The way she phrased it, I'm feeling like she's the one who added too much ketchup too....

I think one of the shittiest things here is that Harvard was (IMHO) absolutely wrong. Asian applicants were often being reviewed under a totally different set of standards based on racist stereotypes (i.e. Asian students with impressive resumes being presumed “unimaginative” and “self-centered” and "checking boxes" whe…

Good point!

I paid off all my student loans, and still support student loan forgiveness. That said, I don’t understand the many people in my life who have the means, but have not been paying down their loans since the zero-interest mandate went into effect. Now is/was the time!!! Pay them down while they’re not actively growing…

Sometimes I think “nothing happened to me” is more “I haven’t yet realized something happened to me.” I know people who didn’t realize they were having issues with the IRS for years...Previous me would have said idk how this happens to you, but recently the IRS sent a letter (just asking me to resend a W2 but still)…

Even just the adrenaline! I got doored pretty good, banged and bruised but fine. Got back on the bike, road the rest of the way to the train station. About halfway to work the adrenaline wore off and I suddenly lost my hearing and everything started going black. Managed to snap out of it and come around before I…

I wish I knew more people who followed #4. That said, my partner is primarily an independent contractor who often needs to take a rapid test before gigs these days. They are INCREDIBLY hard to find, and he has had colleagues miss gigs and auditions (without pay, of course!) over not being able to produce a rapid test…

I couldn't get into the show for a number of reasons, but my little sister is just young enough to be in the first generation that had reliable smart phones and social media in late middle school/early high school. While her life was certainly NOT Euphoria, it always surprised me how 'real' online life was to her. It…

My partner's mom side has incredibly strong Hungarian nose genes. From great great grandma to great great grandkids, everybody has The Nose. I think it's awesome!!

Worked the front desk and dining hall for the law school housing in undergrad. Can confirm, a miserable group (the men and women, to be fair). Highlight: having a guy yell at me that the free ping pong balls we lent out weren’t regulation...I not so kindly reminded him he was welcome to purchase his own. Eventually…

One of the worst things to ever happen to me, a person who already has horrifying feet: had a giant blister on the bottom of my foot that had healed and left a bigass flap of skin. Noticed on my way out the door to physical therapy and was like eh, why would they ever look at my feet. Whelp that day she decided they…

The only valid defense I've seen is that sugar and sweets would have been scarce with wartime rationing. If you're desperate enough, I guess a Turkish delight becomes tasty???? Sadly, my experience mirrors yours.

Same to you!! I’m feeling way better than I expected but I’m so afraid of reinjuring it with a wrong move - it flared up last night and I was panicking. Losing my mind right along with you being stuck in the house :/

Cooped up inside recovering from a hip arthroscopy and here for all Christmas conspiracies, good and bad.

My extremely comparable experience studying for the GRE all summer in my lovely co-op, heading the sounds of my housemates laughing and drinking wafting through my third-story window...

Spend some time in an underresourced public school and you’ll change your tune. I spent $100s of dollars on classroom supplies during the mere 6 months I was substitute teaching. Most of my classrooms were special ed, and went through sensory items like Play-Doh faster than the school would ever supply it. I also kept…

I take it this means you're reinstated???!

Working on my night cheese

I'm so sad to hear that happened to you!! Hope you can enjoy plenty of quality time with your kitties at home, and it sounds like you have a good strategy for maintaining boundaries when you return. What a drag!

Largely unrelated but I’m still bitter about all this jagged little pill revival shit because the theatre production totally screwed over my partner and was an anti-union shit show.