I get your point, but what I’m talking about is hearing it over and over, from both government officials and not, out in the open.  Of course we’ve always had this problem, but now these people have been legitimized.

We’re one step away from these assholes using the N word openly and unashamedly. 

My kinda gift shop. 

Man, not even waterparks are fun for me anymore.  Boyfriend and I went to Cedar Point Shores (which we continue to call Soak City, as it was in our youths) and all the tall slides scared the bejeezus out of me.  All I could think was, “I could hurt my back.  I could hurt my head.  I could drown.”  Boyfriend, of…

You know who else had their citizenship stripped? Hint: six million of them were killed.

My mother and I live for MSNBC basically all day, every day (Nicole Wallace is a particular favorite, as is my husband Chris Hayes) but during Chris Matthews’ hour, we find literally anything else to watch.  That man’s voice is the equivalent of nails on a chalkboard, and I’m always worried he’s going to blow out my…

I was hired with the title “Chief Operating Officer/Paralegal.”  I was told that “occasional personal tasks” would be part of the job.  I did not realize that involved being on-call at 4am for nonsense like that.  Also, I was paid $30k a year, but given that I was called at 4am and on weekends, it basically boiled…

I had a boss who once called me at 4:30am because her furnace broke and she wanted me to track down someone at the repair company who was working at that time of night to fix it.

Oh, man. If Donald loses his Walk of Fame star, he’s also going to lose his shit.  Because that’s the kind of thing he cares about.

I work at Sephora, and I can’t wait for the moment when people start rushing our store, asking us to help them achieve this madness.  *shudders*

Eight years old. My God, I’m old.

Oh, we’ve seen them inside the apartment, just not DROPPINGS. Which is weird, right? Anyway, yeah, I keep yelling at my boyfriend about not doing his dishes often enough - I came in to cat-sit after he left, only to find a sink full of dirty dishes from three days prior (don’t get me started...). I am absolutely anal…

Funny enough, my brother, who is one class shy of a licensed home inspector, came over today to help me trim the cats’ nails and take down the birdfeeder. He looked around the place and found about two dozen code violations. He said that when she has the windows replaced (which I know she’s planning to do in October),…

Yeah, I had my brother come over and get the feeder down for me. Boyfriend wasn’t happy about it (and nor am I, really, because I like them), but he’s not the one who’s here, I am. Oddly enough? We haven’t seen ANY droppings. We only know they’re here because we’ve seen them.

Oooh that sounds (no pun intended) like a great idea! I’m gonna look into that. 

At this point I’ve basically told Boyfriend that I’m going to just go home and come back and forth to feed the cats every day.  I’m too freaked out to stay the night here while he’s gone (at least when he’s here he can deal with them if they show up).  He can deal with the cleaning as far as I’m concerned - it’s his…

Yeah, the issue’s been going on since before we got the feeder, so I’m guessing that’s not the *cause* and I really, really don’t want to take it down because it’s what we use to distract the cats (the mousekiller is a holy terror, lol) but it may just be a thing that has to happen.  Mostly I’m pissed at the landlady…

You did the right thing.  The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker talks about this - your intuition is usually right, and in this case, I’d say you did the right thing by listening to it.  

Oh, girl, I’m so sorry.  Both for your grief and for your asshole boss.  My mom worked for a guy once who demanded she work ON THE DAY OF HER MOTHER’S FUNERAL to finish monthly billing, and then fired her a month later for “performance issues.”  You did the right thing.  I suggest also pouring a bucket of legos under…

I remember election day 2008 very well. I took the day off work, voted, and then went to see a taping of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Since that taped at 3pm and I was, obviously, in California, they’d already started discussing the returns from the east coast - polls hadn’t closed, but they were already…