My bookshelf is "artistically styled" in the sense that I have found a way to store about one ton of books on a piece of furniture meant to hold like, 100lbs max. Does that count?

“’I always say, start with your books,’ Erica in the House advises. She recommends stacking the books in different ways—”

Doesn’t matter anyway. People suffering from true Narcissitic Personality Disorder won’t listen to, “No, human adults don’t act like that, stop it.” They will hear “Whomp whomp whomp, I am jealous of you, you are amazing, whomp whomp whomp, please project mental disorders onto me and try to make me feel inferior in an…

My absolute favorite is Daria and Jane. To be weird and different and okay, to be allowed to be negative, to wander aimlessly around town and go and eat shitty pizza.

“Opportunities” that require travel, late nights, and weekend work are sometimes just opportunistic exploitation.

I was prepping to defend my masters while pregnant. I actually had my all male committee argue that I would be too stressed to get my defense ready while pregnant, and I should wait until after I had the baby. I could work on it while he was sleeping. They all have children. :O

I have this mental image: “Can you lift your ego. I’m trying to vacuum here”.

I’m so sorry, that sounds terrible to go through. People really need to learn that there are other completely medical reasons some women take the pill.

I think my ex would describe me almost identically.

I feel like they expect women all over the country to clutch their pearls as they loudly gasp, “No!” and fall upon their fainting couches, when really most people will be like, “Yup, sounds fair, you gonna mail that to me, or. . . ?”

Just last night I watched the episode of Star Trek where Data experiences his first emotion - anger - at having his life threatened by a Borg. He kills the Borg with his bare hands, and then experiences his second emotion - pleasure - at having killed the person that was trying to harm him. I imagine my emotional arc…

My mother was like this too. I was a “heavy” child and my mother was very keen to point this out to me at every opportunity, telling me I needed to wear baggy clothes to hide my chubby body, literally telling me I have a “fat ass” when I was 9. I “looked a lot fatter than 130 lbs” when I was a teenager. Etc. Not in a…

This is where Donald Trump came from.

What’s really awful is that so much of the poverty in the South is rural, not urban - so it’s more “picturesque” - if you know what I mean? Everyone knows what urban poverty looks like - the blighted neighborhoods, diplapidated buildings, dirty streets, etc. - but rural poverty is set amongst trees and rivers and…

The lack of job opportunities in some areas is what shocks me. You’ll drive through entire communities, and not see anything beyond a couple gas stations. Everyone within 15 or 20 miles is driving to the same “town” to work at a dying hardware store for minimum wage, or sitting at homes waiting on checks for the…

In Appalachia once for a service project, my group was painting trailers. We went to clean off the roof of one man’s living room - it was black with what we thought was grime. It was cockroaches. Wall to wall.

Southern fundamentalist Baptists aren’t terrible at guilt either. I grew up learning to feel guilty for pretty much every thought or feeling I had and everything I did because I wasn’t Christlike enough. You couldn’t pray for blanket forgiveness either. You had to ask for forgiveness for each individual sin.

The Lilithians after Lilith because she was the first woman to say I'm not obeying your rules. I'm going to go have sex with demons in the desert.