I feel like if I’m betting on one party to be the worst side in the divorce, I’m definitely putting my bet on a Sarkozy.

So no one’s going to post that image huh? Ok, I’ll bite. Whenever I think of them I think of this picture and the bowls full of cigarettes at their wedding.

I know MK Olsen was an adult when she hooked up with Sarkozy, but they were a creepy looking couple on par with Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchinson.  The pap photos when they were accompanied by his teen daughter were particularly disturbing.

yup. I’m at the end of my PhD program. I realized recently that I gave almost 15 years of my life-including being poor, sick, mobbed, developing chronic anxiety and ailments, waiting to have a child longer than I wanted-for a lovely, beautiful calling. Such a beautiful academic job in which working overtime is…

Anyone who says depression is just you being bullshit is wrong. Depression is a real thing, it’s a physical illness, it’s as real as the flu or hepatitis or whatever else.

I have a small but nice group of friends and several hobbies, but feel like I rarely have fun or am excited. About five years ago, I made this big plan to improve my life. I got a post-grad degree and changed careers. Now all I have is a pile of student loans and an equally dull career but with longer hours.

I was married to a guy who was a proudly professed “work-aholic”. In fact he was just a jerk with a personality disorder who used “work” as an excuse to get out of doing things he didn’t want to do. This sort of spilled over on me because I bought his schtick that work work work was all that mattered. If I took a sick…

The Biden student loan plan is to cut income based payments to 5% of discretionary income, then forgiveness after 20 years (or 25? don’t remember.) And that’s total forgiveness, not the current system where you have to report the forgiven amount as taxable income.

A joke answer? I found it terrifyingly on-point. I’d be interested in a more hopeful down-to-earth answer to this burning question from Perpetually Bored (aka all of us), but certainly haven’t found one. 

I recommend cultivating a healthy resentment toward your work. Put in just enough effort to keep your job and no more. The fantasy that an exciting career is enough to sustain a life is one of the most harmful of the modern age—you were never going to find meaning there.

Find something simple, like accounting, or bookkeeping, being an electrician or something. And start doing it, and keep doing it.  And stay physically fit.

Before you know it, you’ll be 50 with 5-6 weeks of vacation coming to you, and enough income for fancy vacations or expensive toys.

or not.

Trust me, I know.

“finding…

I am a young American graduate student in the state of Iowa. I am buried under a mountain of student debt and have lost all hope of ever paying it back. Neither of the major American political parties care to assist me.

Good comment, but I think the answer is pretty much that easy.

I’m not sure what the end game is. You might say, “justice for one woman is a noble end in and of itself.” I admire people who hold that sentiment, sincerely.

I was wondering what Jezebel’s take on Stacey Abrams’s comments was going to be. All things considered I think this take is good. She realizes that her current plan of action is probably the fastest way to get her into the White House. Of all the bad options available to her, this is the one she is choosing.

Exactly.

Admitting when you were wrong is rare and admirable. It doesn’t erase all the shit he’s done in the past, but being able to own his shit without making excuses or getting defensive is something worth commending and a necessary step to getting on the right path. Who knows if he’ll be able to continue on in the right…

My aunt tested positive for COVID-19 after my grandma's funeral, which only six people attended in person. My parents finished their self-quarantines this week, but my aunt ended up in the step-down unit of her local hospital in TN with double pneumonia and C. Diff. in addition to the COVID. They are doing everything…

Spending the night alternating between catching up on work and knitting (another) quarantine scarf.

It’s 91 degrees here and I decided that high-intensity cardio was a good idea. Yeah, I don’t know what is wrong with me either. In other news, I found out my Stepdad had(and recovered from) covid-19. This might explain why so many of us had pneumonia/bronchitis after we all attended a family funeral.