I visited Stone Mountain once several years ago. I can't think of that place without remembering the woman I stayed with proudly describing Davis, Lee, and Jackson as "good old Southern gentlemen." I'm from PA, and it was jarring for me to hear people talk about them like that.
Why did we allow this hero worship…

West Nile?

I feel like I've awoken on more Saturday mornings than is normal to the smell of sauerkraut wafting through the house. I live in PA Dutch country though, so maybe that's why.

Another woodwind instructor showed up at rehearsal this week, unbeknownst to any of the current woodwind instructors. Without introducing herself to any of us or getting the lay of the land, she butted into some instruction I was doing because she thought it was inadequate, then proceeded to demonstrate the concept…

I hate when companies pull this crap. I don't think a follow up phone call or email is out of line, especially considering the time frame. Good luck!

I paid $10 for an old clarinet at a flea market over the weekend. I figured at the very least it'd be good for parts. I brought it home and started taking it apart and getting all the grime and cobwebs off of it, and discovered the the instrument is actually in pretty decent shape. I should be able to rehab it into…

I'm not sure what wittering is, but I am touched that you put forth effort to do so for my sake.

At first I was all like, Lane from Mad Men is directing comedies now? Then I went to IMDB.

I don't think her standards are the issue…

LOL it's funny because we all know you don't have a girlfriend.

At my last job, I snooped and discovered I was the lowest paid person in my department, in spite of the fact that I had the highest workload. Apparently it was because I did not properly haggle for the salary I deserved when I was initially hired, which seems like bullshit.

Ugh, at least she set off the crazy bitch flare before you got too terribly attached. Seriously, what kind of psycho sends an email like that?

Christ, that's so awful. That poor woman. I hope she was able to come to terms with it not being her fault at all.

Still dealing with some depression. I'm sort of scared to work through it, because I'm afraid I'll have some sort of revelation that will cause me to upend my entire life. My therapist assures me that this is catastrophic thinking, and not a typical result.
Apparently, I'm overly cerebral and refuse to acknowledge my…

My boyfriend's father passed away a couple months ago. He had a life insurance policy on which he named his kids beneficiaries, unbeknownst to them. So, my boyfriend just received a check for enough money to wipe out his college loans and then some. He just sat there looking at it, and was like, "This doesn't…

Dish, girlfriend.

That's the thing! I'm not sure I'd be more devastated or less.

I've never really had a dog. I have a smoosh face cat named Hawthorne who is always standing at the top of the stairs to our apartment to greet me when I come home. My boyfriend says that on nights when I come home late, he lays at the top of the stairs for hours until I arrive. He's a big fan of cuddles.

I read somewhere that the original idea for Jurassic Bark was for it to be about Fry's mother, rather than his dog. But, they decided that that would be too devastating.

This is what happens when you half ass Reconstruction.