I'm a pastry chef. I desperately wanted to be one and I have ditched college to do it. I love my job. Pastries have always been my mother's speciality. "Oh, you failed your exam/didn't do well on your job interview/got ditched by your date? Of course you did. I expected as much, so I baked you some pastries to make…

I just love the idea that there's someone out in the world right now who could say "Please, Lord Cavendish is so formal. Call me Peregrine."

What part of this is Christopher Walken? WHAT'S THE POINT OF HIRING CHRISTOPHER WALKEN IF HE DOESN'T EVEN GET TO BE CHRISTOPHER WALKEN IN ALL OF HIS CHRISTOPHER WALKEN-NESS?!

Thats cool you see it that way. I'm half Dominican and have been to Santeria parties. I was told it was a combination of African Voodoo mythology and Catholicism. My aunts had a vela (candle) for every god damened thing. One for grades, one for their school crush, one to be allowed to go out Friday night and so on.…

Did anyone else catch this Slate piece about a woman who escaped Quiverfull? So scary:

I think her name was Carmindy or something like that. She has a makeup line now. I can't freakin' believe I know this shit. Yet I can't remember anything from the Stats class I took in college.

Don't you dare insult Clinton Kelly in this house.

When I was a kid, I asked my parents why giving the middle finger was bad, and they told me it meant "go to hell". But we were atheists, so I didn't believe in hell. So I went around giving the finger to all the kids in my kindergarten class, to the dismay of my teacher, who did not accept "it's okay, I don't…

We've always used the proper terms with our kiddo (I'm a biologist, I'm not going to call it a wee-wee or a hoo-haa or whatever). She was then told by other kids she was saying "bad words." Her teacher started to tell her not to say those and she proudly said "My mommy says those are the right words and not to use…

Yeah...I also feel like generally teenage girls don't need to be told to count calories, or go into bars with drunk adult men.

Agreed. Wanting to marry an investment banker isn't the same thing as wanting to marry someone who pulls their own goddamned weight. Yes, I'm successful and career-oriented, but I don't have the kind of income by myself on which one could support two people and a baby. Which means my partner needs to work. Not work so…

This is one of the main reasons I will never, EVER work as a hostess again. People don't seem to understand the food tastes the same no matter where you sit.

I worked my way through nursing school as a certified nursing assistant (the equivalent to the job this woman has). I went through an 8-week training course and then took an exam to obtain my certification. I worked in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and acute-care hospitals. My pay was a few dollars an…

I have just spent the summer being that girl (I'm 22, so I'm a bit more forthright about telling people where they can and cant sit but still). I worked in a 97 table (about 360 covers) restaurant, riverside location with a very narrow terrace out front - like one row of 20 or so 2 tops. It was Hell with tourists. One…

One night that really solidified my yet-to-be-verbalized decision to leave my ex-husband, we were at a restaurant and he asked to be reseated THREE TIMES. The first table had uncomfortable chairs, the second table was in some location where he could hear or sense some sort of ultrasonic noise that no one else,…

Yeah, it's bad. People will march our hostesses all around the restaurant trying to snag tables that are reserved. Or we'll be on a crazy waitlist and the place will be packed and someone will march over and park at a table that hasn't even been bussed and reset yet, like I won't notice and will accidentally serve…

my heart is breaking for that family on top of the rage building in me. I literally just watched the documentary "After Tiller" last night (you should watch it, its a fantastic look at the only drs who preform late term abortions and the struggles all patients face).

"For just 80 cents a day, you can give an actress or pop star the women's history and feminist theory education they so desperately need. Please call today."

Can anyone shed some insight on the ethical issue of this? Everyone keep saying DUH IT'S SO OBVIOUS, but I honestly don't understand what ethical issue would prevent that many doctors from doing the surgery. We have people who get transdermal devil horns, fork their tongues, and cut/scar/brand themselves for aesthetic…

"The blacks" that I know (my family and friends, BTW), thought that it was sad that the old white lady didn't know when to shut up, made allowances for her age and historical background, and wished her well.