The not taking shit home with you is why I intend to keep my job in visitor services while I attend grad school. I'll be in school, taking all that stuff home with me. The job can make me crazy (you'd be shocked at how many horror stories come out of a museum) but at least I leave it when I clock out at the end of the…

can I suggest dickens? If you haven't read them or haven't read them in a while, most of his novels are jaw-dropping lay amazing and extremely long. Srsly.

There's so much more to being smart than reading a damn book. While reading said damn books learned me a whole bunch, the most important and durable lessons have come from Life College.

Honestly, your parents were wise not to let you skip. I was also a prodigy with reading comprehension and writing, and it really was a bad plan to skip grades. I ended up with my own age group by the end of high school, minus a lot of social skills I would have learned if I hadn't been the weird smart kid.

young readers ftw! a tangential favorite fact:
my older siblings taught me how to play madlibs before i entered kindergarten, and i thought they were the best things ever. i took them to kindergarten and tried to teach my friends to play...
they just weren't ready. but they learned! :)

I dogged on eBooks when I first heard about them, but DAMN if I don't love being able to carry 30 books around on my phone. I <3 you Kindle app. I was reading college level in 3rd grade and I read incredibly fast also. It's gotten to the point that I've run out of books that I want to read.. I've finished all the…

that is super impressive! you go!

Alas, I fear the abridged version is more entertaining than the full story but:

I really love my interior decorating skills. It's the one thing I am absolutely proudest of. Sometimes I just stare at the stuff in my apartment going "LOOK HOW WELL THE SUBTLE YELLOW IN THAT THROW PILLOW COMPLIMENTS THE CURTAINS." If I cured brain cancer tomorrow, I would still be more proud of how good a job I did…

I started a kitchen fire while making a salad once.

my favourite fact about myself is that sometimes I do my hair from a GoT/fantasy YouTube tutorial and walk around feeling like a queen all say, mentally planning how I would rule the world

Aw, this is a swell post.

As a former service industry employee who now spends 8 hours a day behind a desk, let me just say that this is a whole bunch of bullshit.

Dear Fuckwit Cardinal,
For the last damn time: Not all women use contraceptive pills for the purposes of preventing pregnancy.

1. The contraception you speak of that I can purchase at 7-11—condoms—will not protect me from the following: sudden, excruciating stabbing sensations in my abdomen that make it impossible for…

People not dressing up for FUNERALS drives me ape. I used to drive past a funeral home every day between work and home, and the sight of someone dressed up at all for a service was rare, and even then I'd guess they were immediate family or pallbearers, etc. People were obviously attending memorial services in shorts,…

Walter is so fucking cute, it's ridiculous.

I find this funny on another level. He's clearly doing exactly what he was trained to do (either a "shake" or "touch" command). It's clear in the purposeful body language and the focused eye contact when he's throwing his paw.

Am I the only one who finds James Franco's instagram creepy and pervy?

I've since informed my father of this, but for a long time, he was unaware that people see what he likes/comments on in their Facebook mini feed. I have, on several occasions, seen him comment on pictures of nearly naked women. In one memorable instance, he was chatting with the OP of a picture, talking about needing…

Hasn't your country suffered enough since we sent you Bieber?