OMG - Thanksgiving is all about being extra, so make as many types as you want. I like to make a massive batch (60!) of buttery rolls a few weeks in advance, freeze them, and then have lots of extras after Thanksgiving.

Ugh, that’s a tough one. At the very least, sit down with your student and let him know that mentoring of younger students and leadership are typically expected of postdocs, and he’ll need to step it up a lot. Expectations do vary from group to group, so is it possible that his potential future advisor just wants…

I’ll check those out!

I believe it. I had a bad reaction to The Ordinary’s exfoliating treatment, and it took a long time for my skin to get back to normal even though I just used it once.

I got in a fight with an ex-boyfriend because we went to a party with a lot of rich Silicon Valley people, some of whom didn’t work and spent their days working out and doing self-care. He commented how good they looked and got cranky when I told him that it’s at least a part-time job to do so. He thought I was just…

My skin rebelled against too much product at age 49. Soon she’ll be in the Cetaphil/Cerave club with the rest of us old biddies.

me too. I was always lazy and washed my face once a day.  A few years back I decided to get my shit together and wash it morning and night.  it was a strange revelation to realize that washing my face twice a day was really too much.

Now that I’m 50 and eczema/rosacea/itchiness-prone, my face rebels against 95% of products I try, including products that are normally fine and things that are supposed to help it (rosacea meds, sunscreen, unscented sensitive skin moisturizer, etc). That percentage is up from the 75% or so that it used to be before…

Nah - I know a lot of people who love Costco, both immigrants and folks born here in the US.

I like Clinique City Block SPF 25 (mineral sunscreen only) because it is moisturizing and doesn’t cause me to break out, but it’s a bit greasy. The Elta MD SPF 45 mineral sunscreen is also nice, but after a few weeks of wearing it every day my neck started to get sensitized. Of course, everything causes my neck to get…

I’ve noticed this too. Past a certain age, if you are single and childless it counts against you because you’re diverting from the acceptable norm for women. But if you have kids you also get dinged because you’re diverting from the norm for the ideal worker.

Ugh!  

I’m wondering if the kid were used to having their parents do everything for them and didn’t think it weird that the parents filled out the application.  Otherwise, they’d have to at least be aware that there were blatant lies about their sports acheivements.

This is why I’m suspicious of the claim that the kids had no idea. Last time I checked (which was admittedly back in the 80's) , the kid is the one (in theory) who is filling out and signing the application.  So even if all the kids knew was that their parents filled out the application for them, that is already kind…

Single use packets of face cleansers, lotions, etc are also convenient. Save those ones you get from Sephora/Birchbox/etc, or you can order them from Paula’s Choice.

My brother travels a lot and travels really light. He recommends zippered pouches for your clothes. you can pack your clothes more tightly than with just a suitcase and it’s also handy to segregate dirty from clean clothes.

Totally.

As a woman going through the change, I would totally watch that

My brother and I made a mixtape consisting solely of him belching.  This was in the cassette recorder days so it actually was 5 minutes of burps rather than one burp on repeat.  We then proceeded to laugh like maniacs every time we heard it.  Good times!

The prof whose office is down the hall from mine is a pretty outspoken libertarian, and he’s been going off on this ad on Twitter. I’m sort of amused that he is so easily offended, since he likes to rant about liberal snowflakes. The other amusing part is that he snarked that the men in the ad were pasty middle aged…