My opinion of her just skyrocketed. Good for her for speaking out.

Sigh.

To: RBG

So, that lead photo of Columbia just got me, a Barnard alum, thinking. Columbia is famously and hilariously obsessed with their lawns, particularly the South Lawn pictured in the photo above. The red flag on the left indicates that you are NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES supposed to WALK ON THE LAWNS. DO NOT. JUST DO NOT…

Just had my Mirena put in Friday!

Maybe this will finally put to rest the rumors (and I mean rumors that circulate among doctors who then give bad advice or refuse to provide IUDs to their patients) that women who haven't given birth can't have an IUD. There's no better way to cause a woman to give birth than to irrationally deny her access to the…

The 5 day wedding "weekend" in which the bride handed me a grocery sack and ordered me to collect 250 perfectly shaped river rocks.

I didn't have an opinion on Nicholas Sparks until now, aside from thinking his movies and books look like things I would not enjoy, but this:

A cursory googling reveals that Buddy ended up mating with a female penguin. I'm not sure about Pedro though. I'm at work, so I'm trying not to have too many "gay penguin" searches show up in my browser history.

My husband's family fat shames me for not being compliant with their fat shaming of others, their discussions of all the weight they've lost, their diets, etc. I just listen and go "Ok", and don't offer how much weight I've imaginary-lost or what diet I've been doing, and when they say something like "Look at that…

I think she is looking for "compliant", not "empowered".

+10000000000000000000000000000

I work for the government (not federal) and I am so not surprised. I mean, I'm surprised people are using their work computers because seriously, what is wrong with you? but not surprised that they're bored. My job is insanely, cry-face-inducingly busy from about October to May, and then sooooo dead over the summer.…

No. No they are not.

I love how all the commercials have the blue background too. Is all of this actually going on inside a Viagra pill.

This is true, and the same goes double for tweezers!

Pie. Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it.

Maybe some people "date down" because they didn't realize they were dating down until they were neck deep in the relationship.

Having dated a republican at one point, dying alone doesn't seem so terrible now.

Under Kira's supervision, according to the source, pledges in the incoming class were called names, berated for their perceived physical flaws and imperfections, and made to perform physical tasks to the point of bruising and exhaustion.