Yup. I’m going back to school and got put on my department’s internship announcement list serve, and I’m all, “Nope. No thanks. I’m a mom, I do enough unpaid labor as it is.”

This this this. I just finished a professional certificate program (to be more marketable....eye roll) and am looking for work. If I hear one more person say well if you’d do an internship we might hire you in six months. Um no no no. I am too old to work for free.

Technically you already covered this, but it’s an important subset:

I’m too old to put up with shitty male behavior. I’m sorry, I’ve just had it. The catcalling, the violence, the entitlement, the leaving the seat up, all of it. If you can’t behave like a decent human being, you can get the fuck out.

I think art and science are always closely related. Richard Feynman expressed it better than I ever could:

I recognize Deep Truth the way a mother fur seal recognizes the call of her lost pup from an entire island away.

So, as a man who has never worn makeup, and doesn’t intend to, I’d always been aware that there was real artistry involved. In that cold, logical way that you can know something is true by logical necessity, but not really have the slightest grasp of it.

Your username is giving me life.

Ah, the self-tasked editors of the world. I used to invite the worst of those people to come down to the production office for a friendly debate, but leave a sock puppet for them to yell and foam at sitting at my desk instead.

I feel like Stewart is one of the few women who can pull this off. TLo talk a lot about how her face can somehow take a metric ton of makeup and still look good.

From somebody who’s success in makeup is not looking like a destitute raccoon after a night of slattern behaviour, this reads almost like erotica.

Beware the purple! The red dye in it causes allergic reatctions!!! I had awful hives around my eyes from a beautiful MAC purple shadow.

I would 1000% read and love if you did a ‘Cover Look to Day Look’ type feature for Jez/millihelen.

You are a magical wizard! Thank you so much for sharing this... I have brown/hazel eyes and I just love how this looks on K. Stewart, so I’m thinking of branching from purple (my usual dramatic eye/formal event fav color) to blue.

I would like to be friends with you in real life. Please?

COME DO THINGS TO MY FACE.

1) You are my hero. 2) HOW DO I DO THIS?

Your knowledge of MAC is astounding. I'm so impressed.

Great novel. Would read again.