I'm running my first half marathon tomorrow and am excited and a little terrified! I lost 80 pounds two years ago and made a resolution (so corny) to do this run. I know I am physically ready, but still battle some of that old negative self-talk every now and then. Anyway - woo hoo!

"and he's a senior" clinches it for me.

Sorry, this is long, there are two break ups and they're not really bonkers or funny, but I just wanted to write them down.

Reminded me of this

This isn't funny but fuck it...

Going up, my parents were were divorced and never communicated directly. I got bounced back and forth between them a lot. Always based on what my mom needed. Fuck my social life or grades or stability. If being a parent started to get too hard, she'd ship me off to live with my grandmother or father. She'd get lonely,…

Oh man if that happened to me I would be pumped because it meant I didn't have to feel guilty or hurt anyone.

I was in what I thought was a pretty great relationship with a cool dude. We lived together, and everything was happy and good. We were in the happy honeymoon phase of the relationship, which is what makes this even more strange. We both worked 9-5 jobs, and one day we were texting each other as usual throughout the…

Mine was brutal. I spoke about it at London's version of The Moth. It was the only kind of catharsis I could afford ->

My freshman year of college, I made the mistake of dating a very serious born-again Christian. (I was raised both Catholic and Unitarian Universalist, I'm not sure what he was doing in the relationship either.)

One day I overheard a girl yelling at a boy on the (pay)phone with the same name as my boyfriend. Being a one stoplight town, I was curious and asked her his last name. Turns out, she was yelling at her/my boyfriend. We hitchhiked to his house (with a super creepy dude) and upon knocking on the door, discovered he was…

I once had a huge breakup fight with my boyfriend over hamburger helper. He wanted me to get up and get an additional fork instead of sharing his and for some reason I refused.

I know a lot of people like this, people who signed the petition but did not vote him out because they questioned whether or not it was morally right to overthrow a governor who was elected by the people. I have no such qualms.

I don't know if it's politeness or not, but you've (unfortunately) hit the nail on the head. Walker's recall failed because the people of the state seemed to think that his offenses weren't bad enough to merit a recall.

Ugh, Scott Walker. Nothing brings out the aggressive-aggressive out of the normally passive-aggressive midwesterner like that guy. People always like to say that WI and MN are 'purple' states but it's only because bright blue and bright red are right next to each other.

While I'm not going to help librarian1 get out of the grays, "baby killing fiends" is my favorite thing we've been called today. I really do love abortion, so much that I support legalizing them until the 200th trimester or so. Later if other people are in danger from the stupidity of the fetal adult.

The Dems badly miscalculated with the recall attempt. They did not have nearly enough time to ramp up a new candidate of their own, so they trotted out the same guy that had just lost. There was also a significant portion of the state (something like 30% IIRC, across party lines) that felt it was inappropriate to…

Support Mary Burke's campaign & get this hate-filled gargoyle outta there! Even if you can't vote for her, send money! Campaigns always need money:

During his initial campaign for governor, Walker made it clear that he wanted to outlaw abortion even as a life-saving measure. That's right. He thinks that women who are violently hemorrhaging because their pregnancy has gone hideously wrong should be forced by law to die. Because he is a piece of shit.

Every time I see a picture of him I feel the overwhelming need to punch him in his smug face.