I had no idea Valeros were local to Texas! One escaped a few years back and plopped itself down in the middle of Evanston, IL, quite randomly. It was a perfectly pleasant gas station but we all wondered what the heck was a Valero? It has since changed into a Citgo and the proper order in the world was restored.

My dream job used to be indexer, so I feel your pain. Turns out no one pays for a good index either, which is why I’m a well-paid technical writer instead.

I read on a different site that she was flying coach.

I want to ask why she was in Tourist Class in the first place, with the Poors. Obvs it was because she couldn’t get someone to pay for her first class or business class flight, but why was that?

I call those sparkly sunglasses....?

I think we’re allowed to keep running or play it on the radio in our cars when its on. I mean it’s not a moment of silence song, right? That article is bananas. I love the beat of Formation even though I am fully aware and was aware the second or third time I played the video that this song was not for little old…

Probably because you didn’t grow up and go to high school in the south and then escape to a large city (NYC, Chicago, etc.) like I did. I’ve basically got two disparate FB feeds - my old HS friends and my current Chicago friends. Now many of my old high school friends either don’t care about Beyonce and so didn’t say…

“No one engages in long, fun discussions about politics, philosophy, and life while in college.”

I could kiss you right now!

Bernie supporter here. If it helps, I have never once called a single Hillary supporter anything nasty, either online or in person. Sure, I’m a drop in an ocean but it’s all I can do. Here’s to keeping things civil!

Chicago’s tap water is delicious as well!

And this is why even though my husband and I are both developers and sometimes muse about moving from Chicago to CA...we will never actually do it. Currently we rent a 2-bedroom garden apartment (i.e.; basement unit where we live like mushrooms in the dark) for $1400/month and we mostly sock all our money away. If we…

42 here and seriously thinking about taking a gap year off of work to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I’ve been a technical writer for 20 years now and that’s long enough.

Having had a massive saddle embolism (what Ms. Dawson had, and died of), and having obviously survived it, they are sneaky bastards. Mine was probably present and growing for about two weeks before I went to the hospital, and yes, I did have trouble breathing. I thought I needed to exercise more! It was only until I…

I had a massive saddle PE at the age of 40 (I have a vasculitic disease, chronic, meh), and the ICU nurses were the BEST. The best! Loved them, all the stars, all the hearts. I wish I could have stayed in ICU for my entire time. After three days, when I moved into the general population, thankfully into a single room,…

I have walked out of a meeting before because I had gotten so angry I couldn’t handle it. Now that I’m older and (perhaps) wiser, I can’t believe I let anything get to me that much. I was under 30 at the time and thought work was everything. It had to have been almost 15 years ago by now.

My husband and I are both in the software industry and 60 hour weeks are the norm for us, as well as crunch time. Though neither of us work weekends that much really, just a lot of weekday hours.