And just a few other potentially “offensive” things I experienced at Duke within required academic environments, and I am a more informed person because of each of them: actual porn viewed in a documentary film in a film class; vivid descriptions of women being raped by objects in my Women and the Law seminar; lots of…

A little late in the game, but I’m a Duke alum and here’s what I posted on FB:

I used to care. I worked my ass off and got to a place where I was making 6 figures for one of the most well-known non profits in the world. I did great work then was pushed out of my position after five years, along with the rest of my team, by one huge bully and incompetent management. And the organization had an…

Yea, I need to sell mine. It’s been sitting in a drawer for 7 years and I’m now remarried. Would pay for a decent vacation. I’m thinking of keeping the wedding band for our daughter (ex’s and mine). Is that weird? Not necessarily to wear (actually, I wouldn’t want her to), but as a keepsake? I’m keeping one small…

Yay! This is my favorite foursome, even tho Adam and Blake are jerks.

I’m all set for Thursday night: rhetoric bingo (heavily featuring “unborn children”, “freedom”, and “Benghazi”), nerf darts to throw at the tv, and lots of liquor (still finalizing the drinking game - abortion mentions, creepy smiles or “’Merica” would get me drunk way too fast.

It’s intended for real hot chocolate. You put in warm milk and melted chocolate and keep it warm (you can actually make it on the stove and put in the pot to keep warm). The “stirrer” is a milk frother. It gets it the top a nice bubbly, frothy texture. I don’t have the pot, but I have the frother.

My mom may still have one of these (different shape). Bread warmer, right? I swear she still dragged it out just a few Thanksgivings ago.

Tell me more of this sauce making in tiny food processor witchcraft

A tiny food processor. I though it would be great for herbs, half an onion and stuff like that. I have used in twice. My knife does just as good a job and I don’t have to clean 5 little parts.

Star Trek is all about exploration and establishing PEACEFUL relationships with “new worlds and new civilizations”; The Prime Directive (do not interfere). The original series featured an interracial kiss in the ‘60s. Everything about this show is democratic, open to new ideas, and tolerance. In other words, the exact…

I’m on marriage number two and what’s been really hard for me is realizing that even with an objectively much more awesome, nicer, kinder, more in sync partner, I’m still not all that happy. I know he deep down cares about me, but the everyday annoyance almost always get in the way. Why doesn’t he eat dinner at 7 like…

Same! I always think back to that not great Julia Roberts/Richard Gere second movie (Runaway Bride maybe/?) where they make such a big deal that she can’t figure out what kind of eggs she likes because she was always eating what her current guy liked. Its laid on thick in the movie, but it hit home. I struggle with…

Very nice. We do have the Verizon Center for b-ball and hockey. Not sure how long Nats Park will last, but I hope for a while.

I’m going to be this commentor: It’s “Nationals Park” (with an S) - home of our baseball team. #gonats

I currently have a Minion lego set on my desk at work. Last week, I took the kid to Build a Bear and we BOTH made our own minions (I got Stuart, she got Bob). I saw the movie on Friday. I wore a minion-printed scarf. I will not apologize! (ok, I have to admit I will be a tiny bit happy when all the marketing dies…

My sister sent me the book as I was going through a divorce - thinking that it would be uplifting, empowering, go find yourself after divorce type thing, I’m sure. I couldn’t get through it after the way she treated her husband and the end of the marriage (I was her husband in my divorce situation). Yes it’s very hard…

The worst: I was there this weekend. Tourists AT GROUND ZERO, smiling, with selfie sticks. I came this close to slapping a teenage girl who was taking a selfie right on the memorial - all smiles and checking her hair in her phone before the pic. Just so sad and so disrepectful.

He doesn’t have a safe or armed guards down there, so I doubt it, but I’ll check. Momma needs a trip to Paris!

Then my husband has about 3000 friends (i.e., Magic cards) in the basement. No wonder he spends so much time down there...