I hate to be that person, but bonobos and chimps are apes, not monkeys. Science, I dig it.

Sorry your heart is too cold and dead to appreciate the cuteness of kitties’ jelly bean toes.

woman does thing, is happy. society burns.

So, let me get this right. Someone did a rape kit, got a DNA sample from the accused rapist, looked at video footage, matched the guy’s DNA to the DNA from the rape kit, took seriously the accounts of another woman who came forward more than a year after the fact, and actually charged the fucker with felony rape…

Attention all news outlets:

Something that everyone should know about me is that I am an unabashed C-Love fangirl. No shame. Hole was THE band of my angry teenage youth.

Yea, it is. Like, worse than Chris Brown. (Maybe.)

God that suckkksss! He should have at least given you the second interview! Job hunting is the friggen worst.

It obviously will depend on the situation, but don’t automatically assume that things will get bad quickly. Most older folks I know don’t even slow down much until the mid-70s.

I said last Saturday that my sister was expecting any day. She delivered Tuesday. New mom and baby girl are both doing well. (New dad is freaking out in a most entertaining manner.)

So, I started college this week and made an A on my first assignment. Doesn’t sound like a huge deal, but it is to me. I graduated high school in 1982, went to college, and partied my ass off for a year. It’s amazing how good your grades can be and how much you can learn when you actually go to class!

Hey my lovely Jez peeps! This has been a weird weekend. Cindymoo’s mom’s partner had a heart attack. For a time that people should be upset, we’re kind of celebrating, and it feels wrong to do so. Her mom took this woman in when Cindymoo and her brother were ten and eleven years old, and this woman has been a force of…

So, my friend’s step-dad was arrested this week and charged with “three felony counts of use of a communications system to facilitate certain offenses involving children”. I was not surprised by this.

The thing that makes me sad is that this girl is getting married in a week. I feel like her life is terrible right now.…

Hey all, I’m feeling yucky right now and need some internet strangers to verbally smack some sense into me. I’m generally a very self-confident person who is body-positive and loving of my curvy, somewhat generous figure. Tonight, I just can’t. I’ve been steadily gaining sneak weight for years (a pound here, a pound…

After being trapped in Nebraska for a week when our travel trailer had some mechanical issues, we’re finally in motion! Aaaand now the truck is leaking oil at a furious rate. We were supposed to be back before the end of August. I’m out of my add meds- for a few weeeeks now. I want to take an angry nap at the whole…

So the humane society I worked in during high school had fenced in areas where you could take an approved dog to and hangout with them (read: cuddle) for a few minutes. Does anyone know if NYC has an equivalent place? I need to spend some quality time with someone who’s super happy to see me for no reason.

I don’t know where to go or what to do. Right now I’m living with my parents (thank you 2008 market crash, a very bad relationship, and an emotional crisis). They are retiring in December of this year. My sister wants me to live with her and her family (BIL and two kids 5 and 2), but I feel like it’s mainly for a free…

Hmm not sure if Saturday night social is the best place for this because it’s depressing as shit. My dad has Alzheimer’s. It’s still early but I’m terrified of the future. He wrote my mom a joke “I.O.U.” today. They play cards a lot and bet (fake) money so he ends up writing her a lot of these. But today he forgot how…

It has been steadily and gently raining all day, and cool enough to snuggle under blankets in bed while keeping windows open. I finally finished watching Netflix’s Borgia, and am now experiencing withdrawal. At one point I had to pee really bad, but, well...

Ha! I’m a social worker in a psych ER... I take a lot of calls from those who are “calling to be admitted.” While I empathize, people demanding to be admitted rarely fit inpatient criteria (for lots of reasons too complicated to go into). This one reminds me of one of my favorites/most frustrating: “I need to be…