What a great piece; thanks for the link. Dropping blou is about to be my new favorite phrase for getting/going topless.

Yay for mentioning Holly Van Vost! I had the good fortune to meet her at New York Comic Con a couple of years back and she was an utter delight to talk to.

I'm so sorry you had to go through this. My estranged uncle (who had custody of my siblings and I after our parents died) threw all three of us out of the house on multiple occasions (until rather recently, my sister, the youngest, had spent more holidays outside than in), but no, we all ran away.

I didn't notice that initially. You just made my morning. :D

Your llama eating popcorn gif warms the cockles of my cold, bitter heart.

I'm so sorry you had to go through this. I lost my little brother to suicide in October, and it's one of those things— there's just nothing for it. I've gone through a couple bottles of wine myself.

Seriously- when I was in HS I remember they would tell you how many days each quarter you could not dress and still get an A, so I would just take that many days off from PE every quarter no matter what.

The Nerdy Mr and I call it "clutching my pearls," mostly for the giggles it invokes when other people use our euphemism in its more traditional sense.

Right? I don't think he was even making minimum wage off of us terrible feminazis.

Amen. I was on GT for over a year before I got posting privs. If this is even halfway true, this dude is just bragging that he has no life and he tried to take advantage of a group of folks who try to be kind to each other.

No offense taken. And I should reread Marx. It's been like 10 years.

You take jobs for exposure to get noticed by a team like Oprah's. She's got that level of exposure and doesn't need them as much as they need her. This is sad, sad, sad.

D'aww, thanks. I've been going by it for a long time, more elsewhere than here. My significant other and I do video production as The Nerdy Duo, so I adopted this name for separate things, but to still be connected to that body of work.

Some days that totally happens. But I do love my scrub tops.

What a good dog he is! And I love his name! (though I admit to bias here, having a rescue pup named Cheddar who I sometimes ask "Who's so queso?") He's very lucky to have such loving humans to embrace him, foibles and all.

The no pocket thing drives The Nerdy Mr nuts, because I'm not big on carrying a bag. So if he hands me his wallet or phone or something, I'm still carrying it in my hand 20-30 minutes later. I started wearing tailored scrub tops just to have some damn pockets.

Considering there are a few statisticians who lump everyone after the Boomers together as Millennials, maybe they are.

Thank you for pointing out that the students requested it. That's the kind of detail that gets easily overlooked.

I think at this point in the day, I just want to know who it is that holds the control of her sexual functions and genitalia and how she feels about that.

Seriously, I would hope that everyone would be a gynecist, advocating for ownership of their own body parts.