I had the WORST most aggravating experience bathing my dog today. So when I came home I had lunch with a Smith and Forge hard cider. Then a mixed rum and juice cocktail, and finally a beer while I watched House of Cards season 3 and colored all afternoon, as well as took a nap.

I’m just watching it now, and she said she had a second-grade education (or so I heard). Can you imagine? She’s 25 now, and prison is actually doing what it is supposed to do-rehabilitate and help her move on from what she did.

LOL, when I was reading about him as a senior in high school in 2003 (or whatever came out about his high school activities-something very smarmy) I realized, holy crap, this man is MY AGE (so about 32) and looks like he’s 45-50. He sort of looks like prematurely-aged Vincent Kartheiser on Mad Men, when he had to…

I worked from home a bit today. My dog was lying on the floor right next to my office chair so she knew the minute I was getting up.

LOL my husband LOVES them but then complains he’s put on weight when I make them!

I make sure to bake them no longer than ~10 mins, because otherwise they’re overbaked and not as soft.

I just finished spaghetti with homemade bolognese sauce and a couple homemade chocolate chip cookies (using the recipe on the back of the bag of Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips).

Dude, I miss him being in office so much. Every day I think, ‘what fresh hell will Trump bring to the U.S.?’ Along with ‘what major highway will be shut down today?’ (ATL joke).

You are in my prayers. I hope your little one pulls through this and is just fine.

Thanks! It’s (sort of) controlled with the immunosuppressant cyclosporine, but there’s a new drug coming out in a couple of weeks that should be a lot better for it (dupilumab). Dupilumab affects only the IL-4 pathway, which causes eczema. Cyclosporine has affected my kidneys and caused high cholesterol, and it…

Yep, I have a chronic medical condition that isn’t nearly as bad as lupus (though similar in terms of the mechanism-chronic eczema that gets REALLY horrible if I’m off my meds). I have been terrified to lose the coverage I need to buy the necessary drugs for this condition. It has probably been the worst thing,…

What I meant by that ‘but’ is that the family has been given some recognition (while not compensation directly) and there are scholarships set up for grandchildren (from what I remember from the Skloot book). Though the compensation may not be enough (at least in many people’s eyes, and I wish there were a way of…

Note that I said that I wasn’t going to call the family greedy. That’s twisting my words. I understand the ethical issues involved, including those involving the use of cells from an African-American woman, and that informed consent for the use of her cells in all the ways they were used wasn’t even dreamed of back…

Has anyone seen that one of Lacks’ sons is suing Johns Hopkins and others for compensation for the use of Lacks’ HeLa cells?

THANK YOU. Grad students and postdocs are the grunt workers of science and (as a postdoc) I completely agree with you that no one at my level or below makes huge amounts of money doing this work.

Yep, I feel like people who are transgender are in a catch-22. They look and groom themselves to be the gender they believe themselves to be, and yet society is trying to push them back into the other gender, making it illegal for them to use the bathroom of their choice. But if they go into a bathroom wearing the…

Didn’t he also go off on Colbert about something that Stephen was teasing him about? :goes and looks it up: yeah, Colbert was ribbing him about wearing more casual-style clothes and Casey has, like, no sense of self-deprecation. Very awkward. Sounds like Casey is a little too full of himself.

I did double birds and yelled, FUCK YOU, BETSY DEVOS! FUCK YOU, JEFF SESSIONS!

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! HEY!

Or ricin. Purified ricin in the form of a powder takes only a few grains to kill an adult.