It's made of beans! And water! So, like, that's healthy, right?

I mostly do, too, but Starbucks coffee to me is not that great when just coffee-flavored. And since there really aren't options in my hometown...pumpkin-flavored it is! I also consider it a separate beast to normal coffee. Which is why I end up consistently over caffeinated during the fall. Because you have your…

Hahaha, yep. It was useful, though, because I only had time to sleep six hours max during the week. I honestly don't know how I functioned.

Hahaha, but actually. I mean, I don't think there's anything more normal about vanilla or hazelnut or almond or peppermint (ew) in coffee than pumpkin, and pumpkin is more delicious to me than any of those things, so why not? I like it. But only some pumpkin spice...some of those syrups do not taste like anything…

I feel the same. And, you know what? August has sucked so far for the world. If we can bring a little of fall in early, maybe it'll at least feel like things are moving somewhere where something could be better. And I'm commenting all over this because I've been too sad to form coherent thoughts about anything else…

Sometimes I think maybe I want kids and then I remember I couldn't give up coffee long enough to use the teeth whitening stuff my orthodontist gave me (two weeks). I pretend it's because I'm a grad student and one day I'll be a real adult but I think that's probably a lie.

The iced latte is not great. The frappucino version is much better. That's basically what I lived on from September-January (they keep making them if you ask until they run out of syrup) in high school, instead of actual food for lunch. Sugar, pumpkin flavor, and caffeine. MMM.

Nope. Pumpkins are not seasonal. Pumpkins are for always. (I might just be bitter that they don't have Starbucks Doubleshots (my beloved rocket fuel of 4 shots of espresso over ice with classic syrup, shaken till frothy, with milk poured over, not that crap they sell in cans) in the UK and looking forward to delicious…

Coffee is good. Pumpkin is good. Combining them is THE BEST. I get back to the states on 24 August AND THE PUMPKINS WILL BE COMING TO WELCOME ME THE VERY NEXT MORNING. Yesssssss.

It's an old tactic. In the late 1500s, Edmund Spenser, part of Elizabeth I's colonial government in Ireland, wrote "A Veue on the Present State of Ireland" in which he referred to the people there as "Papists and heathens, but truely more like atheistes." I also get asked if I worship Satan a lot. I used to explain…

Thanks for responding! I know there hasn't been in the past, but it's an issue I've seen others bring up as well, so I'll send it over!

Would it be possible to switch over from a burner to an account linked to social media under the new system while retaining posting privileges and the like on subblogs?

YEP. And it starts with these sort of ambiguous things, too, which is maybe why something like what Claire's talking about, which does sound on the surface like a compliment and like it's innocuous, can be so loaded. I remember being 12-13 and going into a Starbucks with my younger sisters, and the guy working there,…

I feel about 17, even though I liked 19-22 much better (I'm 23). A few weeks ago I actually told someone I was 17 when they asked. I think it's because that's when I made some of the friends I'm still very close with and really started to become the person I am— not that I really was an adult then, or really truly am…

Yeah, that's the part that made me feel like maybe the parents should be a little more sympathetic? A little kid getting upset that her brother is going to grow is funny. A little kid realizing for the first time what it means that we'll all age and die...not funny. I'm still not over that realization, and it's been…

That struck me too— he essentially said "Well, I know I said knifepoint rape is worse than date rape, but actually if you think date rape is worse than knifepoint rape, fine. What matters is that you're using LOGIC." Um, if one is *~lOgicAlLy*~ worse than the other, then, no, you can't just flip the statement. If…

My favorite is "you can't see your own biases."

Not even necessarily religious— there are (a few) secular pro-lifers out there, and plenty of pro-choice religious people. Can I, as an atheist, now apply to a Christian school as a teacher and then sue for discrimination when they ask for a statement of faith and I say I have none and they don't hire me?

From the video, it seems like she still has the phone.

My mom is Lutheran and my Dad is Catholic, and sometimes my household was like the Reformation. We were raised Lutheran and now I'm an atheist, but I had the differences down very young. We also lived in a very Catholic area and we'd repeatedly get asked if we believed in Jesus.