The detail that stuck with me for 20 years now is when she washed her hands with dirty pink soap in the train restroom so she could drink water out of her hands . And how she'd never make fun of her mother for carrying that plastic travel cup again after that.

I loved the Super Special where they went to summer camp. And I liked the one where racists moved in and Claudia freaked out because she had never been the target of racists. And Jessi is like, "What? This is like, my life." Or the one where Stacy's NYC friend gets all bitchy and proto-Gossip Girl and is basically…

Enderqueer—the first thing I thought of is Ender's Game.

I'm going to start defining sublime this way. Dear students, imagine you are having sex with a Klingon. That is the very nature of sublime.

I personally love the Home Depot. Its aspiration window shopping...like Sephora I suppose. I can't afford to go all out at either store, but I like looking at all the shiny things in each. In HD, I love the lumber, how it smells and all that. It reminds me of childhood as my mom and dad would often go to the…

+1. Reminds me of my student today in class who said that Barack Obama came from a poor background. Not all brown people are poor.

Oh she's the best. Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To are excellent short story collections. One of her novels, Veronica, is good as well.

That is amazing.

Ok this will be crass: My first thought. Well, honey, he can't just cum in your hair for it to work...

Lebron James is a professional who gets paid a lot of money. Missy is forgoing that professional status/sponsorships in order to be in the running for college swimming scholarships/competition. These college swimmers typically have better careers and return strong in subsequent Olympics. She's not doing it to be a…

Missy doesn't do home schooling. She goes to regular high school and trains on her own time. That's why she likes to still be a part of her high school team; she's part of the community.

My Quasi Cat.

My Quasi Cat.

I got pretty tanked last night. I have a friend who constantly filled my glass with champagne. Oh dear. I had a headache before going to bed and a woozy night it was. It's been a long time since I've had a hangover. Strange and kind of nice just to lay around today watching Gossip Girl—which is terrible but…

Heartily agree. I've watched my friends post their Christmas haul videos and pics on FB recently and it made me want to throw up. Not their own personal hauls (though there was some of that), but these supposedly adorable pictures of their infants (under a year, they find their boogers and smearing shit more amusing…

Yes, let's all be hyper literal.

So basically the NRA's solution to school shootings is the plot of Kindergarten Cop.

I was sexually assaulted my freshman year, first semester, at New Mexico St. U. I was on the most prestigious scholarship so I appealed to the scholarship coordinator for a leave of absence (so as not to lose the scholarship) and was told, in writing, that the University would grant me the leave in the hopes that I…

Wow anon does calorie math. I know I'm just blown away by all this new info. LOL

My first college roommate was relieved that I wasn't one of the skinny girls (thanks a lot) and then proceeded to steal my clothest. She outweighed me by about 50 pounds and I wore oversized stuff. Anyway. She was awful pushy in general.