Noooo. As a librarian, please, for the love of god, NO.

A walk-in 40... I'm crying. I'm crying for the server. I'm crying for the host and bussers who had to put that table together. How does a group of 40 people not have a single person in it that says MAYBE THIS IS A BAD IDEA AND MAYBE THIS IS RUDE.

My therapist told me that "stop crying" is one of the most cruel and borderline abusive* ways to handle a person who is upset, exactly for that reason. Feelings are always true no matter what and to suppress or interrupt them is very harmful. You can be upset for a stupid reason, but you're still upset and that's just…

Ha, ha ha, haaaa. Try being a female scientist half way to a Ph.D in plant genetics, trapped in a conversation about GMOs at a party with some white guy with dreads. The layers of insult and irony in this scenario, which is somehow a fixture of my life....

About the only time I see this phenomenon being discussed in popular culture-albeit obliquely— is in horror movies, one of the biggest arbiters of our fears in modern times.

A few years ago, my friend loaned her car to her sister. The sister, for some inexplicable reason, left a cube of butter on the dashboard - in the sun. The butter melted and ran into the heater vents in the dash. My friend's car smelled like rancid butter for about a year.

When he came, we had sex

That is not how this metaphor works.

I made it six years on my last mirena. Glad to know it can last longer, I kinda figured it could.

We sent out our invites using paperless post, and while I was still fiddling with the design of our save the dates, I saved it to come back to it later. Feeling lazy, I couldn't be bothered to type out "save the date" and just put "STD" as the file name instead. When we then sent out the emails, paperless post used…

And that's the biggest bullshit part of this.

As a college educator, to see FERPA abused in this way is disgusting. The law was one of several policies from the 1960s and 70s that ended en loco parentis at universities so that students could be treated as autonomous adults and hold their schools accountable. Not to mention, it gave administrators and professors a…

This didn't happen to me exactly, but it's still pretty awesome. So my aunt was getting married (c.1982), a few years before I existed, and her wedding color was a light mauve. She picked out nice mauve invitations with dark text which were surprisingly elegant considering it was the early 80s. She gave them to her…

TW: Unpopular opinion.

Big scraggly beards are gross. Faces are nice.

I was once in a "fancy" Chinese restaurant in Chicago for my birthday and they had just waxed the floors. EVERYONE was falling down. Servers, customers, everyone. It was bizarre and hilarious. The management was losing their minds over how many meals they were comping. I wiped out before I even got to my table. My…

I definitely thought it was a joke because to me it was so obviously blue. Like a major trolling...then my husband said it was white. I yelled at him not to mess with me (laughingly...not seriously mad), but it took a bit for me to realize he was for real. Luckily he's super calm and dgf about much. Then I was…

I found the hoopla and sheer passion of people's responses to the dress fascinating as a possible teaching tool for discussing the interaction of fact/physical reality and perception. I still think that the people most freaked out or hostile about the color of the dress are those most uncomfortable with the idea that…

I'd like to emphasize her point on how ridiculous it is to treat virginity as a sacred thing...it can be the trauma of sexual abuse even worse when your parents treat it like it's that important and you "lose" it. Sure, it's not your fault that you "lost" it, but you still technically did. The only reason we should be…

this just makes me want to watch Secretary again.

Are horse dogs okay?