#NoWhiteMen2020

This episode start with the Dwight Fire Drill cold open which makes it the best TV episode in history. Perhaps you have a differing opinion. 

I mean he has a point. It’s such a foreign and alien culture to us regular Americans. The other day I tried one “taco” and it was literally insane. I purchased it from a real life Latinx person. I tried to communicate using a series of gestures and noises. I think I made myself understood because I was able to acquire…

So every once in a while I talk about my dissertation writing process here... well, this week I turned it in to my committee!! Woo! Now I get to wait for their feedback and see how bad it is and how much I need to rewrite in a mad dash so I can graduate this semester. I’ve already paid my filing fee, I’d better…

I spent a goodly chunk of my day vetting a reality show where the panel of white guys ultimately selected... the white guy... as the winner when there was a PoC who clearly met the real world metrics they claimed to be going for. It’s such a bad look, and we’ve had ALL of the trainings on this. I guess it’s a positive…

I may have some good news in a way. After my absolutely insane roommate wheeled my fiancee ( who is blind and brain damaged from a gunshot during a mugging) away and as far as I can tell made him sign her over as his power of attorney and did not allow him to contact me I decided to get on with a life of my own. I am…

Was it a transformative moment for anyone else when Oreos got certified kosher?  No, just me?  I was in middle school and wanted to have a party where I burned every single box of Hydrox... 

Anyone else in the frozen hellscape part of the world? It’s like being in freaking Snowpiercer, minus Chris Evans (why is there never Chris Evans IRL)? I am thankful for my family and job that keeps me tethered to a cold place, but I am gradually learning that I am not a winter person. 

Woo! I’ve got one! So, this chick was the SiL of my best friend, and when the baby shower invites  get  around, my best friend *begged* me to go because “jesus christ Heathens, this bitch is insane and I need a damn witness”

Speaking of baby showers... About two weeks ago I went out to dinner with my mom, and asked her if she would hold a baby shower for me. She said no, resulting in LOTS of tears and hurt feelings on my part (eventually she was better able to articulate why and now I completely understand and am not hurt at all). After…

The sweet embrace of death.

Not to mention: These assholes run their fearmongering on the stigmatization of people with autism. Even if vaccines *did* show a causal link to autism (which they do not, don’t @ me) these folks are saying, “I’d rather risk actual death than put up with an autistic kid,” which is monstrous.

Do it! I didn’t wake up til 9 this morning, which is a feat with a 4yr old. I still haven’t checked the weather or opened the blinds yet, so I feel pretty accomplished in my resolve to not know what it’s like outside.

I don’t know what it is about this week, but I’ve been just very annoyed with men - so much so that I’ve started getting a bit nasty about it.
I just don’t give a fuck.

Hi. I am low.

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I don’t remember any of this, but apparently I was a really sneaky 3 year old. My mom gave me a vitamin Cc supplement, and the pills tasted like nice orange sweets and I wanted some more, but my mom was careful and stored all meds on the top shelf of an upper kitchen cabinet. One day my grandparents came to visit and…

Right up there with the unsweetened baking chocolate. How you learn that the world is cruel.

Once took a turkey meatloaf out of the freezer, then cooked it before it was done thawing. The interesting part was where the salmonella kicked in while I was doing a jigsaw puzzle. To this day I’m not sure how a puzzle piece ended up in the toilet. The likely answer is it got caught in my hair before I ran to the…