I know this isn’t the point, but those are roses. They’re not Magnolia flowers, unless “Magnolia” means something different in the south.

I cried last night for the first time in a few months and realized I’d forgotten how good it feels to just let it go. Having a good cry where you don’t have to reassure anyone that you’re ok, or worry about your makeup running or cleaning up your sob-snot feels really, really excellent. It’s like an emotional massage.

That’s not OK. Your school is required to accommodate you and can’t just declare a switcheroo and say “too bad”. I know challenging this stuff is a PITA but your school needs to know that those accommodations are not optional.

Oh man, I am aces at public crying. Public transportation really brings it out in me. Airports, BART, Amtrak; I’ve done it all. Perhaps my most memorable was in a grocery store a week after my partner moved out when my eyes just spontaneously started leaking while I was in the checkout line. I wasn’t sobbing, but the…

That lip sync was awful. I booed at my screen when they weren’t both sent home.

I think you and I would get along splendidly.

I have arranged my entire life so that I can wear flat shoes with excellent arch support, so I was horrified when I was invited to a black-tie wedding a few years ago. I went out and bought a pair of damn heels, practiced walking in them around the house and was feeling pretty good until I got to the wedding and…

anti-fast-food Agnès Varda

My partner and I of 12 years split a little over a year and a half ago. At first when it ended I was pissed and blamed him, even though it was clear that our relationship had been struggling for a long time and we had some significant conflict around really important stuff (marriage, money, family). So while he was…

That is amazing.

He was rather charming in Hitch.

It makes me really sad that so many people seem to think that scientists are a bunch of boring, dour killjoys, because “pure human wonder, expressed by adults, in a respectable setting” is pretty much my job. This kind of stuff happens all the damn time in science and it’s wonderful.

Their halloween shows are fantastic.

Once when I was a kid I cut my leg on a jagged plastic seam on a swimming toy. Every time I see one of these horribly cheap looking sex dolls I think about that. I mean, all the orifices must have seams, right? How is that not panic inducing?

That doll is nightmare material. The seam on her head looks like giant frankenstein sutures.

Jerkstore is a pretty awesome last name.

Yesssssss! My ex contacted me a few months after our breakup because he wanted to talk about how he should feel about what had happened and I was quick to remind him that that was what his therapist was for. Weirdly, that decision was how I knew I was going to be ok.

I’m a bit embarrassed to say that this was me. 12 years together, not married, I had a month to leave our house in the Bay Area after he decided he was done and my financial situation has been tenuous since then. Luckily I’ve always been a careful budgeter and have awesome credit, so my situation isn’t dire, but it…

Yesssssss! My ex contacted me a few months after our breakup because he wanted to talk about how he should feel about what had happened and I was quick to remind him that that was what his therapist was for. Weirdly, that decision was how I knew I was going to be ok.

Yesssssss! My ex contacted me a few months after our breakup because he wanted to talk about how he should feel about what had happened and I was quick to remind him that that was what his therapist was for. Weirdly, that decision was how I knew I was going to be ok.