My high school physics teacher would pair lab partners based on who he thought should be dating. He was a great teacher but man, he was also a total creep.

This scene always makes me teary. It’s so sweet and genuine.

Dammit I miss CA.

It’s like a secret code. I’m always down to hang out with folks on team Chaco. Either we already have a lot in common, or they can teach me something awesome.

Is it the skin one? This ad makes me cringe every time it airs.

Oh, my Chacos definitely get pretty ripe at the end of a field season, but they have yet to beat out the Teva funk.

I looooove my Chacos. I only wear them in the field or on vacation, so I think I have a sort of Pavlovian relationship to them. When they’re out, it means I get to go outside and have some fun.

Oh my god, the Teva smell. Why does that happen?!? My Chacos have been through hell with me and they have never smelled as bad as one summer kayaking with Tevas. I couldn’t even bring them indoors.

There are no words for this.

I was that girl! I’ve always had a rather complicated relationship with my underwear. I came out in middle school and from that point on only got the Hanes 6-packs of underwear while my sisters got fancy lacy stuff from VS. At the time I really internalized this weird message of “you’re not pretty”, which 25 years…

I love this thread! I have some interviews with Hadfield saved on my phone for when I need some motivation on my not-so-good days. I’ll be adding this to my reading list!

This sounds fantastic! Adding it to my reading list.

It still makes my heart ache that Rakoff is gone. His stories, and his voice, were so wonderful.

Speeeeed Walker!!!

And the example is landing in Palm Springs to go to JTree for New Years? Finding drugs would be as easy as picking up some water.

His head popping up out that coral is fantastic.

I’ve had a rather difficult couple of days and just had my first good laugh at the thought of approaching a unicorn and being gored to death because I’m not a damn virgin. What a way to go.

I used to work with a lot of former park staff and one told me a story (possibly apocryphal) about a group of tourists asking the rangers at Yellowstone “when they let the animals out”.

I don’t think this is anything to be embarrassed about. I came out when I was in high school and had tons of people ask me if I’d had sex with another woman yet which, first of all is crazy rude and none of their business and second, isn’t the point. Most of my friends were pretty sure they were straight and they…

I had a housemate who invited my dealer (not his, mine) to my birthday party. He learned a nice little lesson about meddling in stuff that was not his business that night.