Excellent! I lived for a time in eastern Washington state, so snow is not a totally foreign concept. The program I am applying for pretty competitive, so my fingers and toes are currently crossed (which honestly makes typing a bitch...)

Buffalo State.

I’m the same way honestly. It’s the unknown that is most terrifying for humans, which is why horror movies hide the monster for so long. Our brains are great at rationalizing and planning. (ex Oh God, it’s a 10 foot tall cockroach! Well, at least it’s not a 50 foot tall cockroach!).

This is wonderful to hear! I am applying to grad school in Buffalo (I am an endlessly stupid optimistic person)

That’s not a real measure though. It’s impossible to recreate a race between Trump and Sanders because Trump didn’t run against Sanders. There were no negative Sanders ads, no months upon months of Sanders under a microscope. It’s easy to like someone who has never gone under the hellish scrutiny of a presidential…

Dude I watched the Martian election night. I needed to believe in a world where everyone worked together regardless of race or nationality. Also a world where NASA had a real budget...

It’s been three days and he’s already starting to walk back some campaign promises. 3. Days.

You misunderstand. I don’t think he’s quite stupid enough to do anything impeachment worthy. I think he is dumb enough to turn the party against itself. The tensions within the Republican Party trump exposed are not gone.

People like Trump do not change. The undisciplined man we campaigned against is the same man who is now president elect. As soon as he figures out that being president is 95% tedious meetings and lengthy briefings, he’s going to snap. He won’t have the feedback loop of rallies to keep his ego going. It will be the…

I called my cat into my room to cuddle no less than four times on election night. In other, unrelated news, my cat thinks I’m nuts(er).

Watch the PBS cat documentary. Bonus if you do what I did and make your cat watch too so she can get some proper lessons in cat-ing.

Fuck all the people who say their marriage is a sham. Look, life is complicated. Marriage is a slog. I genuinely think what he did to her was shitty, but I also think they *gasp* actually love each other and that (and Chelsea) is why they stayed together.

I hate this country. Specifically, I hate the fucking people in fly over that don’t fucking realize they’re never going to get their manufacturing jobs back. Fuck them. Because of their ignorant asses, now I get my healthcare stripped from me. Seriously fuck them. I get to be hungry and sick and bankrupt. Those…

I ordered sushi! I have been craving it since Thursday when I listened to a podcast on fish fraud. I think I had the wrong takeaway from that episode.

“. To me, the silly thing about this is that people are being asked to pay this premium for a dish that’s been frozen and that’s best when made with fresh ingredients. “

Exactly. I think a basic understanding of cause and effect is all that’s required. Look, if my cat can learn that walking on the counter gets a scolding, celebrities can learn to not culturally appropriate.

Seriously. Can’t we just do this stupid thing Tuesday? It’s time for this to be done. Our long national nightmare must end.

What irritates me is that they never seem to learn. 1) One or more of them has an offensive costume, 2) they get shit on, 3) the offender apologizes (ish), 4) we all agree to learn a lesson. It’s frustrating that none of them pick up on what’s happening. I would really like to break the cycle one of these years.

It’s the secret to the GOP’s success this election cycle

He was, it was the Reform Party. I’m not sure if he ran under that in 92 or if that’s something he cooked up for 96, but he definitely had a party of sorts. Fun fact: the Reform Party received something like 1000 votes in 2012. Bonus fun fact: Perot is amazingly still alive. (that may just be fun for me, I had assumed…