I hadn't noticed until this Dior ad, but JLaw looks a lot like Lady Mary.

Alright, I have seen this woman in so many of the fashion week posts and I find her so incredibly stunning. Who is she?!

You know us grad students so well ...

In my field (an academic social science), fathers are actually compensated more than either childless men or women, and mothers are penalized, controlling for length of tenure, publication record, and parental leave. I believe childless men earn slightly more than childless women, but I can't recall if it was a…

I really like Lauren Miller's gown! I absolutely adore the color and the bodice is interesting but refined.

I just got a gift card from the prof I taught for last semester for an independent book store in town and I'm so excited to buy a fun book!

I miss Borders. Borders #1 (flagship store) was in the town I live in and it was so sad to see a major Michigan business fall apart. They are only just now getting ready to open new stores in that space.

I like having a made bed because I like getting into a nice tight bed at night. I also have a cat, so I prefer to not have her fur all in my bed, just on top of it. Also, we have a ladybug infestation in our apartment, so it keeps them from falling into my bed (again, just on top of it).

What about getting partners in on this? I am a bed-maker but I get up hours before my boyfriend and don't feel like making it right before going to bed (especially since one of my titles for him is "destroyer of sheets"). I would love to do some of these but don't really want to do them all on my own since I already…

I'm just responding to the Riverside aspect of this post since I'm currently home in the 'side for Christmas. Anyways, IE!

I'm with you on the 2013 needs to go away and OMFG, people seriously say that? Like, a good family friend found out she had very early stage breast cancer this summer and I was super grateful she found it early and was able to get rid of it right away, etc. but it's never a GOOD cancer. It's cancer! Even if it's…

A foam roller. Basically a self-massager for your whole body. I've decided this is what I'll be buying for myself for my birthday because I really need it.

This is sort of what I'm anticipating.

I got two spools of twist-ties (each is a single long twist tie with a little thing to cut it below each so you can make them as long as needed) from my boyfriend's grandpa. I thought that was pretty freaking weird. Boyfriend's mom got me two variety packs of tiny batteries. I'm sure they'll both come in very handy,…

I have a ridiculously over-reactive immune system (asthma, lots of allergies) so when I'm sick, I'm really really sick. Minor cold for someone else leaves me with a 103 fever. I'll usually try to soldier through because I don't have the time to be out of commission or at half capacity for days at a time, but once I'm…

Vad kul! Yeah, I love Scandinavia. If I could get my parents, brother, and boyfriend to move there I would totally live in Sweden forever. Unfortunately, my parents equate snow with death. Hence, they live in Southern California and will never, ever leave.

That sounds awesome!!! Though probably less fun for your cousin :-P

Mine too! It did not produce a love of vacuuming in my teenage years as the article assumes, but I can't handle unvacuumed floors since entering my late 20s and early 30s. I also remember some pretty gnarly fights between me and my cousin Kyle over that and/or the lawnmower that was essentially the same thing during…

This is totally my plan if I have sons (the first, at least, is already named by boyfriend and me). They will get so many cleaning and cooking toys because they need to know how to be self-sufficient people and, also, because those vacuums with balls that pop when you move forward or backward were the shit.

I want Khloe's lipstick in that NYDN picture. It wouldn't look nearly as pretty on me (I don't have her lovely skin) but I want it nonetheless.