i like you steph, a lot, which is why i’m letting you know its patronus - the number five is her patronus.

It’s hard, no one wants to believe the bad stuff. But to be fair, healthy people do just die of heart problems at randomly young ages. My sister died of a heart attack at 34 (and father at 53, which I guess it super young, but still). It happens. I think half my hometown thinks she OD’d, because everyone just rushes…

My BIL just died in his early 40s. He was watching TV in bed before work. My best friend is waiting for a new heart. The only underlying cause is heart disease.

Had my dad not already been in the ICU for another thing when he went through alcohol withdrawal, it likely would have killed him; until then, I didn’t realize how tough that process is on the body. Although I never watched True Blood, I thought Ellis did a fantastic job as Shinwell, on Elementary. Very sad loss.

I know nothing of the Fox Club, but I’d guess it wasn’t too long ago that its president, with surname “Skarzynski”, wouldn’t have been accepted as a member...

Is that you, Gloria?

I’m not sure if this makes me a feminist but I believe that women have just as much of a right to be snobbish elitist douche bags as men do.

Nobody calls Arthur “Arthur the Aardvark.” That’s like saying “Madonna Ciccone.”

Well, that certainly sounds like a disproportionately bitter response. Bad day? Need to vent?

I once saw the job title “Family production” on a resume with “produced two healthy children” as the duties on a resume’s timeline. It made perfect sense and wasn’t cutesy or apologetic. It worked pretty well imho.

Although being a SAHM is a difficult job, if I was hiring and someone put all that stuff on a resume, I would give it serious side eye. All parents have to deal with the kinds of things you describe, not just those who stay at home.

Your last paragraph ignores the fact that there are many, many people who manage to parent while working full time. If your “gold” resume lands in front of one of them, you’ll be laughed at heartily while being denied interviews.

Last summer I moved to go from a 3-hour roundtrip commute from South Bay to Orange County to an ~8-minute drive to and from work, and that’s if I miss all the lights.

I mean, the only reason that I tend to make sure we all eat at the same time when we’re home is because I want my goddamn kitchen to be cleaned in fell swoop.

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/13/406243272/im-from-philly-30-years-later-im-still-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-move-bombing

technicalllllllly it’s Pilot Inspektor.

Apparently it’s not unheard of for black kids to get names like mister, lawyer, and the like. I guess it’s a way for it to sound like they’re getting respect, even though they aren’t getting that respect from society.

But you would also have certain ethnic names not getting approved. If the U.S. had a list of approved names, I’m sure my obviously Black American name would not be on it.

Sir is also a word of respect that many people refuse to use for a black man. I can see the idea of naming a black male.