“Hey are you guys licking each other because I’m really good at licking and I think we’d all really like it if I just got into bed with you and started licking stuff and I’m also really good at staring if you’re going to be staring into each others eyes I could really add to that and also it looks like you guys don’t…

I didn’t see the movie because I thought the book was so terrible, but you’re making me rethink that.

Well, maybe you’re still weird. But at least you’re not weird alone.

I was kind of hoping this was going to Shakespeare produced by a bunch of tiny little rodents.

I just did a spit-take. Thanks.

It was a great book. However, I picked it up on audiobook for a road trip and for some reason thought it was a comedy (it’s not). It was too good to stop listening, but my boyfriend will never stop talking about how I “tricked” him into this sad book.

We’re having the same debate in our house over our currently-hypothetical-but-soon-to-be-real children. We’re white and middle class, but our neighborhood school is very segregated (not bothersome) and is also the worst grade school in the state (very bothersome). My partner was 100% committed to private school and…

I watched the first episode, never got into it, never watched any of the rest.

Wait, is there smutty horse stuff? Because I like smut, but I actually hate horses. Riding horses I can live with, but smut + horse is going to be out of my comfort zone.

Any review of these from someone who’s read them? I’m dying of curiosity now.

Yep, we’ve got super cool friends with 3 kids (age 0 - 4), and we hang out with them- and the kids- all the time. Instead of going out, we usually arrive at their house with take-out, all eat dinner together, then my bf and I have another glass of wine and chill for 30 minutes during the bedtime routine, and then we…

If I had a nickle for every time I’ve [sincerely] said “it’s okay, I never loved him anyway,” I could quit this shitty job and ride off into the sunset.

If people stopped saying things that required apologies, it would kind of ruin the business model for the class.

Great, if the directing thing doesn’t pan out, maybe he can teach classes to politicians and semi-famous people on how to write a real apology.

How, exactly, does having a monthly period let you know your reproductive system is working? The entire point of birth control is that you’re reproductive system *isn’t* working, regardless of whether or not you’re getting your period. And plenty of women not on birth control have trouble getting pregnant, with or…

WAIT that’s not the blood fairy?

We recently had a tragedy in my family, and after a few days my mom and I got drunk and confessed to each other that we had no idea what the appropriate “freak out” level was. I don’t want to be the stereotype of a hysterical woman and lose my shit, and besides, there is A LOT TO DO after something like that so who’s…

Yeah, I had labmates with field work that was pretty mild, or seasonal enough that they could plan a pregnancy around it. I was doing crazy shit for field work. There are certainly women who do it, but I don’t think I’d be hard-core (or confident) enough to take a newborn camping and offroading in rural Mexico for a…

Is engineering the worst? I now work in a heavily good-ol-boy dominated field, but it’s still nothing to what I hear female engineers talking about.

I was told this too, because your schedule is more flexible in grad school than it will be later, and you won’t have a “tenure track gap” if you take maternity leave. All the professors were men, though, so I don’t think there was a really good understanding of how logistically difficult it can be to do field work…