I used to be a very devoted Apple fan, and still love my MacBook and my iPad and iPod classic, but I cannot with some of the new(er) developments. iTunes gets more unwieldy with every release, I hate the push to the cloud for music, and the phones are behind the curve in terms of features.

I miss full keyboards sooooo much. I Swype and it’s fine, but I was so much faster with the keyboard.

This and also that your tools should work for the purpose you have them for. I know that I’ve kept things that were worn out or broken down or wasn’t really right for the job because I “needed” them, but what I really needed was to thrown that tool out and replace it with something that worked.

I used to be completest and then I realized that I was spending too much time on things I didn’t enjoy and weren’t required. It’s also helpful to think about what things do and don’t work for you in a book. I love good writing, but the most important thing to me is characters, so I just dropped White Teeth (even…

If you’re still interested in it, keep going! But only if you like it. Books are for enjoyment (even if that enjoyment is the enjoyment of feeling your brain stretch), not for endurance.

No thanks, please. I mean, I appreciate the thought behind “ladies first”, but the only thing I want to do after I orgasm is chill, and my vagina snaps shut like a trap, so it’s better for me if you go first. In other words, YMMV.

My guideline is “at least $5 or 20%” barring some really poor service that is the server’s (not the kitchen’s) fault. I just feel like a jerk tipping a dollar on my cheap diner breakfast when the woman had to do the same amount of work as the dinner server.

Once you start making money, STOP SPENDING ALL OF IT. I was broke in school for so long that it took a while (and the breakup of a relationship) for me to get my financial shit together, and I wish I would have started when the regular paychecks started.

I’m sorry to hear that — he really does ruin everything. But best wishes for you and your baby!

Yep. Sorry, man.

I never wanted children for myself, but i never felt so hard for parents as I did the night Trump was elected. I don’t know how you all do it. You’re in my thoughts. For real.

That’s what I was thinking! Like, it this three different photos stuck together? Who styled this?!

That’s intrusive. I don’t want to tell my server that stuff.

I totally agree with the reading the room thing, but keep in mind, especially at chains, that servers don’t always have the option to skip the chatter. When I worked at a chain place we were dinged if we didn’t “engage” with the customer and certain douchebag managers would quiz us on our tables (e.g., why are they…

I wish, because that would be hilarious, but no. Most of the time, your server’s just doing the drive-by at that moment because s/he’s near your table for something else. Unless it’s slow, they don’t have time to play games like this.

I was pretty shocked he passed on me because of a hypothetical end date three years down the road. It always made me chuckle going in after that when they had the Help Wanted sign in the window.

When I was a 1L (first year) in law school the interviewing manager at Barnes and Noble was reluctant to hire me (despite prior retail experience and a degree in English), because he didn’t think I would stay after I got my law degree. (...no shit?)

So much fun. Even more fun when the person you’re doing it to doesn’t actually understand what you’re doing because they majored in business communications or sociology or something and doesn’t know what a comma is for.

I miss mine so much. It was getting up there and I’m not the type to store a car, but sometimes I think about it and wish I were.

There’s so much better food there than TGIF, but it’s all at the little stands. You gotta do a lap.