My boyfriend is the same way. He cannot put anything away and has easily twice as much stuff as me in our apartment. I really liked Kondo’s book because I have lived in a much sparser environment and loved it. Having so much stuff when I moved back to the US has been overwhelming and I’ve started really purging. But I…

Wait, what? Are you serious? They would turn a child away for walking to school themselves? What the actual fuck?! In my district if you lived less than a mile from the elementary school or two miles from your middle or high school you could not take a bus. I’m furious at the prospect of having to take my…

I was just adding my personal knowledge of the situation, no fault on your part.

While I agree to a degree, the fact that this could be found out this quickly to be a fraud indicates that political science has some amount of “science” in it. The use of social scientific methods allowed us to replicate and verify (or in this case, not verify) his results. This process is much more difficult in the…

I’m in his field (not his department, but know the pool sci job market as well as a number of people who know him) and he had a TT job at Princeton. As other said, the amount of support for research you have at a place like Princeton very much ensures that, even if you aren’t offered tenure there, that you’ll be…

Sounds great! I’ll bring the ice cream and chocolate covered pretzels!

LordoftheDance and I had the same reaction. You and my bf had the same reaction. All 4 of us should hang out sometime.

It’s in the syllabus! This is why I always have the clause: it is the student’s responsibility to read the syllabus and bring any questions or concerns to me within their first two weeks enrollment in the class. For this exact fucking reason. I also don’t email with students’ parents other than saying that I cannot…

In my third year of grad school, I was driving home from church when I get a call from my mom. She’s back on the West Coast (where I’m from), while I’m in the Eastern US, so there is a 3 hour time difference, making it around 3pm where she is. As I’m driving talking about nothing in particular my mom says, “So,…

I thought it was supposed to be an omega.

I’ve been able to do some even as a graduate student. I don’t go on big, international trips every year, but if I’m going to take 1-2 weeks off, most years I just stay nearby. But every 2-3 years I actually go do something awesome. I went to Japan my third year of grad school alone in the end of February. This year…

Well ... I mean .. I have flown into BWI like 3 times.

I watched Furious 7 and it was great. The action scenes are amazing (though totally unrealistic, so you obviously have to turn that part of your brain off), it has a sense of humor about exactly what it is, has an incredibly diverse cast, and HELEN FREAKING MIRREN has said she wants to be in the next one because she…

I both want to get married and I want my boyfriend to stop his actions that solely intended to annoy me. I think I'm both of you. Does that mean I should marry myself?

Nope, not if one person is all of the animals’ favorite. My dad is that person and since he was pack leader, if he pet the cat that meant both dogs came up to be pet. It was an adorable problem.

OMG! Even when I have left my cat with friends while visiting home for a few weeks, my clothes are STILL covered in kitty hair! I keep lint rollers in 4 places in the house and one in my office and I still feel like it’s all over me.

Yeah, my fluffy cat already requires 3-4 vacuuming sessions a week (which I don’t actually do, but I need to). Adding much more and my allergies would be out of control.

My boyfriend wants so many pets and while part of me would love it, the other part of me hears my dad saying “One dog is one dog; two dogs are two dogs; three dogs are twenty dogs,” because you can’t have more animals than hands. If boyfriend gets his own cat (which I don’t see why he needs one. My cat is purrfect)…

Yeah, that was my thought. Good on them! While it is self-promoting for them (as are all their actions), this is probably good for increasing awareness about this awful history and the continuing conflicts that are related to it.

My dream is to have at least one picture on our engagement shoot or wedding day of us kissing while in handstands. I need a lot more stability before this will be possible. Good thing we're unlikely to be engaged for at least 5 or 6 months.