If you haven’t been trained or fitted properly for an N95 surgical respirator (though they look like the industrial masks at the hardware store they aren’t - at every hospital or bio safety lab I’ve worked at I have to go “be fitted” for the masks to make sure it will actually fit my face - I’m allergic to mouse…

There are several “tiers” of protection- Surgical Masks (the little over the ear pleated cloth deals), an N95 Surgical Respirator (a more rigid mask with a metal nose fitting bar, and often a little plastic indicator designed to create a tight fit around the face to exclude as much unfiltered air as possible) and…

My mom does “angry divorcee” AND “drunk woman who takes off her shirt” its a twofer (she has now been divorced longer than she was ever married).  I like to think I get invited either to be “The weird one who won’t stop talking about her gross job” or “The overly blunt socially awkward one who will accidentally make…

Could be worse! My family had been using an antique enameled chamber pot to make sauerkraut in for a couple decades.  And ya’ll wonder why I don’t eat that nasty pickle cabbage!

That is the most accurate description of Boston I have ever heard.

Yessss make them SQUIRM when they have to step out of their fuckin’ box seat for the ‘classic box office banger’ Opera world. DO IT.  Then soak a delicate gauze pad in their nervous tears and put it in your martini.  Its not self centered, you ACTUALLY know what you’re talking about.  And expertise is BANGIN.

Alternately the best possible way to really SLAM the boujie “I went to college in Boston, well not IN Boston, nearby” crowd is to one up them by studying the shit out of an obscure high tone genre of opera and a little known but well loved by musicians composer - Gesualdo or Baroque opera (youtube comments are a…

Alternately do what I do - spend the entire party waiting for your chance to verbally elbow drop someone who wants to run their mouth about evolutionary psychology, Richard Dawkins, or “neural” differences in men and women.  Everyone loves it when you demolish someone to the point of making them retreat to another…

I did partnered poses in some of my classes but I’m very small so I usually ended up disappointing my partner (I couldn’t really help them as much because I had trouble holding them up for stretch poses and counter weight poses and such) so I’d end up tapping out for them.

Happily, the yoga studio I went to had little tokens in a basket by the mats in the back of the room you could get (and not have to ask for) and place by your mat to indicate you wanted to NOT be touched by an instructor for either adjustment or the nice little temple massage during shivasana, and I never had an…

There’s such a massive difference between like, Christians who read the “red words” (in all the Bibles I was raised around, the gospel quotations of Jesus’ words were written in red, and the various apostles who wrote the accounts or letters were in black, the red words are the real shit), and those who pick and…

If it won’t dox you, who was it? In the older scene there were just so, so many creepy VOs who were overconfident on how bangable they were based on being the voice of X character.  I also sucker punched a producer for full on honking my (heavily faux padded) boobs like clown horns.  When he tried to complain to the…

This...is the best thing I’ve ever seen.

I have never been more jealous than when my ex husband called from a New Orleans conference for his fancy business data tool, and apparently Big Freedia was BLASTING in the background, LIVE IN THE STADIUM just fo this fancy business data tool conference and I WAS NOT THERE AND HE DID NOT APPRECIATE FREEDIA. Azz…

It’s why my mom refuses to take a DNA test, she wants to live in her personal mythos where the naturally white blonde pale Appalachian chick is actually a White Indian (her words sorry) and from there spring her mystical magical shaman powers (and the ability to join the Native American church and get some legal…

See your family tree’s more fun than mine! We’re mostly a bunch of Appalachians (except my great grandma maternal set her sights on an Austro Hungarian Jew and got him) and have the marriage record of a very early family member (1600's yo) marrying a Wampanoag woman known only as “Mary” when he was done with his stint…

But what about her sexy former USMC (but not really kinda) bodyguard side piece from “Cowboys and Angels” and because its LIZ BITCH she was like “HA! Think I just found halloween costumes for me and my husband”

What *version* as in the actual lived experience of a person of Appalachian heritage as opposed to a Kentuckian who is an outsider to the society and experience? Yeah her opinion and yours can go fuck themselves. Lit stans looking to excuse bad writing and tropes and bend over backwards to excuse their faves when they…

Vic Mignogna - dumbass didn’t even show up to his own trial and his lawyer is an insane person.  It was a long time coming too, I also had creeper experience with him which was hella mild comparatively (early twenties is a little too old for his taste, but he’ll still be a creepy ass)

*addendum because apparently I type bad on Kinja and deleted a friggin paragraph - I led a SUPER low risk lifestyle, the only parties I went to were convention parties with trusted friends, I drank very little, I tried to do everything right (while not-coping with an undiagnosed panic disorder!)
I only suspected the…