Seriously...that’s awesome. But yeah, onion cutting going on over here.

I’m starring this for the quality of the writing, not the utter shameful way in which Puerto Rico (and the other territories/colonies) are treated.

I used to do usability/user experience work. So basically, I would be the part of a software and/or website development develop team, and my job was essentially to look over the specs and be the proxy for the end user. I would insist that whatever software or website that we were working on actually made sense to use…

I just don’t understand this type of thing, I really, really don’t, and never have.

It’s fine - I go on the occasional recreational dig. (Or did, haven’t in years.) I volunteer at museums, too. It’s not gone from my life. One of my former colleagues thinks I had the right idea - I get to do all the fun stuff and not have to deal with academia or begging for grants. ;)

I’m not sure what that means, but it made me laugh anyway.

I think that’s an understatement.

Wait, what? That’s horrible.

Thanks. Still miss her terribly almost a decade later. It’s the pits.

I feel no guilt. Just frustration. Frustration that an intelligent man thinks it’s acceptable behaviour. Frustration that my siblings - who were raised by the same mother - give him a pass. But I have no qualms about calling him on his shit. (I think my sibs are thinking about inheritance issues. I feel the more…

Dear Media:

For years, I didn’t have to say anything to my father...because my mother had that shit under control. Dad was NOT allowed to spout racist shit under her roof and around her kids. If he wanted her - and us along with her - to stick around, he had to behave.

In the immediate years after she died, he did manage to keep…

Sadly, no to the field work (though Croatia and Italy sounds divine). But thanks!

Over the years, as I heard more stories about my adviser - stories that had mysteriously NOT been told to me when I asked around about who was good to work with - my shame dissipated. Beyond the sexist shit, he was also the type of academic to publish research out from underneath his students and post-docs. (Not in a…

There were some other factors in the decision, but there was just a moment of clarity when I thought, “I am smart and capable. There are a million things I can do to make money while keeping dinosaurs in my life and not have to deal with all of this shit.” (I mean, as a woman getting a Geology degree, I’d already been…

Gross sexual harassment and emotional abuse by men of women in remote field work areas?

Thus proving these assholes are not actually “pro-life.” Just pro-control-over-women’s-reproductive-systems. Because as they let CHIP expire, they have proven they truly don’t give a shit about what happens to the children once they exit the birth canal.

That must be why I love you. I am a Leo from Brooklyn (from when it wasn’t Brooklyn).

For you. I am having A Day dealing with HVAC and plumbing, but this made me laugh.