My favorite thing about Hangouts is that I sent my friend an invite around the same time as she sent me one, we both accepted each other’s invite, and now we’re both locked in a limbo where our names on each other’s contact list say ‘invitation sent’ and if we try to chat, it says ‘invitation pending’, and I guess…

Sometimes these things act as shibboleths for identifying non-locals, too. I submit Charlotte, VT (pronounced ‘shur-LOT’), Lebanon, NH (‘LEB-nin’), and Berlin, NH (‘BER-lin’). Oh! I almost forgot Milan, NH, which is just north of Berlin and is pronounced ‘MY-lan’. (bet you can guess what state I’m from)

Don’t you mean ‘You Get No Sympathy From Me, Smoothie’?

Yeah, Lakes Region! Even with all the FSPers from Mass, I think there’s still hope. I like to think I’m seeing a more politically engaged native population because the one thing people from New Hampshire hate more than anything else is when Massholes come up to NH and fuck around with our shit.

Oo, you just gave me an idea! Someday I’d love to own a big ol’ piece of land where people who don’t have fenced-in yards and do have dogs that don’t do well with other dogs can just sign up to be the only person with their dog on my land for an hour!

I honestly don’t know what I’d do if my dog were any bigger than he is. He absolutely HAAAATES going for walks now but I still want him to get out and about every day so we’ll walk as long as he’s willing and then I pick him up and carry him in a doggie sling for the rest of the walk. I’m always running into people…

SLOWLY. For a while we thought we had a behavioral problem on our hands and tried to ‘fix’ it, and then eventually we went to a vet who was like ‘this actually sounds like Canine Cognitive Dysfunction’. And then once you hear that, everything makes sense, and if you’ve ever known a human with dementia or Alzheimer’s,…

I used to do the yellow leash/vest that says ‘stay away’ thing, and sometimes that would help, but you have to live somewhere that enough people know what the yellow leash means. Otherwise I’d just get people coming up and getting all up in my dog’s business so they could look at/ask about the vest. The worst was when…

THIS. When my dog started to develop dementia, we learned that most of the time he was okay with other dogs, but sometimes he wasn’t. So in order to never ever be faced with the ‘your dog bit mine and now you need to put him down’ situation, I haven’t let my dog meet another dog in nine years. And because he’s small,…

Ha ha okay! So here is the site I originally found out about it on, and I can’t find the unboxing video, but here is a video of someone petting their pet jumping spider. It all made me want pet jumping spiders, but I keep pet shrimp, and at the time I found this out I’d just had a massive and depressing shrimp die-off…

Those dachshund/lion videos always make me so nervous. Like, clearly they get along, but at some point in the past, the owner of the dachshunds decided they were going to send their snack-size dogs into a lion’s enclosure to see how it was gonna go. I have an elderly dog that’s totally cool with people/dogs 80% of the…

I need that shirt.

I recently discovered that there’s a whole community of people who keep jumping spiders as pets and it’s adorable. I watched a video of a woman unboxing some new baby jumping spiders she’d just gotten and she was so excited.

I have a friend who’s 24 and looks about 14. She says that everybody always tells her she’s lucky to look so young, but she hates it because whenever she meets a guy, she sort of questions whether he’s attracted to her in spite of her looking like a child or if it’s because she looks like a child, and part of her…

When talking to grad students, don’t ask them how their thesis/dissertation is coming along, when they think they’ll be finished/graduate, or what they’re going to do when they finish. Definitely don’t ask if they’ve been to any conferences or gotten any papers published lately either.

Also this!

Gah, how did I forget about those guys?! I’m going to need more fabric...

In tangentially-related news, last night I printed out the iron-on decals for my custom headbags for my BOB and I am SO EXCITED. I have Trump, Sessions, Ryan, Cruz, and Robert Fisher. Aside from Pence, who am I missing?

Sometimes I close my eyes and fantasize about the eventual treason trials. I can see it so clearly in my mind - Trump and his whole family (except Tiffany and Barron probably) in the dock in one of those clear bulletproof plastic boxes, he has his hands clasped in front of him with that stupid look on his face he gets…

There’s a whole movement....hang on, let me see if I can remember the name...AHA! - it’s the Free State Project. IIRC, it’s a bunch of Libertarians from Massachusetts who plan to move to NH (and sometimes do). I’m not saying my fellow NHites are always all that great, but I will say that this movement has been met…