everrrrrrybody was in love with her. I mean, sure she was hot, but at some point you realize that she’s a completely insane narcissist raising a little psychopath, and for most people that greatly diminishes her charm.

yeah, I think maybe especially for Jenji Kohan’s stuff... I loved the first couple of seasons of Weeds, couldn’t stand it by the end. I don’t want OITNB to hang around long enough to suffer the same fate.

no, it’s not ok for police to plant evidence, but if the police do plant evidence that shouldn’t be a get out of jail free card if the person truly has committed the crime in question. We have to try to look past it to see the truth. Sometimes it’s so messed up that you can no longer discern the truth, but sometimes…

My team sometimes reminds each other, “There is no such thing as a design emergency.”

I’d say the lesson is, don’t be a hypocrite. If you value your success, help the people who work for you succeed too.

thank goodness. I can see how he’d feel swindled, and he was a bit, but that doesn’t negate the situation of there needing to be consequences for the awful things he’s done.

That’s what stood out to me most about last year’s cover—the photoshopping was SOOO bad. People didn’t even look like they were scaled appropriately.

ah, you may very well be right. I’m not actually a Scandal watcher, so I was going just by the article’s description. That’s interesting too, because I feel like that’s an experience a lot of women have had during pregnancy scares, whether they turned out to be false alarms or real.

I appreciate that Shonda does this enough that this single depiction doesn’t have to stand for all abortions. The fact that she can write one character (Olivia) going through emotions and struggle to make this decision, and turn around and write another character (Christina on Grey’s) who is like *of course* I’m…

I see it as, liberals are more comfortable with reality, while conservatives turn to fictions to help them cope.

God I hated that episode. Whiny wimpy Meredith was so annoying to watch, never mind “Mandy” and Christina’s distractingly awful hair. Also Ellis was never completely fleshed out as a character, so I spent the whole time wondering why on earth Richard put up with her shit.

That makes sense. Also though, Bailey is both sassy and wise, so rather refutes some of Shonda’s points above... but it’s ok, I love sassy wise little bitty doctor Bailey.

OK I think my plan is to email my editor and be like Hey, don’t think I haven’t noticed or am ignoring comments about the photo quality here. I know what I need to do about it but it requires a bit of an investment, and I just wanted to check with you that I wasn’t already on the chopping block before making that…

your vet seems to be in the business of borrowing trouble. I recommend you don’t engage in that, but rather get the test to actually know for sure before stressing about it.

I’m letting the husbandbot cook for me tonight. My motivation hit a wall today for some reason, and I am just not doing shit for the rest of the night. I have opened the wine, that is my contribution.

I don’t want to get into exact finances since I’ve mentioned at other times who I blog for, but basically it would be between 3 and 6 months of doing that side work at my current frequency. At any other time in my life I would just go for it and up my contribution frequency to pay for it in like 2 months, but I’ve…

Ordinary People—it’s got the Catcher in the Rye vibe except a lot less pretentiousness. Also The Bell Jar.

Breaking into the Layer Cake primitivo, which is kinda fancy for a saturday night but we had it around, so... anyway, trying to blog for my side gig, also getting distracted by looking at cameras. I’ve concluded that they’ll fire me if I don’t get a new camera (my camera was nice when I bought it... 8 years ago). But…

Unfortunately, I think he’s right. I’m actually surprised though that he knows that his supporters don’t give a damn about facts. That’s more self-awareness than I’d given him credit for.

I balance both. I started by making sure I had a grand in savings, then maximized my credit card payments. Once I knocked out the credit card, built my savings up to $2500. Then knocked out the grad school loans, now working on building my savings to the full 6 month cushion, and only then will I worry about undergrad…