and she's been this great always! recently watched the prime of miss jean brodie, and she is just as phenomenal then as now - definitely worth a watch for maggie smith devotees.

no list would be complete without that one.

winning a battle, losing the war - kings of convenience

better those than the green line, man. i swear everyone i know who has had shit straight up stolen from their lap was on the green line.

hilarious thing: that article originally had a photo at the top (of a kissing couple in tux and wedding gown) - which turned out to actually be a lesbian couple. whoops.

midwest currently, but i used to work in the northwest.

fellow tjs person! i figured they had to be some others around who would end up replying to these comments. which region are you?

in general, it is.tjs pays well, gives health/vision/dental insurance starting at 20 hours a week, we have vacation/sick time, and they contribute to our 401ks.

hawaiian shirts are for managers.

not actually true. in the us, aldi sud owns/operates the aldi chain, while aldi nord owns tjs. i'm not sure how much they have to do in the day to day decisions of the aldi stores, but they're pretty removed from it in tjs land - in my going on six years of working at tjs, my stores have had one albrecht visit.