Hi there, I know this is a little bit of a late reply. I mentor new teachers as part of my job, and I want to tell you that you are not alone in feeling this way. Struggles with classroom management are SO real, and so hard. It is really, really difficult to learn how to control a room of 30 kids, and I’ve yet to see…

I absolutely adore both of these artists and am so thrilled by these choices! I also just really appreciate the reminder that the Obamas exist. Thanks, I needed it.

Thank you! I’m in the early phases of conceptualizing, and this is really helpful.

THANK YOU! This is so, so helpful!

I spent the day at the Korean spa and it was heaven! I emerged looking well rested and competent, which is, like, my number one goal in life.

Anyone have experience starting a business? I’m considering leaving my career as a teacher in the next couple years, but I just really don’t know where to start. It seems irresponsible to leave a reasonably satisfying career that I am very good at, but it seems more irresponsible to compromise my happiness forever. I…

Thank you! It was a long time ago, but I still need to hear that I did the right thing in coming forward at all, and then making sure the administration dealt with it properly. The president of our university said to me “are you sure you want to do this? you’ll have to talk about some pretty uncomfortable stuff. can…

If it made you uncomfortable, it counts. I have a neighbor who isn’t *technically* harassing me, but he leaves his blinds open so that he can see when I walk by, and whenever I do he literally RUNS up and starts talking to me, sometimes yelling after me as I’m walking away. If I called him on it, he’d say he’s just…

I was sexually harassed as a teaching assistant in graduate school. He was in charge of the grad TA program. I got that asshole fired, but he’d been doing this subtle, insidious form of harassment that’s difficult to prove for years. The whole situation fucking sucked. Most disappointing? When all the other grad TA’s…

Definitely say something. I am very noise sensitive, so I totally sympathize. At the very least you can find out of it’s going to go away or not, and if not, take steps to minimize it in your apartment (wear earplugs at night, try a fan or white noise, etc.)

Anyone have advice for changing careers and / or starting a business? I’m a teacher. A good one! It’s inherently satisfying, my hours are good, my vacation time is plush, my pay is decent. But...I don’t know. I just don’t see myself doing it forever, and while I love children, I hate that all of my energy goes into…

Ahhhh I love Philly. I LOVE IT. I think Philadelphia is the most underrated city in America. The area around Rittenhouse Square is fun for food, and they have a great China town. I also really really love going to City Tavern, because I’m a giant nerd and they serve colonial food in costumes AND brew beer that various…

Congrats! I know nothing about law, but I do know that I love your burner name!

Oof, nothing breaks me out like primer. I steer clear of it unless I’m going to an *event*. Moisturizer, though, I love. My favorite basic moisturizers are the Acure daily facial cream for a drugstore / clean beauty option, Aveda Botanical Kinetics for something nicer and a bit heavier, and Glossier Priming…

YES to that Steinem quote!

She’s older than everyone else and she’s already had cancer—it isn’t that far fetched.

Walkr is brilliant!

Have you seen Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce? It is a slightly different premise (the ladies are older, it’s set in LA, and they’re Mean, Powerful but Fragile, Sexy Narcissist, and Artsy instead of Prissy, Lawyer, Horny, and whatever “a Carrie” is). It is basically a modern remake of SATC, complete with the worst, most…

YES, this show just doesn’t hold up. It’s a bummer—I was having a bad day a few months ago and decided to go all early 2000's and just lay on the couch and watch SATC. I couldn’t even finish an episode. It just doesn’t work anymore.

I’d be willing to give it a shot. Someone definitely needs to make a better version of linkedin, which patently sucks and always makes me feel weird, dated, and icky when I use it.