I used to know a guy who is pretty high up in Baylor’s admin. This ... sounds like his brand.

Keep promoting mediocre white guys to positions of power, academia. It’s working out really well for everyone.

I’ve definitely left a few long-term relationships in similar circumstances. By the time it was officially over, I had been done for a long time.

There have been others that I was less prepared for that knocked me on my ass for ... a while.

I’m sure there are areas of gray between.

We’re keeping an eye out for her, but it was pretty awful near the end. I think she’s probably relieved that it’s over for both of them.

The breakup bit was just a metaphor. I imagine it’s deeply personal and different for everyone - just like the grief thing.

It’s a little like death, though, isn’t it? My grandfather passed recently, and my mother (who has been his primary caretaker for the last decade - and it was a huge drain on emotional resources for the last two) was sad until the funeral, but has rebounded and is enjoying her life anew.

His son, who rarely visited and…

My youngest sibling used to work at an independent bookstore in Nashville that Nicole Kidman frequented when her daughter was small. (My sibling was often in the kids’ deparment although that was very much not her department, and is every bit the pain in the ass that this statement implies.)

She says that NK is every…

I wanted to get married in Vegas by a very specific black Elvis who had the most wonderful sequined zebra-print suit. Or by a Klingon in the Star Trek hotel.

My husband is Catholic and shot both of those things down ruthlessly.

I attended a 22 year old’s wedding in Springfield, Missouri last June. They announced their split last month.

I really appreciate your takes on most things. This thread, and the Kim K thread especially.

Keep being awesome in 2019, Violet.

Yeah. A regular person’s rental.
I LOVE IT.

It makes me happy that their wall is decorated with the same mass produced I-got-it-from-Wayfair-for-a-steal clay plate art that my last rental was decorated with.

I think we can safely file Kate Plus 8 in the ... not as wholesome category? They were cute as toddlers, and I will admit to watching the show. (Grad school was a dark time.) But things went off the rails when that marriage disintegrated, and I do not feel good about contributing to their continued exploitation.

When I started on antidepressants the second time, I slept twelve hours a day for six weeks. When I was awake, I felt like everything moved in slow motion.

I would watch a movie about the hat, but none of the SATC cast is invited to cameo.

A sitting Supreme Court Justice sat through hours of testimony about how he tried to force himself on a woman, and the country collectively shrugged and said, “He didn’t do it, and if he had, it wouldn’t have been that bad.”

I bet the women who were assaulted all felt they’d had one hell of a year, as well. Sympathy meter: 0.

I mean, I’m willing to help out with his funeral today, if that’s what he really wants.*

When I was nine, my sibling and I drank an entire case of ginger ale because we thought we could get drunk.

Kids are weird.

I had great grades and perfect attendance, and mine told me I’d probably have to sell myself for drug money after a teenage pregnancy caused me to drop out. She didn’t approve of my choice of friends.

She loved my sibling, because my sibling was popular and nice to her face. My sibling has been arrested twice and was…

I’m a casual reality TV watcher at best. Is it customary to live-tweet your own show? What is the etiquette?

Ask, sure. Most people have a blind spot where their families are concerned.

I don’t agree with her, and I don’t think it’s right ... but I do think she’s human, and humans are likely to have (major) flaws.