Seriously, fuck the haters. Ain't no thing. Last I checked, they are not sporting your boobs or looking over your shoulder while you gaze upon yourself in the mirror. And you are not holding them down and forcing them to get their boobs done too. It's your business and yours alone. Period. End of story. Isn't…

I do believe this is the first Duke positive post I have ever witnessed on Jez. Yippee!

Yes!!! You totally get it. Made me laugh. Thank you.

Parks and Rec

Agreed. 2010/11 is the same time I began my teaching career. It definitely changed over the next few years, but was full of pressure then too. 9/11 changed the economy (and oh so many things); Katrina changed the vision of community service (which was already tilting towards good things) and the economic shitstorm of…

Depends on when you were in high school. It's a very very very different reality now than even 15 years ago. The expectations are higher academically (for AP, etc.) and the college admissions process is nutballs. I say this as an AP teacher for 10 years (until 2011) and the mother of a college junior who followed a…

Wait. Hold on. Am I misreading this post? Is NM now the only state where you may have to deny being raped to get an abortion? Holy roll over in my grammy's grave.

Unfortunately for the teacher, this is part of the deal of being in the profession. I was a teacher for a very long time and I can assure you that students will be distracted by her past. I can assure you that parents will complain more loudly about her policies within the classroom, fairly or unfairly. I can assure…

Throwing my own voice in here to say that I am a thin person at the gym who is always happy to see anyone at the gym. By happy, I mean indifferent. Sort of. If I have any emotion at all, it's "good for you, sister." And without judgement. Because I think "good for you, sister" about every person there, no matter…

I recently toured a women's prison as part of my grad school program. I've been to several prisons now, but only one for women. The biggest difference? Women don't play basketball or lift weights...no, they sit and talk all day long. All day. All the live long day. Instead of joining gangs, they develop pretend…

Would now like to read Caity Weaver's review of this piece.

Do you have Netflix streaming? If so, watch the documentary "The Elephant in the Room" and it will answer your question. It's freaking legal in many (most!) states to have lions and tigers and bears and er monkeys as pets. Crazy. Great doc. Really well done.

I spy pee on the kitchen floor. Adorbs.

Bravo.

Just last night we watched a doc on Netflix called "Absent" about the social and emotional effects of absent fathers. It was a little heavy handed at times and had some continuity issues, but overall it's an interesting watch.

I hear you! My frustration is flaky recruiters hired by companies who promise to get back within a specific time period (set by them) and then don't get back in that time frame...or several weeks after. One of them strung me along flakily for 6 weeks (after promising one week) and then I applied directly to the…

Love. Thank you.

Crazy adorable. Just this morning I could not sleep and watched "Crazy Stupid Love" on HBO. Jiminy Fucking Chistmas...that man is beautiful and deeply appealing. Then I saw this on Jezebel. I felt creepy looking at his kid self a first, but then couldn't help but notice he was and is plain old adorable. Viscerally…

I wonder about the prices as well, but I happen to live in one of the most expensive places in the country.