If you want to make it a DDD party you can add desserts!

The one I try that works best for me (and I’ll admit I’ve still got an infant - I haven’t hit talking yet) is to try to focus on what he’s actually trying to communicate through the crying - even if it’s just frustration over getting dressed or being super tired. Then I find myself focusing on the ‘why’ instead of…

Biggest thing I can think of is: Dont hate your job. Absolutely dreading heading back to work on a Monday is always going to suck the weekend away...

Museums are the best way to test someone. I personally like the Mutter museum in Philly as a good ‘How’s this whole thing gonna go’ test. It’s a medical history museum with everything from a wall of human skulls to draws full of wild things that people ate. If you don’t think that’s neat as hell I’m not sure what…

They model large groups of people using the same techniques as hydromechanics, so the analogy is quite apt.

Breaking my caffeine habit was the best thing I ever did for my morning routine. I find it so much easier to get out of bed now, and once I’m up, I’m ready to go.

While I love this philosophy, in essence, I have to admit that my current favorite sweater is one I’d packed away almost 20 years ago and just recently rediscovered. Fashion did its thing and went full circle, and now it’s wearable again. You can argue that the price of storage for all these years isn’t worth the…

I don’t see anything wrong with that! 

For me, though, a new, clean toilet brush *does* kinda spark joy. Like, it’s not the old, disgusting one that made me hate cleaning the toilet! Yay!

I have resisted the app at all costs because I hate that they try to make so many things app dependent, and I dont want the notifications (yeah I know I can turn them off).

I don’t really care about hypocritical multi-millionaire environmental advocates. Leo could recycle his entire fleet and go live in a cave eating bugs and it would have ZERO impact on global carbon emissions. 

Yes, lets all wait and do nothing until everyone else is doing something.  that will surely work!

Dumbass

Here’s the thing, though: if you’re just padding your writing to make it look longer, any teacher/professor worth their salt is still going to be able to tell you didn’t develop your idea(s) well enough. I wish more teachers and professors would explain that it’s not really about word/page count. It’s about deeply…

My students sometime turn in papers triple-spaced with large paragraph breaks and lots of inserted pictures and graphs. There’s probably one good page of text, but they hand in a five page assignment like that and say “See, five pages exactly.”

You got it right. You want to get to a smoke point, and let it cool inside the oven.

Does it seem strange to anyone else that “1st cousin once removed” can either be your dad’s cousin or you 1st cousin’s child? Those are two very different relationships that should be described differently for these titles to make any sense whatsoever. Keeping it that ambiguous makes the titles worthless, since you…

I'm sure I fall somewhere significant on the "hoarder spectrum" — I don't hold on to absurd things like trash, old newspapers, perishable items, dead animal carcases or any of the other scary thing you see on those TV shows. But I do hold on to a lot of other things (books, magazines, items from my adolescence, and…

I think Thorin misunderstands the APA findings on highlighting/underlining here. The way I read it, the APA was referring to highlighting or underlining the source material (such as a textbook), not the notes you've already taken. This makes more sense to me, because if all you did was just highlight a sentence in a…

white hot, really? Thats pretty hot, in the neighborhood of 2200F