Do you have a laptop? Can you take it to class? Is it easier to key things in than writing? I have real issues with handwriting because of my autoimmune disease, but using a keyboard is much less stressful.

I can’t believe I’ve never heard the phrase “falling to the communists”. Thank you. It’s wonderful and I can’t wait to use it.

Health/School Rant

Introducing my partner to my friends was a disaster. He was insanely shy at the time, and compensated with this big fake brash persona in public that came off as very insincere. Meanwhile, one of my ‘friends’ who had a thing for me would constantly demean my partner and make him feel horrible, and turned a good chunk…

To the lead-in topic, for once: I am, in a moment of supreme pettiness, absurdly pleased to see that 34-year-old Ivanka Trump’s nasolabial lines are already deeper and more noticeable than the light, fine, almost invisible ones on my 49-year-old face.

I can’t find the brag thread, and I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes, but I didn’t know where else to share this: I picked up my one month clean and sober keytag!

On August 19th I left my husband. 10 days later I had to put down my 12 year old dog. He was my baby and the love of my life. I had him before I ever met my husband, so for a long time it was just me and him. I miss him with every cell in my body and am completely devastated. I don’t know what to do with myself.…

Starting a brag thread this week because I’m so excited!

The Hillary camp should totally be putting out Clinton/Kaine 2016: Taco Trucks on Every Corner bumper stickers. I’d buy one and I never buy that shit.

They marry a rich guy and help him run for president...

If an illegal immigrant is pregnant and wants an abortion, does a conservative’s head explode in a moral quandary?

Heinrich had previously pleaded guilty to 25 federal child pornography charges, but denied any involvement in Wetterling’s disappearance.

You actually don't need anti-bacterial soap for healing tattoos. For all of mine, the tattoo artists just recommended fragrance free soap. Pretty sure I used a fragrance free Dove bar.

Method. I’ve used their refills for years because they were the only foamy soap refills that weren’t anti-bacterial.

Professional infection preventionist here: unless you’re doing a surgical scrub, regular soap works fine. The point of soap is WASHING OFF stuff, not killing it. That’s what sanitizer is for (save C. diff or norovirus; see: washing off stuff).

Remote controls in hotel rooms *shudder*

As a microbiologist I’ve been trying to get people to stop using that shit for years, but I think I finally gave up a little while back. Yay, FDA!

Does this mean I won’t have to spend 10 minutes in the soap aisle trying to find one of the two handsoaps that aren’t anti-bacterial now?! This is brilliant news! Down with the bacteria hysteria and up with good old fashioned soap and just actually washing your hands.

The only thing that’s more shit-smeared than the bathroom doorknob are all of our phones. I’m still alive.