I always hear people on E! pronounce it like Raven Simone, but I hope they are wrong and you are right, because that would make me feel a lot better about the accent. If so, I take back my rant.

The only reason I find this surprising is that cats are always accidentally mummifying themselves, by like, dying in an attic and drying out for a few years before being found. They are a highly-mummifiable animal. My high school biology teacher had a room ringed with the things.

I find it compulsively watchable, but I spend all of that time complaining about it. I truly love to hate it.

The acute accent in Raven-Symoné’s name makes me so crazy. How can it be silent with an accent? I know I need to let it go, but I just can’t.

That’s awesome, and it absolutely is! I had wedding cake only because it was included in the catering, but I was a little sad about it.

It is true that during the late hours, I’m practically begging for the d. But I’m pretty well up for it whenever. And if the sex is his idea, it’s probably morning.

I’m so angry, because now I want pie, so goddamn much, but A) I have to chill the dough overnight, and B) I still owe my husband a birthday cake as soon as he is recovered enough from Mother’s Day desserts, so I probably won’t be getting pie anytime soon.

I totally get you. I kind of love Stacey London, but at the same time, when I get it into my head to wear like, head-to-toe polka dots or stripes, I think of her saying, “It’s too matchy-matchy!” and I go, “Too bad Ms. London, I do what I want!”

Nobody is more against matchy-matchy than Stacey London. Unless she has lately changed her tune.

Okay, and I agree about maxi dresses to work, except the first day of my period, as that is explicitly what I buy them for. The bloat and abdominal pain means I either wear a maxi dress, or an actual nightgown, or I stay home.

Yes, and on the first day of my period, I NEED to wear what is essentially a nightgown to work, as on that day, everything else is too painful to wear, both physically and emotionally.

Re: The Jenner sisters: Why would you categorize a lace robe worn over a romper as a maxi-dress? I’m not sure you even know what it is you are criticizing.

What I try to do is only track my calories in, rather than my calories out. If, however, I have a bad day (free donuts in the conference room, for instance), I add my exercise for that day to keep myself from feeling too bad about myself and giving up. Because it is so easy to just say, “Fuck it, I’ve gone over…

I’m also an academic librarian (high five!). I would love it is our faculty asked us for help in that area. When I get an actual readers’ advisory question at the reference desk, I get inordinately excited. But I know the library faculty well enough to guess that we would mostly fall into the “whatever they want”…

I like Lexi. It is a false Latinization, but it is also much easier to say. And who doesn’t love a false-Latinization?

I’m a librarian so: Should librarians think of fair use as a muscle that we have to exercise, and push the boundaries in order to act as a principled champion of the doctrine as a counterweight to the corporations that have an interest in locking down every use of a creative work?

I’ve been wondering this: What if a reverse dustbowl turned the Southeast election night blue?

Fighting the urge to ask you what the asking price is.

On the one hand, I love it here. I moved here after college on a lark, and I pretty much immediately made friends and started working. The drought hadn’t begun when I first got here (I mean, the current drought hadn’t started- it’s always dry), and I honestly thought I would spend a couple of years out here, work at a…

I am probably the only person in the world who enjoyed Man of Steel, is looking forward to Batman vs. Superman, and kind of fucking hates these Marvel movies.