Advice request: flying to an interview and taking a spouse with
My husband has a third interview (first in-person) next week in another state. The potential employer is going to reimburse him for his flight, rental car, and lodging.
If someone says they're currently employed, why would you call them to schedule an interview at 2:30 on a Tue?
Honestly, that just seems so dumb to me. Don’t call candidates who are currently employed and wrote: “please keep this discrete” in their cover letter in the middle of the workday! That’s what emails are for.
Not stealing
Yesterday for Christmas my new sister-in-law gave my mother one of those make-it-yourself type calendars that you can order online, with your own photos. My mom is a sucker for sentimentality, so the minute she opened it and started flipping through it to look at all the family photos, I turned and said “Now she’s…
Shhhhhhh whiny AirBnB hosts
I stayed in an AirBnB for my brother’s wedding last weekend, it was mediocre. I stayed in an AirBnB for a week in Seattle a few months back, that experience was AWFUL. I have booked and will be staying in an AirBnB in the California desert in about a month.
There's nothing moral about being clean.
Seriously, nothing. There are practical, pragmatic reasons to be clean. Health-related reasons to be clean are definitely a thing. But there’s no special morality in cleanliness.
a love poem
But really, what is up with trivia.
Anyone shop on Poshmark?
Because I kind of just made like 10 offers on shoes... and now I’m a little concerned they’ll all be accepted. WINE!
Vindication
I used to think doctors were like doctors on TV — they were all on the lookout for health problems, and if something stumped them, they’d do research and figure it out. I have discovered in my life that doctors are literally never that way. Consider this encouragement to advocate for yourselves.
Question for everyone who has had a Mirena IUD removed...
How long after removing the IUD did it take to get your period again? Did you spot at all?
Changes to AHCA in the Middle of the Night Could Strip Millions of Veterans of Tax Credits
My Congressional Representative Salud Carbajal — a US war veteran born in Mexico! Pissing Trump off right there on the hill! — has joined forces with Tammy Duckworth to spread the news about some of the most recent egregious changes to the AHCA.
There's that sense of entitlement...
What the fuck is with people? Story and venting below the jump.
Travel Question for the Hivemind: Weed on a Plane
I live in California where recreational weed is now legal. Even if it weren’t, I could have a medical card this time tomorrow, if not faster. (I don’t have one yet because I haven’t needed one.) Right now I am using weed — usually vaped or more preferably, drops — to help mitigate some serious hip pain that was…
Random Lipsense Review
I’m tired of the world being on fire and am instead going to talk about a recent makeup purchase I made, which was Lipsense.
Gargoyle
Tiny ferocious.
Curly hair in 2017, a narcissistic/diary post
The Background
Little Earthquakes
We’ve had two little earthquakes (3.9 and 3.0), and five aftershocks in between, in the last eight hours... the first one was in the middle of the night and basically right by our house—woke me up good! The second one was smaller, and around 10am.
Why you should call, not email, not tweet, your elected officials.
I hate the phone more than maybe anybody, but this is an anecdote I believe — from a congressional staffer:
Now taking your tamale suggestions.
Today my husband suggested that for family Tamale Day coming up in December we try to make Monte Cristo tamales. I am so disgusted by that idea that every time I think of it I gag, but if I can’t think of something better he will try to execute it. Help me!
This is why your friends from CA can't buy a house.
I have experienced some resistance when expressing that even though my husband and I manage to wrangle home a “decent” income we absolutely cannot afford to buy a home, and are eternally terrified of being priced out of rentals. Here is why: