That’s so funny, because I have spent much of my life trying to achieve things (and working really hard for them) and actually wishing that it was all over with so I could just relax already. After I finally achieved that milestone, the Real Job and realized I still never had time or money, I’ve been forced to…

This is what I pictured during this whole hilarious pitiful tough guy fencing match.

Oh god no whyyy

Noooo Bobby! Don’t leave Dirtcast!

I don’t know. A decaying corpse or two can add a bit of spice to a living situation, you know?

No, this is great advice, thank you! My secret fear is getting a house that is actually infested by termites or something, so this is a great thing to keep in mind.

That is really solid advice! Thank you!

Long walks with an audiobook (Librivox is free and I recommend Karen Savage and Elizabeth Klett) were my salvation when I was stressed out from work and grad school. Now that I have less time, I’ve been leaving early in the morning to get to work, getting off the train at least 10 blocks early and walking to work.…

Congratulations on almost being done with graaaad school! I remember the day I found out I’d passed my comps. It was better than the day I got married. My husband is ok with this. I hope.

So...Mr. Man and I went to 2 open houses today and we liked one of them and it’s all starting to feel real and I’m terrified. I mean, the way people talk about equity and inspections and property tax and mortgages and FHA and insurance and second mortgages and etc etc makes me feel like everyone was born knowing about…

Well. I will say that my reading choices are not nearly as erudite as many jezebelians’, but I just finished reading Murder Most Unladylike, which is a delightful boarding-school-mystery set in 1930s England. I read this frothy concoction to take a break from Ross Poldark, which is hilarious but all a bit too much…

I mean this kindly, because I work in marketing but also majored in history so have a tendency toward verbosity—synthesize the hell out of that profile. It is way too long. It doesn’t matter how sweet and well thought out your profile is, because people aren’t reading for that. They’re looking for easily identifiable…

To bolster the explanations below, no one in the Trump administration ever questions Sarah Palin’s status as a citizen or the right of Alaskans to take part in US govt, and Alaska is all the way up there on the other side of Canada.

How do you only have 6 stars??

In our society, we can’t really walk around being scared. We have to function, we have to look like we know what we’re doing at our jobs, and we have to perform these tasks. There isn’t really a lot of space to feel fear and anger and dark emotions, so you go to these movies and you go into this space and it…

Haha I almost always rewind through Piper-heavy scenes these days.

Let’s not forget our friends Gerrymandering and Vote Suppression!

LOLOLOL

Oh come on. This is not the fault of liberals calling conservatives racist. We don’t have bipartisanship anymore. Wanna know why? Let’s look at the rise of Obama, our first black President. So many of us were so proud of what we had accomplished. And then the Tea Party came along and swept both houses of Congress and…

1. Marriage is not obsolete or people wouldn’t have fought so hard for the right to marry. Let’s not insult them just because people have been straight-marrying people of the same race successfully forever and it’s boring or something.