God dammit, what is with all these people who are PROUD OF THEIR IGNORANCE???

I love fall so much I married it. Well, as close as I could. I had an autumn mountain top wedding. Some of the best things, in no particular order:

How are holidays the discretion of the employer? My understanding is that if it’s a federal holiday, you either have to be given the day off, or paid time and a half.... But that’s also based on what my first boss told me 15 years ago so I may be very wrong.

Either way, a big ol’ raised fist to your boss.

Those people sound objectively terrible. Is there a supervisor you can talk to? You can’t have someone coming into work in a mental health facility while high/drunk - if anything were to go wrong, you’d ALL be fucked.

If I knew I had a “cancer gene”, I’d want to be strong enough to make the same decision you did.

Does anyone here really dislike their parent(s)? How do you handle that?

I’ve come to realize over the last five years or so - basically, since my parents divorced - that while I love my dad... I really don’t like him. He has mental health issues that he won’t deal with appropriately, he does and says things that are…

That is amazing. Go you!

There definitely are sharks around Hawaii, where this “Sirius Institute” is.

How the fuck are you gonna PUSH in the ocean??? You need something to fucking brace against that isn’t a sharp/slippery rock.

Word. I’m one of those evil, selfish dummies who had a homebirth. And I also did more research on birth than any other person I know, including meeting with TWO Doctors and two midwives before making my decision. My midwife has delivered over 500 babies and has never lost one. A low-intervention option is available…

I’m not saying I use algebra on the daily (and I sure as heck don’t use trig), but I was able to make informed decisions about my financial future because of my understanding of math-beyond-arithmetic. Compound interest is at the heart of a lot of financial transactions (whether you’re accruing it or paying for it)…

Except you really do need math if you have any interest in engineering, computer science, physics, chemistry, medicine, architecture, ecology, business... hell, even the Recreation Management students at my college had to take Prob Stats. My sister took more levels of calculus than I ever knew existed and she works in…

I had to memorize maps of every continent in 7th grade. We never learned about how the borders were decided, the impact of said borders on indigenous cultures, or anything about the people who lived in those countries. There was no world history option when I was in school. According to my (relatively awesome!) public…

My mom was expected to dissect a fetal pig and she had to refuse because she said it looked like a human.

I hope you find the support and strength you need to beat your alcoholism. Withdrawal is fucking awful, and nobody talks about how painful it is for alcoholics (messes with the image we have of alcohol being about fun and good times). But your body will be so much better for it.

But how would sending mom to jail help that baby?

Go you!! That’s awesome! My best friend is an alcoholic, and he’s tried being sober three times. This time, it’s stuck for 3 years and I’m SO PROUD of him. I hope he makes it to five.

It doesn’t matter how well-functioning those folks were. I’ve met fully functional alcoholics, heroin addicts, coke users... Guess what? All of them were chemically dependent on a drug to get through their day. Without their drug of choice, they would start to go through withdrawal and get violently ill. It doesn’t…

Oh totally. I wonder if it’s because the development of the Cherokee alphabet is pretty famous? At least it is here in the South...

I’ve read that once you hit puberty, your brain’s capacity for learning a new language drops considerably. We’re wired to learn three languages at birth, though (according to the early literacy specialist who manages the kids’ library here, anyway), so it’s incredibly disappointing to me that foreign language isn’t a…