I promised myself that if I finished writing the approach section of my NRSA grant yesterday (second draft), I would take the weekend off finally. I did, so I did! I had a very relaxing day, did no work, and washed the dog with my husband. We had dinner and now we’re watching a show off Amazon instant video. So nice!

I’m about to ask someone on a date. I’m very nervous.

When you think about how much Obama loves kids, it’s almost unfathomable that he took on the presidency while his daughters were still so young. Look at Sasha when Obama started his term:

I don’t have a getting stood up story, but I got asked out by a guy in the grocery store today. Here’s how things went:

Hiii hi hi! I haven’t done one of these in a few weeks!

like im thinking about making brownies right now so i can eat brownie batter lol. OH WELL :) :) :)

guys ive been sleeping all day and watching season 1 of downton abbey lol. i should get up and clean my apartment but..........

I always liked this pic when a crying baby settles down for President Obama after she wouldn’t with Michelle. I like her faux offended face.

It feels like it’s been a shit week to be a woman, even a woman with relative power. But I know a little lady who’s had her lady parts removed this week, and it was decided that my room would be the recovery suite. I thought you all might like to see a picture of her being the cutest kind of trooper:

Okay, so I got stood up today. By some guy I met on tinder. We had plans to get coffee but he just stopped texting me and left me to freak out over the whole thing. Now I’m just sitting in my dorm room listening to Bikini Kill for the first time since I was 14.

Obama and kids! Have you seen this amazingness? This girl who will miss Obama as our president gets me.

A guy got way too close for comfort behind me in line at the drug store and was CLEARLY checking out my ass, and then said “which one of your parents is black?” and I was livid so I said “WHAT are you talking about?” and he said “you look half black, you look good.” and I said “ clearly neither of my parents are…

That’s how I avoid the nut jobs, especially on the bus: sunglasses on, ear buds on. Works on planes and trains as well.

That’s what I do too. I’m pathetically British about being rude, and I’m single. I get harrassed all the bloody time. It’s not like I even go to places where people go to hook up. It’s at work (I work in retail) and public transport. The default answer is “I’ve got a boyfriend”. Which is pathetic really, because do I…

wtf is this. How does one work out very well? Ugh

Were you supposed to stop for him and thank you for his wonderful and keen observations? I would have been “bitch, I know” ;)

It would annoy the shit out of me that some dude felt entitled to interrupt my workout as I was wearing my headphones, a clear sign of “don’t want to talk.” People can talk to one another at the gym, if it’s kept to a minimum and doesn’t interrupt a workout, but the only time to interrupt someone wearing headphones is…

You can always tell who the white dudes are on the internet. They don’t understand why someone would get upset over something. Let’s just approach everything in a detached, rational manner. What they don’t realize is that it’s their white, male privilege which allows them this smug unemotional rationality in the first…

Oh no, what are you going to do? Some clueless dude completely missed the point and is now taking his ball and going home. Come back, Canweallgetalong! We need your male validation for our silly wimmin feelings!

Well done. You responded to that perfectly. I read that and said out loud “Great! Here we go again!” and decided I needed to make some coffee I suddenly felt so tired.