The comparison is very apt then—6.7% of people report heavy drinking in the past month. On one hand that sounds like self reporting which underrepresents problems, but on the other hand even heavy drinking does not necessarily mean alcoholism.

Seriously, I was working in the yard this morning and sweating buckets. I now sit in my living room maybe 3 miles from the Emmys with the fan on full blast and the door open. We’re like two months away from velvet weather here.

A consultant hired by my firm to support a big project that I’m leading bailed on us at the last minute, and not a single other person in the office is capable of handling the resulting work. So now I have two deadlines this week, worked massive OT last week and have to go in to work tomorrow, and frankly it’s a…

We are all this napping seal pup. When you get the urge to “help” him, remember that time some jackass insisted on making you wait for him to run and open the door for you when you were perfectly fine on your own. Or insisted on giving you a hand with something you had balanced just so, and wound up knocking it over.…

I doubt it, since it seems like all of us got slightly different lists of followers. My hope would be that they just make it less of a random obstacle course to get yourself out of the greys.

wowsa! I just got Pictorial, The Muse, That’s What She Said, The Slot, Skillet, and Two Cents. But then I haven’t been around as much lately as I used to.

Well, she needed to wash his hair. All of it.

I’ve felt like I’m killing everything, because it takes stuff soooooo long to get established in our awful clay soil. BUT, I discovered this week that my agaves had pups, so I’m not doing everything wrong!

ohhh my gosh, I’m making polenta as soon as husband leaves. He’s going to have a guy night, and he does not get why I love polenta so much. Which makes it perfect food for a night on my own.

yeah, guess I just thought someone might have put some thought into that since then, you know, updated based on some sort of sense.

I have not read the Wonder Woman comic books, no.

Doesn’t the lack of pants make shin guards a bit ineffectual? Like, why don’t they just shoot her in the upper leg and take her out?

I think that these days being an anti-abortion democrat makes the presidential bid a no-fly zone. That’s just too much of a contradiction to make it in a two-party system.

On the other hand, I appreciate the blind approach of reading the material without names attached. It would be lovely if more companies (at least those who evaluate creative material/portfolios) would do this.

There’s so much to unpack in that... first it’s so little acknowledged that there are actually programs designed to be 5 years, and those enrolled are often penalized by financial aid already because even the schools offering them don’t seem to understand that this isn’t some moral failing but rather how the program…

Now this post makes more sense than your original. Certainly there are differences and things to look at regarding schedules, course/major offerings, housing, sports, and amenities which might make this more achievable. But “has a staff of volunteers” is a strawhorse, no? We can’t very well say that teaching is so…

Look at it this way, you are probably inspiring the hell out of someone and don’t even know it. I remember in grad school the professor that I TA’d for was pregnant and was like you. She was flat out like, “yeah, well this wasn’t really in the plan but we’re rolling with it.” or “actually I’m mostly just really…

Don’t forget the monthly (or even weekly!) photos of the baby bump. Bonus points for setting them up with the same pose, same/similar outfit, and cute yet free script font displaying the number of weeks along you are!

I actually wonder whether she might have been planning to soonish anyways. Why get a degree only to stay in the same customer service job you’ve held for the past 6 years? I bet knowing that she could get a job using her new degree was extra motivation to leave this BS behind.

It basically seems like the boss has no concept of professional judgement. In the situation he writes about, he is unable to understand that this is exactly the sort of situation where he should bend this role but he doesn’t, and that is consistent with someone who would say “oh, she’s only been in the workforce for 6…