Honestly, I’m just really glad my parents strongly encouraged appreciating how much diversity we had around us (even though it wasn’t a ton when I was a kid) and part of doing so was never shying away from all of the food.

I lived in India for a period of time and I swear to god, the thing I missed the most from home was Mexican food. Don’t get me wrong, Indian food is the best and while I missed other foods from home, there was nothing I couldn’t live without or easily get except Mexican food. When I got home, the only things I wanted…

I have to say, one of my favorite things about living here is that, due to the fact we’re a nation made up of people from all over, there is a shit load different food. If I cross the street, I can either go to a Mexican place, Chinese place, or Russian place. If I go up the road, Italian, Indian, Thai, German,…

Or if they vote republican they’re like my grandparents- rich white people voting for taxes and not giving a fuck about social issues. The ones that are anti-social stuff have broken out over the years. We had a large split over the gay bish and one of local churches split in two with the conservative group aligning…

We had one in Ohio when I was a kid (I think, someone tell me if I’m wrong, he could have just been visiting).

Really? Ours was full communion and was the standard hour long service (I swear, I have never been in church for a time longer or shorter than an hour unless I was at a non Episcopalian service). We had a decent number of people, but only half took communion, so that part was speedy.

There is a not small chance that my mother and I finally go to the American Girl store with Addy and one of the other dolls and have tea. Yes, I am pushing up on 30, but we’ve wanted to do that since the store opened. It’s not the same though, it was Pleasant Company back then and I totally notice a difference.

My Addy doll did make a dinosaur her pet once... that’s pretty bad ass. She also still has place of honor above all of my other dolls from childhood at my parents’ house. She’s basically Woody if my old toys are alive.

And they don’t take tall girls either, it’s like, a sweet spot on a the average range (I had a friend who’s about 5’8” get cut from every audition before they even saw her dance because she was too tall).

I also always imagine that someone from the 18th century would be disconcerted by how much light there always is now. More and brighter streetlights, buildings with lights always on, areas that are so bright at night that you don’t need any extra lighting to see clearly.

This! I am a white woman who was surrounded by a shit load of other white people in college. I highly doubt any of us would have been turned away in favor of a minority student, not to mention one with lower qualifications like people tend to complain about with affirmative action. Enrollment is growing at colleges…

That makes me really happy. I don’t know all that much about the level of biology they’re talking about on the show (I know more than most people, but haven’t been in a college level bio class in 10 years, and that was still an intro) so just assume normal bad science like other shows. Now I might pay attention and…

You indeed can AND get to witness the Bros of Wrigley accidentally wandering into gay bars and being confused and freaked (as a former resident, it was always truly funny).

Right? It’s like, the same phrasing that a politician uses when they got caught boning the wrong person. I feel bad for the kid who will probably find this on the internet one day.

I was out at Devil’s Tower in Wyoming and there’s actually a sign that warns of prairie dogs and plague by a prairie dog tunnel complex (I’m sure there’s a real name for that). It was basically- warning, these are wild animals with diseases, like plague, leave them the fuck alone.

I’m from C-bus suburbs, and even things outside of Franklin County don’t suck. Delaware County has it’s highlights, Cincinnati isn’t the worst (even though I hate it), and there are definately enclaves of awesome throughout even the shitty parts of Ohio.

Oh my god yes- my conservative ish husband even complained about the right wing evangelists in his econ department. I see one of them on facebook (we have a mutual friend) and want to throw things at him constantly and am glad that neither my husband or I ever had him in class.

I think I got it from the Scholastic book catalogue too!

YES! It was called Running Out of Time, I loved that book as a kid. M. Night Shyamalan also got accused of plagiarism because The Village has almost the same plot.

I always wonder what future societies would think of the grid that a large portion of the US has imprinted on it. Like, if you think about it, it’s insane and impressive.