I am going to unashamedly read the ever loving shit out of this. I was 15 when Twilight came out and started reading it because a friend loaned me their copy on a school trip when I was 15 and I fucking loved it. I also read just about anything I could get my hands on then (and now too, for that matter), but it was…

My favorite part of this whole fucked situation is that they were mocking them for not watching the game.... YOU FUCKERS ARE PAID TO WATCH THE GAME AND INSTEAD YOU’RE WATCHING AND COMMENTING ON A BUNCH OF YOUNG WOMEN TAKING PICTURES? Must not be much to watch on the field then, fuckhead. I’m not a fan of sororities…

I’m 5’10” and my mom got me a two pack of the Kirkland brand (the Costco house brand) camisoles as one of my Christmas gifts last year. At first, I was pretty skeptical. They’re totally my favorite now and they completely cover my ass and I have a fat ass and a long torso. They’re wonderful. Would buy again if I had a…

Newsrooms do this, too, during large and tragic news events. It’s nice to know that someone else out there gets it, even though it’s shitty that anyone else out there would understand.

Ooooo that sounds good! I’m almost out of pears (I always eat 2 pieces of fruit at lunch in an attempt to be healthy and pears have been the fruit du jour for several jours now) but I’m happy for any excuse to buy more!

I’m not exactly a John Stamos fan (really couldn’t stand Full House and couldn’t tell you anything else the man was on) but I agree with you! I thought it was a charming little show with a cute premise and a heck of a cast. But them, I’m a sitcom whore. I’ll watch the pilot of just about any sitcom in the hopes that a…

I got pasta rollers a few weeks ago so I’ve been making a ton of from scratch pasta and sauces. This week was fresh, from scratch pasta with a mushroom Alfredo. Added some roasted chicken and tomatoes too.

Oh Meryl....

Thank you so much for your insight! I really do appreciate it. I just sometimes feel like I’m flying a little blind when it comes to career choices like journalism versus other media fields, so it’s so helpful when someone who has been there can tell me about their experiences!

Thank you! One last question, do you know anyone who has gone back to journalism after moving to marketing or PR? Or is it pretty much a one way road in your experience?

Not sure if this counts as worse, but I was in a wedding once where the bride stopped the dance and the garter putting on thing after the bouquet and garter were caught because the guy who caught the garter was a total creep and the girl who caught the bouquet was like 9 years old.

Thanks so much for responding! I’m only a few years out of college and so far, no one I went to j school with who has worked for a daily has left the newspaper industry to go elsewhere yet, so I don’t have anyone’s brain to really pick. I’ve been working for a daily since a few days after graduating college (I got…

Unrelated to the issue at hand, but as a current journalist with PR/Marketing kind of on the back burner career wise should I want to move back home or want something that has less crazy hours and better pay if I decide to do that whole kid thing, how do you like doing marketing? And do you have regrets about leaving…

I know he’s picking it up from the people he works with. My parents are both very feminist and called either one of us out when we were kids if we picked up sexist slang or something at school. My dad once threatened to pull over and make my brother walk 10 miles home because he kept using gay as an insult. He just…

My kid brother is this hulking military guy, drives a lifted pick up truck, listens to bro country music and owned a Harley for a while. Real man’s man. I was talking with him one day and he said he told his coworker to grow up and stop acting like a girl and I asked him “Yeah, but what, exactly, is wrong with being a…

One restaurant I worked in, literally all the FOH staff was fucking at least one other person on FOH. No one was actually dating someone on FOH though so drama was shockingly low. Just a lot of obvious glances and a few “I don’t want to roll my silverware, so and so got off a few hours ago and promised me beer and…

I’ll give the GOP this much, they’re fucking brilliant. They’ve turned an entire generation of voters into single issue voters: abortion. They look at these people, who claim to be Christian, and tell them “The fact that we blatantly hate people not like us, the fact that we push to keep the poor poor and to cut…

The meatballs lady might be a moron, but it seems like every time my husband and I go out and we have a male server (even though we hold hands over the table or sit on the same side of the booth and have matching wedding bands on) we always get asked “So are you together or separate?” when it comes time for the bill.

Genuinely wondering if the timing of these two things is related or just coincidental.

Seriously. I was in a psych ward for a week when killing myself seemed like a really fabulous choice to make and the amount of crap they confiscate from you is nuts. They took a sweatshirt away from me because there was a draw string at the hood. I couldn’t have toothpaste without supervision. If they’re going to use…