If you have to go to work, ask your boss for a raise.

Macy’s Herald Square is like my own personal idea of hell. It’s so badly organized, it’s virtually impossible to get anyone to help you, and it’s often unpleasantly crowded. I wouldn’t be sad to see it go.

Sadly, I have to agree. In most of his roles, despite whatever good qualities he brings to the performance, he strikes me as at least a little self-consciously handsome. It took me a little while to pick up on, since in the first film I saw him in, Only Lovers Left Alive, he didn’t come across that way (I’m guessing…

Madeleine Davies, always my favorite.

“I hesitate to make it about being a woman...”

If you’d asked me about this the other day, I’d have said that as a person with a lower-level white collar job at a prestigious college, we are reasonably well paid and enjoy a casual work environment with a good work-life balance. But I just found out that our health insurance premiums are going up by about 75% this…

What Rubbish Custard Tart meant was, “I would absolutely buy this if my girlfriend and I didn’t live in a tiny New York apartment.”

What Rubbish Custard Tart meant was, “I would absolutely buy this if my girlfriend and I didn’t live in a tiny New…

Wrong, but not in the way that you think. That cheap bastard has never bought me a piece of jewelry in the eight years we’ve been together, let alone diamonds. Why I stay with him is anybody’s guess.

Wrong, but not in the way that you think. That cheap bastard has never bought me a piece of jewelry in the eight…

If a lady doesn’t appreciate a good flatscreen, she doesn’t deserve a boyfriend like Rubbish Custard Tart.

If a lady doesn’t appreciate a good flatscreen, she doesn’t deserve a boyfriend like Rubbish Custard Tart.

There’s a reason for that.

There’s a reason for that.

Neither anymore.

Neither anymore.

Thank you, that is just what I needed to hear! Trying to stop freaking out about it now.

I just started taking birth control pills for the first time a week ago, and my breast are soooooooore. Like, day-before-my-period, all-of-my-cysts-are-full-of-fluid sore. Please tell me this is normal and going to subside, preferably in time for me to fit into a bridesmaid dress in a couple of weeks.

Same here! Love the BPAL! And the Crimson Peak line is full of winners.

Agree. And I love perfume. I have a big collection, and I wear it every day. But I only wear perfume oils (with no alcohol, so they have much less sillage), and I dab rather than slather. My perfumes are for me (and my boyfriend), not someone across the room who may not want to smell me.

Their pay is inversely proportional to their acting abilities.

I’m turning 30 this week, and if it weren’t for my parents, I wouldn’t have a smart phone. I resisted getting one up until about a year ago because I considered the data plan too expensive. My parents pay my cell phone bill, though I’ve offered many times to pay for my share; I didn’t want them to have to pay even…

The quality at most clothing retailers has declined so much over the past few years, I don’t want to buy their coats or sweaters until later in the season, when they’re at least 50% off. Even at mid-tier retailers, like J. Crew, they’re blending more and more nylon into their “wool” coats, all the while raising…

Yup, this happened to me at MoMA. Those guards get angry.

Back when I was single, I used to say I was really just looking for someone who (1) is nice and (2) likes me. Even those two criteria were surprisingly difficult to meet.