Speaking of immature funny word things, I was at a restaurant last night and behind the bar, they had containers of all their fancy bar ingredients labeled with homemade labels, from like a label-maker. Anyway, the container of star anise read, in large, all-caps letters, STAR ANUS. We laughed.

I live in downtown Atlanta and I’m part of the (very) local government system through which a land use project gets approval from the city. The liquor license approval process goes through this system, as well. The Escobar tapas lounge was a HUGE FIGHT from the get-go, as the operators were being super unclear about…

Dude, that’s ... not how it works. Like at all.

Yvonne Orji’s dress is the best thing I’ve seen this year. I love it so much. I want it and then I want to wear it everywhere.

And also the first time I heard it, I definitely interpreted the drip sound as “all you ever do is make me wet,” which ... changes things.

Making fun of House Hunters is one of life’s greatest pleasures. That said, I want to applaud HGTV for being inclusive and representing what society actually looks like, in that they don’t present white, hetero couples as the standard, and frequently feature LGBTQ people and couples, and people of color.

It’s been in my head for a few weeks, ever since I heard it on the radio for the first time. That guy has a great voice, and I like the stereotypical Cyrus voice, and it’s a pretty solid song. I just hate that stupid drip sound effect.

Yaaaaayyyyyy! I need something to watch on Netflix, seeing as how I just finished watching The Office all the way through for the millionth time (The Office and Pride & Prejudice are the little bubbles I retreat to when the world is terrible), and I got through Santa Clarita Diet in like two days, and the rest of the…

But it’s cool to imagine what kind of life would have evolved there!

I really liked it when I was watching it, and I agree about the female characters. I wonder if it’s on Netflix or Hulu.

I mean, most of what she wears is fucking boring. Part of which is her role, part of which is that I think she’s just really basic.

I know a Bianca who is SO NICE, but she’s from New Zealand so the same name rules might not apply there.

Last year or the year before, I believe, the free and reduced lunch program launched a pilot to expand free and reduced price lunch to all the students in a school if something like 70% of students at that school officially qualified for it, which is great. I’m pretty sure it was a federal pilot, so here’s hoping that…

I guess I started to notice distinctions in maybe middle school? We were probably lower-middle-class. Until I was 6, we lived in fairly spare apartment complexes, and then we bought a little starter home in the suburbs that I lived in until I was 16. It was an adorable little house, and I loved my neighborhood, it was…

Oh, Kenna. I watched like the first two seasons or so and then gave up. Also I wish I hadn’t researched the actual young Mary Queen of Scots and Prince Francis. Learning about Real Francis as opposed to TV Francis just kind of killed it for me.

Is Reign still on? Some of those costumes cracked me up, to be honest.

Oh, I’m totally comfortable with where I’m at. I got a job right out of school, which was great, but I knew it wasn’t a career, so I worked for several years until I knew what I did want to do, long term, and then I went back to grad school to get the degree I needed to get into the field I wanted. And now I’m happily…

I actually think beginning a new career trajectory at 35 is really cool. My mom totally changed industries when she was in her late 40s and she ended up loving it and being really good at her new profession and she made more money (she went from working in school systems to working in marketing for a software…

Thank you! I used the day as an excuse to wear my largest, loudest earrings to work.

I’m turning 33 tomorrow and I really only now feel like I’m settling into an actual career and that I have a sense of a trajectory that I could actually accomplish. Before that, it was just getting some education and trying to figure out where I fit.