I placed an Athleta order on Black Friday and didn’t get it until last week. Insane!

I understand. I think we’re all a little lost today. This is just really sad.

Yes! It always has been, in a lot of ways! She’s obsessed with that archetype (stereotype, maybe, but for her it seems to be the former). She’ll dissect and criticize anything she’s ever laid eyes on, but her own issues are pretty much the elephant in the fucking room.

Paging logophobe. If there ever was a day...

Allie didn’t even write about him being MISSING. Newsworthy topics are the opposite of integral to 500DoK.

Ha, I just wrote a nerd-apology myself to this.

*pushes up glasses on nose* There actually is a huge amount of debate and worry about the ethics of next-gen “science stuff” going on already. Part of the issue is exactly what you mention: some people would like to make some sort of nebulous agreement to intentionally NOT pursue certain avenues, some would like to…

Honestly? You don’t even know who Florence is?

“I don’t believe in CARBON, but here we are!”

My younger brother, who is in law school and has been interning with assorted public defenders’ offices and loving it for the last year, was told by my younger sister today that she might have to “re-evaluate [their] relationship” if he wants to “work to let guilty people go free.”

I am 2,000 miles away from this,…

Let’s hear it for those of us who would have loved nothing more than to have read our way through family car trips.

I was with the show then! Yeah, we spent a lot of time that weekend explaining we weren’t furries. And eating at Franktuary down the street.

Ughhh so also donate to their Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tunaa…

Haha, secondly, quickly, thank YOU; this has been super fun. I do wish you could message like the old GM sites and I don’t have any throwaway email addresses anymore, but I would love to tell that story; it’s somewhat self-serving as my troupe is going to be on the Colbert show next week. :D Not with me, but with the…

LOL firstly, before I even read the rest, that’s Dominique! I know him pretty well. He’s a weirdo, as all cat trainers are, but in a benign way. He’s hilarious, and his cats are wonderful and so sweet.

That is awesome. I had my hairstylist ask me the other day why I was in vet med and I was kind of like, “Ummm...I LIKE ANIMALS?” I think it’s probably a good sign when you’re working in a field that eight-year-old you (or any eight-year-old) would find cool. What’s NOT to like about the octopus? I am so intrigued by…

Oh, god, that’s rad as hell. Thanks, BTW. :D I actually came to working with animals after, like, a separate unrelated undergrad degree and then a career that didn’t really have anything to do with THAT. One of my stock “jokes” is that if I won the lottery, I’d just spend the rest of my life getting doctorates, or at…

Your neighbor, okay, he just sounds delusional. (FWIW, I’m in vet med, specifically behavior, but human behavior is my background/longtime hobby. That doesn’t sound creepy, ha.) ANYWAY, that’s where my self-awarded expertise stops. A lot of that stuff— actually dx-ing what precisely is the problem— is a big grey area,…

Now I’m thinking of Elizabeth Hasslebeck, and that is not making me hungry.

If you ever have time to kill, google “factitious disorder” and let yourself go down the rabbit hole. That’s how you’ll find some of the more “scientific” (ish) stuff on what’s casually referred to as pathological lying. It’s something I have a hard time understanding myself; I’ve had experience with it in real life,…