I am supremely jealous of the guy whose job is just to make up Dothraki and High Valyrian. Supremely.

Ah, gotcha. I was envisioning using them like giant graph paper somehow and filling each day box with notes, per the Rowling example. Your way makes more sense. :)

Yep. I really wonder whether George R.R. Martin is in a pickle like this right now - like maybe he accidentally wrote something in Book 2 that's ruining his ending, and Books 4 & 5 are the result of him trying madly to scribble his way out of it.

The tweet they copied said "the hallways in the high school" and showed a picture filled with monkeys and chimps. To me that says pretty clearly that they're not sheltered, that they're in fact positively surrounded by minority students, and that they thought it was funny to refer to those students as monkeys.

Aw, the marketplace! I forgot that our marketplace has NO RULES AND EVERYTHING'S FINE! Put some more rat turds in my ground beef! Put some more lead in my child's toys — if he chews on them, his bones will turn to adamantium!

Also Eleanor as in of Aquitaine:

THANK YOU. I once even wrote this out for a guy I worked with:

Thank God I'm not alone.

Indeed.

I was just about to point this out. If you're in the H&M site and you open the "Ladies" drop-down menu, "Swimwear" links to very slim girls, and over on the right under "Inspiration" there's "Beachwear H&M+". They emphatically did NOT use a plus-size model to advertise their general swimwear collection; they just…

Okay. So here's what I gleaned from this:

I want your old job. Weekly historical arts and crafts sounds like The Life.

In high school I was once asked by a fellow student, completely out of the blue, whether I was related to Carrot Top. This was done in a tone of genuine curiosity. To be fair, my school was/is minority-majority and I was one of maybe four redheads, but it was still a WTF moment.

If you leave Arizona off this list, it's only going to make us try harder to get noticed again.

"Eenie meenie minie mo" did not originally involve catching a tiger by the toe.

Yikes. I am trying to frame my mind around that and just...yikes.

Or how many companies ask whether their employees feel well-compensated, secure in their jobs, safe in their workplace environment, pleased with the company's maternity leave policy, pleased to be under constant scrutiny even while not at work, etc. — you know, the factors that the company itself could actually change.

That very line made me do a whole-body shiver. There's no reason to track aspects of my life that are out of their control. The very fact that they're tracking it implies that they think they will somehow be able to correct for any "less productive" lifestyle choices.

Happy sigh. Thank you.

I was just about to post the same complaint. I don't mind the different layout, but whatever's happening on Jez now makes it hard just to load a page and then scroll to the bottom. The page freaks out and is all, "But don't scroll yet! I haven't shown you this purple ad for Windows 8! Why is your Mac mad at me?…