artfulcodger
Artful Codger
artfulcodger

Love the addition of the Snape one. He is FLAWLESS.

I run late because either my patient needs a few extra minutes (because they're old and hard of hearing, or confused, or upset, or sick or their problem is complicated) or because I have had to squeeze in some emergencies (sick children, suicidal teen, phone call from a hospital colleague needing urgent information

So ever since my high school days way back in the day, I had crushed on Patrick Stewart hard. Mind you, I couldn't have given two hoots about Star Trek. I had seen him play Jane's father in the period film Lady Jane and swooned myself into a proper puddle the moment I heard that voice. You could say that voice, along

Yep. I was not in a bunker, but stuck in suburbia with an emotionally abusive man whose whole color palette extended to sage and cream all the way to beige. As soon as I got out, I bought everything in BRIGHT BRIGHT Mexican colors. My bathroom curtains are Loteria card fabric and my kitchen curtains look like papel

it's like Kimmy Schmidt but in the shape of random articles of clothing.

That's not what I meant in the slightest. I wasn't talking about women not helping other women, but more about the way a lot of young people feel antagonistic about authority figures, which I think is true for men and women both. In my case, as I wrote with the older women in my family, it wasn't that I thought any of

Thanks! I try, but frankly it's all Greek to me*.

*I'm sorry**

**a little

It had a metallic taste and was starting to clot.

Whatever.

At least her placentas are locally sourced and presumably gluten-free. It's abou time people turned away from BIG PLACENTA.

No, no, no. Animals eat the placenta to cover the smell of blood associated with birth. Not for any other reason. Ruminids like deer can't even digest it properly to gain any sort of nutrition from it, for strength or whatever people claim. Safe to assume that most women aren't being actively hunted. The placenta is a

The ice bucket thing filled me with RAGE. People were like "oh but it's raising awareness for ALS!" Me: "Okay, good. Explain to me what ALS is, then."

To me, the entire field of evolutionary psychology is it's infancy at best and total bunk at worst. You can't perform any scientific study on the psychology of an austrolopithican, seeing as how their brains decomposed eons ago. We can sure uncover their bones and trinkets, but as to their psychology and values, we

This. Not to mention the fact that anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists aren't necessarily all in sync with the "we evolved to be polyamorous" theory. There are a few different schools of thought that say a few different things.

It's very nice that you found an environment in which you are happy, but I do wish people would stop deferring to evolution every single time. The people who write books and push the idea that humans "evolved" or "didn't evolve" to be monogamous or play football or drive a Toyota Cressida do so with very flimsy

During my first pregnancy, at week 6 I got severe morning sickness and nearly had to be hospitalized. I couldn't get back to work for over a week and when I did I got all the eye rolling and 'come on, you're not the first person who's ever had morning sickness, get over it'. I got back to work, struggled through the

Raising a child isn't a sabbatical. Thanks.

It really sucks when you become pregnant and your non-kid oriented friends all drop you because they think that your pregnancy means you can't be their friend any more, or that it is the only thing you want to talk about ever again.

I will never understand this. Use your damn legs people. I only used these spots once while pregnant, when I went to buy an extremely light, but hard to carry crib mattress. But I if I had been working all day on my feet? You'd better believe I would have taken advantage. If people feel cheated because they are not

"You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater." I don't see the value of "the baby" here (i.e. the Greek system). What is worth saving? The tradition? Nah. Philanthropy? You don't need to be Greek to be charitable/volunteer. The social aspect? Save some money and make friends the regular way.