Thank you so much! I honestly don’t even know where I got the energy for it. I just had to, so I did!! But it was an adventure <3 

I’m so glad you sorted out the daycare situation! Sounds ideal!

Thank you, that’s good to know! I have no idea how many nappies (diapers) a baby needs honestly, I’ll go big! 

We actually both double-barrelled a new one onto our existing ones! Our surnames sound awful together (think Sennan-Newman*, difficult to say together) but we’re both published academically so we wanted to keep our existing ones. But we also both wanted to share a surname with our children. Impasse! So we chose a name…

Starred for rocket tits and also for pointing out the ridiculous sexism that’s still built into the infrastructure of space travel. People were falling over themselves to excuse the all-female spacewalk cancellation on technicalities; the real point isn’t that there wasn’t a spacesuit for that one woman that one time,…

Sending good vibes!

Ugh, what an asshole to do that! You were doing the opposite of begging for money!! We were insisting on chipping in to help a friend, and you were actively demurring. I hope they see your post and feel ashamed, and I hope getting it down on “paper” lets you feel free of it now and you can forget about them and their…

This is so exciting and I’m looking forward to hearing how it goes for you! It’s great you’re feeling optimistic about it, life dealt you a big lemon and you’re making some kind of delicious citrus cocktail with it.

Yes! It’s not even that hot here (Ireland) but it’s supposed to be up to 28C this week and I’ve got all this extra pregnancy warmth, and I am DYING. I’m literally trying to cancel things this week so I don’t have to go out. Like the UK, everything’s built to retain heat and nowhere has AC except a handful of fancy…

Thank you, Maya! <3 I feel lucky to have people like you here to connect with! 

Sell your car?? And then what?? You tell them you can’t do something else bc you don’t have a car and you get told you should spend less on frivolities like school trips so you can afford a car? People can be so thoughtless and judgemental of financial strain, honestly. I’m cross on your behalf that you had that…

~★ Pregnancy/Baby Thread! ★~

Is it too millennial to say I ask my housemate to grab milk and apples for me on the day I’m coming back?

I was also obsessed with Ryo-Ohki! Good memories!

Speaking here as a teacher & godparent, so aware that I can give the kid back after a certain amount of time, but I’ve had huge success with “ask me anything” sessions or “I’ll tell you why” sessions, where I commit to answering their questions as best I can (till the bell for lunch, till we arrive at the restaurant,…

omega = not an alpha (macho confident masculine man) or beta (polite nerdy pushover man); sometimes an insult and sometimes “reclaimed” 

I can confirm that T2 works FLAWLESSLY to enact that twist if you hadn’t seen the trailers or any other information about it. It was somehow a total cultural blindspot to me until I was the hale and hearty age of 26, when I watched Terminator and T2 with my partner and his brother, and I absolutely lost my SHIT at the…

I’m not sure how you’d explain this in a resume directly, get creative I guess.

This is my favourite, I love the angry cat ghost!! 

If it makes you feel better, “failure to thrive” was probably often vitamin or mineral deficiencies (some babies just die of vit K deficiency or anaemia), non-obvious problems breastfeeding (it’s almost impossible to tell how much milk the baby is getting), conditions like cystic fibrosis or Crohn’s disease (anything…