That “single parent” shit drives me crazy! Being the sole person to care for your kids for a few days is in no way the same thing as being their sole provider forever.

I would take so many naps. I would switch my sleep schedule so I only slept while at work, and then could maximize my free time everywhere else. 

I’m both surprised and not surprised that many of these stories involve higher education.

When I was a kid, elementary school in my area was K-7. One lunchtime in grade 5, I caught a grade 7 boy picking on one of my grade 5 classmates, a boy. There was no way that my friend would do well in a fight with this guy, and nobody messes with my friends, so I marched my tall ass over and gave the older boy a shove…

You’re amazing! Thank you for fighting so hard to make things better. It will benefit all the women who join the department in the future, and women who work with male graduates of the department in the future - they’ll be less likely to see a toxic, misogynistic culture as normal.

Wow.  Thank you.

That’s a huge deal, fair play to you! 

I got the shittiest, most disgusting manager fired at my shitty job *after I left it.*

I recently stood up for equal pay during a contract negotiation, in particular the fact that dividing new starts in six month periods meant half the intake will get no pay increment while half would. Come a month later my issue becomes official negotiation policy so we all get equal treatment. I will also be making a…

Smelly crotch, smelly crotch, what are they feeding you?

because its alabama and he’s white.

Insanity defense: Her hunger for crab legs made Chequita bananas.

“. . . a whispery Marie Antoinette in cheap business separates.”

“I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something,”

Started my lovenox shots this week, and they burn like a motherfucker. I did discover that immediately putting a warm compress or heating pad over the spot once done really helps, but it still sucks. For about an hour after it feels like I get spontaneous bee stings.

Weekly Achievement Thread! Let us know how you’ve kicked this week’s ass. What amazingness did you get up to? Let us crow along with you?

This is so delightfully, adorable!

Well, it’s not the most complicated, but one I don’t mind telling people about. I was studying abroad in Paris, and had a monthly metro ticket, which at the time you were supposed to keep in a little folder that came with it, with a picture of you in the folder. I don’t know if they still have that, it’s been awhile,…

Honestly, I avoid complicated lies, that’s how you get caught. But as a teenager I would repeat a lie so much to my parents that I would start to believe it myself. Like when they caught me with pot right before thanksgiving, and when I say caught me, I mean they went through my room like monsters. My dad would go…

Bernie Sanders’ lukewarm support of Hillary in the general election, keeping his supporters away from the polls, is one of the main reasons we have Trump in office right now.