I think your story is a great concrete example of 2 things: 1) the attitude that “I didn’t have [insert benefit here], so why should anyone else get it” is very prevalent and hard to get away from even as we admit that [benefit] would be better for everyone and 2) how the corporate world encourages those attitudes…

One time I was giving myself a trim (I have very short hair) and I accidentally cut a bald spot in the back and had to fill it in with eyebrow pencil for a day or two to camouflage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have a really excellent set of tapestry needles to contribute for small irritating pricks in un-scratchable places.

It’s my name too, named after my aunt. Never knew more than one or two, until I moved to a bigger city and now there’s one in my office whose emails I constantly get.

My boyfriend and I met at an “End of the World” themed block party in his neighborhood. We were introduced by a mutual friend who had just gotten back from grad school at Berkeley. Turns out all of our friends are mutual friends and we had just somehow never met.

Any recommendations for brightening/evening out skin? I have some leftover redness from acne and also I have ocular rosacea so I’m hoping to contain this before it gets much worse.

Eyeko skinny liquid liner. It comes in a brush-tip pen style and is extremely easy to apply. Does not need to be sharpened, ever. Maybe store it upside down. Lasts all day, sometimes all night. I have “normal” skin and fairly oily eyelids so it’s a big deal to find something that lasts.

We have a few in Denver and one in particular is especially infuriating to me: there’s a street called Galapago: pronounced by locals (wrongly) as Gal-ah-pay-go, pronounced by non-natives and correct folk as Ga-lap-a-go. I had someone (a native Coloradan) fuss at me about this until we looked up what it was named for,…

#WarEagle

Absolutely! Plus it reinforces for your kids that their teachers should be treated with respect and a certain amount of deference.

Intimacy/familiarity is a great way to explain this. At any point if distance is needed between two conversational partners, using a more formal address is completely appropriate. See: teacher/student.

In kindergarten where I grew up (the south) we referred to our teachers as Mr or Ms First Name, and then from then on Mr or Ms Last Name. I have always found Mr or Ms First name to be a nice compromise of “I respect you, but we are also on familiar terms.”

I do not find it creepy, as I was taught that it was the polite thing to do. My friends, people who tell me to call them by their first names, fine. If it is an informal setting - youth group advisors, parents of friends maybe - Mr or Ms First Name. Any other time, Mr or Ms Last Name, or as introduced. No exceptions…

Sorry? I mean, I guess I did not click to see pending comments and missed this. You didn’t need to respond back to me. May I point out that you could have googled your original question and avoided the repeat answer.

As a Colorado resident, please let me reply: No, that is not a lot of weed. I agree with Moriarty, in that a good, thick joint probably has about a gram maybe a little more. I would google for you what an eighth (of an ounce of weed, aka 3.5 grams, aka several bowls worth) looks like but I can’t at work.

The only advice that I can offer here (and fwiw from an internet stranger) is to keep doing what you’re already doing. It sounds to me as though you value the active lifestyle and all that entails; and that you started dating your boyfriend under the impression that he was also into the idea of biking, eating well,…

Without knowing how long you have been together, this sounds as though it MIGHT be a little controlling and I would not want that behavior (of telling you he’ll “work on” your body with you) to continue. My anecdote is that I dated a guy who thought I needed to lose weight. I had gained a normal amount of weight…

At my university we referred to it as the Dan Allen Scholarship. Dan Allen was the name of one of the roads the campus bus system ran on. The idea being if you were hit by the bus you got free tuition I guess?

I call Mr Disaster turtle, or turtlebutt. He refers to me as the same. Something to do with turtle mating/domination rituals originally. Currently I am the dominate turtle in our house.

Yeah! The Hulu Plus password I still use more than makes up for the fact that my old roomie never did her dishes.