I’ve been experimenting with Campari lately. Is it weird that I like bitter cocktails but can’t do beer? My boyfriend thinks I’m nuts.

Thanks!

Guys it is less than one week until my New Testament Greek exam for my PhD program. I don’t get a dictionary. I’ve been reading Greek almost daily since April. So far I’ve managed to avoid screwing up my English syntax, and I discovered today that I really understand Paul when I read 1 Corinthians after an extra…

I definitely think, “Hey, I love your ink!” is different from, “Why did you get that tattoo?” It’s a compliment about a choice they made (like you said), and if the person wants to tell you more, yay! If they did get it for a tragic reason or whatever that they don’t want to discuss, they don’t have to say anything…

Seriously. It says wonderful things about the LW that they don’t want to make this woman feel bad, but sometimes it’s good to give yourself permission to be rude to rude people. Why should the LW be stuck with the emotional labor of peacekeeping?

Or act surprised: “What? There’s a scar? Dr. Frankenstein promised me no one would know!”

I thought it was weird that there weren’t any CA cities on that list.

#jesusismydentalinstructor

You left out the part where that letter is the best thing that has ever been written. It begins, “Are you and your staff out of your Constitutionally derelict minds?” and just keeps going.

We really need more leaders who give zero shits about politics, or at least act like they do.

That would have to take cost of living and that sort of thing into account. Not that it couldn’t be done, but it would be more fair to make comparisons between people and jobs in the same area.

There’s a lot of recent work done on ancient sexuality and sexual ethics. Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture by Marilyn Skinner is pretty thorough, and the second edition just came out so it should have a comprehensive bibliography.

I just got back from a meeting with one of my profs about a qualifying exam, where one of the things we talked about was “marketability.” Not even for my dissertation—for my damn quals. After that conversation, and after years of watching my colleagues drop out of the field as the opportunities shrink and the jobs…

I’ve never been to Kentucky. But in Texas, places like the supermarket and Target have HUGE FUCKING SIGNS outside that say very clearly “You can’t bring your gun in here, sorry not sorry.” In TEXAS. If Texans could survive the Great Blue Bell Famine of ‘15 without their firearms in the market, a Kentuckian can damn…

Please explain tomatoes/chard/mozzerella/grits to me, so I can put it in my face. Is it more complicated than it sounds?

Did you temper the egg yolks first? Use a little bit of the hot water from the pasta, and pour it in slowly while you stir. It’ll cook the eggs but keep them smooth so they won’t curdle when you put everything together.

I made coq au vin. There are a lot of steps (for reference, my go-to meals are of the throw-a-bunch-of-stuff-in-one-pot-with-curry variety), but they’re simple ones. And it was delicious over chicken-flavored Rice-a-Roni (I know, I know. Shut up).

Probably very few of them are aware of it, even the ones who were alive when it was happening. I doubt Jerry Falwell stood up and explained it to them.

They can do that with this! Just show clips of that South Park episode and don’t tell anyone it’s not real footage!

Probably both. Cool Pope just canonized Junipero Serra. Ask California Natives whether he’s an asshole.