I think a lot of photographers do it because it’s trendy, but it also covers some bad photography. I really needed to make sure we didn’t have that problem, because my husband is much paler than me and the kind of blown out photos would have basically made him look like a ghost with no nose.

Uggh, I hate the crazy exposure trend that I was seeing when picking out a wedding photographer. I had a good friend whose photographer used such high exposure that you can barely see the bride’s face in a lot of the pictures. It was so hard to find a photographer that didn’t do it in my area a few years ago.

She was a doctor who Tom was into and was in the filibuster episode.

Fine, funny, but she was kinda playing the straight man against Tom as a love interest. She was a different character than any of the clones though, which lends to my Parks and Rec character is a clone theory.

She did guest on Parks and Rec, which made me decide that it’s the same universe and her character on Parks and Rec is another clone who doesn’t know it.

I agree with this. I had four- my sister, sister in law (who I am close with) and my two best friends. My husband was supposed to have five, but one couldn’t show- my brothers and his 3 closest friends. I have a bunch of friends with families that are a dozen or more kids plus cousins who have a chunk of siblings and…

True facts- I took a class called “Modern History of Asia” in college, which really was focused on East Asian history after 1500. The prof’s area of interest was Korea mostly, so his focus had a lot to do with Korea, then China, and lets just say, he didn’t even attempt to make Japan look good in the WWII era (unlike…

This is how you go to the Met Gala. Don’t show up in some dress that you would wear to any other red carpet event, go big, riff off the theme, or go the fuck home. Embrace a headdress, dress up like you’re on the set of a Star Wars film (I’m looking at you, Anne Hathaway, and I fucking love you for it), have a train…

True facts- my interest in royal children is EXACTLY the same as my interest in cut cat videos. It is driven by adorableness. Babies=cute. Ok, some babies are ugly, but they’re still kinda fun.

So much of my wedding “excesses” came from familial and cultural norms. My family does big weddings with everyone we’ve ever met invited and well fed. I had to tell my parents to stop inviting people because we were going to run out of room at the church. I come from the kind of family where my grandfather’s aunt’s…

My mom and I had two blow outs during my wedding planning process. The first was her asking me what the them of our wedding was and me saying “wedding.” She was so so pissed (she is a woman who likes party planning and themes. I BEGGED her as a child to have a themeless birthday party).

I can’t describe how happy that makes me. Like, the little 4th grader who was in love with the Spice Girls in me still thinks they’re the best couple ever.

I try to find a way to share that regularly. It is one of the greatest things on the internet.

He’s seen some of it, although it seems like a lot of the people who are so Christian that they must go “save the heathens” don’t let their kids explore their heritage as much as the just generally well meaning types.

Yak’s milk, Dunkaroos, an absurd amount of mustard, and magic.

I know we had the same thing here in the US too. “We’re SAVING them from their heathen lifestyles and helping them from being stuck on those reservations that we set up when we gave up just openly trying to kill them.”

From what other people are saying, she was not deaf at birth, but rather became deaf after developing the measles while she was in foster care a few years later.

Maybe if she didn’t, this story will give her a means of finding her baby? I have no high hopes either, but I like to be obnoxiously optimistic.

Go your mom.

My brother works with Ethiopian immigrants and a bunch of children who were adopted from Ethiopia come to the center to learn more about their heritage. It is amazing the number of these now adults who go back to Ethiopia to explore where they’re from and finding out that they were adopted without consent of their…