool of money out there - that person getting $ 70,000 isn't the reason you only made $ 38,000. The fact that you badly deserved a 150% raise is independent of that.