I mean, Barbie was my first word as a child and my absolute favorite toy to play with—still consider my feminist cred to be largely intact. I’m probably going to buy myself the Katherine Johnson one!

That’s a really good idea! I’m thinking of taking the train up to Baltimore for a day to see my childhood best friend, and I also bought myself some new coffee to enjoy for slow mornings this week. Thank you so much!

I really liked it—dark, funny, and a really winsome final performance from Anton Yelchin.

I think it was from an issue of Better Homes and Gardens, but I can’t remember precisely.

Oh, I like this idea!

Alfonso meeting his son, and Amelia having to bring Julian to her parents’ house as her fake-fiance. Also, anything with Velasquez being the most extra person around.

Chicken adobo! It’s basically chicken parts, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, and black pepper (here’s a recipe). You can totally freeze it, and then just pop it in the Crock Pot in the morning; serve it with rice and some broccoli and you’re golden! Best of luck!

Oh, I feel you. I had to do this with the person who is, to date, the single kindest, most decent, most loving person I’ve ever been involved with romantically—but I just didn’t feel for him what he felt for me, and he was too good a boyfriend to be stuck with someone who felt smothered instead of cared for by…

Evening, Jezzies! So, I’ve been in a bit of a depressive funk lately (that had a weird/scary manifestation as fainting in my boss’s office—embarrassing!) and I definitely need a break to heal/sort my shit out. Thankfully, it’s spring break, and I have a week. How should I balance the shit I need to do externally…

Ooh, delicious! I am going to make a spinach and gouda quiche, and probably a sheet pan dinner of chicken thighs with maple and mustard, butternut squash, and broccoli.

I’m a “cut it off straight away” person. Generally, do it in person and in private, unless you have reason to be afraid they’ll get scary. Be brief, be straightforward, and be kind, but give up any hope you’ll do it without hurting them—it’s just going to suck, and the only thing you can control is what you do, not…

Any and all mother-daughter shit in movies tends to make me weepy af. Sobbed through the ending of Brave, ditto Lady Bird. My mom and I get along well and we are close, but there’s always this deep-seated fear that I might one day run out of her approval (this is like 85% my brain being a Jerk and maybe 15% difficult…

Hi! I went to see Thoroughbreds and A Wrinkle In Time at the movies, and at home I’ve been loving El Ministerio del Tiempo on Netflix (v winsome Spanish time-travel show: if you liked Warehouse 13 or The Librarians, you’ll probably love it!) and I’ve just bought a bunch of books for my Kindle since it’s SPRING BREAK!…

I just got home, too! As a biracial girl with a white dad who HATED her hair and glasses all through middle school, the entire movie felt like this love letter to my younger self: seeing a girl who looked like me, being a hero, owning her faults and being loved for them anyway—it feels so good and so right.

Take your star, you motherfucker!

Everyone sing with me!

So I do still have a chance with Jason Momoa! Thanks for the good news!

This is my stepbrother. His first wife cheated and left him for her sidepiece (she took the dogs, she and Side Piece have matching tattoos now, it’s a whole Thing), and that was in June. By August, he had a new girlfriend of about a month; by November, they were engaged, and they got married in January. Yulia is…

She is seriously so fucking cool. Happy Birthday, Virginia!