For assholes like that, everything is a competition.

She’s my cousin-in-law. She’s about 37, a former beauty queen, a mother of two who are old enough that she’s become a kid taxi, and a huge fan of the hashtag #soblessed.

That seems wise.

I usually read Dirt Bag over breakfast.

You do realize that public ed requires an entirely different set of degrees, right?

So we should start screaming voter fraud and demanding a recount?

I mean, in some ways he’s not wrong? When you’re forcing people to spend a small country’s gross on tuition, they get a little more demanding about what their experience is like. There’s a lot more pressure on faculty to retain students by accommodating their whims - and the lack of critical thinking skills in…

How does it go again

We did the same, but my school was public. And they fought hard at any suggestion it wasn’t legal.

I assumed. But she’s clearly loathing the process of earning. 

My husband sort of is. It’s pretty stupid, because if I were Catholic I’d be going to bed earlier on Saturdays and getting up for mass on Sunday. (I don’t do anything by half measures.) They were pretty rude, so I don’t.

The thing is, he used to, and now he kinda just does what I do, because he enjoys spending time…

My inlaws are still scandalized, and my mother in law isn’t convinced that if we had children, they’d be legitimate.

I don’t plan to have any, but if I do, I can’t wait to call the little baby a bastard all the time.

My grandparents definitely got married with a mass, and my grandmother definitely wasn’t Catholic.

It’s whatever. I don’t need an interpretation of God where God doesn’t like me as much because my parents were from .... interfaith marriages.

I meant Avril more than you. Do you also dance halfheartedly in costumes that don’t really seem your speed for money?

It’s fascinating when you can watch someone actively hating their life (in a non-threatening situation).

I once attended a wedding in North Dakota in July that didn’t have AC. The fiance of the gal I was sitting with complained relentlessly there was no AC. He swore up and down his wedding would have AC. He said it so many times the sound of his voice saying AC AC AC AC is etched permanently in my memory.

They got married…

I’m not really in the habit of asking a lot of follow-up questions when people are dismissive and rude. He said no, I spent the rest of the class being vaguely rude and intentionally difficult.

The husband and I are still married and I’m still not Catholic.

I didn’t give a shit about the mass - just the Catholic member of our marriage.

I did care a lot about AC, so the church we used definitely had that.

We were in classes a year ahead of the wedding, per their rules. The conversion process my sibling went through took about eight weeks.

They only rented out the church in blocks of time sufficient for the full mass, we just couldn’t have it.

It’s my understanding he wasn’t being a jerk so much as reporting the rules set…

That isn’t how they roll? I dunno. After he quickly shut it down, I didn’t feel welcome and wasn’t interested?