I don’t believe in anything and have rounded that up to atheism. Life just happens and humans have a lot shared experiences that “connect” us and then you die and that’s it. I was raised Catholic-ish and was very into that as a cultural idea when I was much younger, but I’m quite diplomatic and couldn’t ever say that…

I just moved back to my hometown after living abroad for five years and only hang out with my family. I tried keeping up with people from here when I moved away, but most people are kind of out of sight, out of mind with friendship and now that I’m back its like “We should catch up!” then it never happens. The people…

My husband told me about watching a cooking program where they took smoked salmon, capers, lemon, cream cheese, basil, etc and blended it to spread on bagels and I thought it was disgusting (like I can imagine that being a tasty spread but the idea of watching salmon being blended makes me feel ill). Now I must tell…

Overheard (in the public library where I work which serves a very very white rural area) a woman explaining to her friend that she always asks for an American doctor and how she doesn’t trust all the Pakistani/A-rab, etc etc doctors at this medical group. She apparently grills them all on their training and where they…

I bought a bunch of clearance stuff from Modlocth recently and have been really happy with most of it. I usually don’t bother with exchanges for online orders (I just return) but I loved this skirt so much I decided to try to size up and the bigger size came today. Now I’m afraid to try it on though because I’ll be…

I did two internships in British libraries and now work in an American public library. Definitely having more fun although it has been creep week apparently. Stop watching porn. Stop trying to steal cushions out of the children’s section so you can take them somewhere more private. Stop leering at women who are at…

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I have a three year old beagle so making sure she gets at least one good walk/sniff-a-thon a day is key to my sanity. :)

Yeah absolutely! It can be easy to fall into unhealthy thoughts relating the steps/activity to what food you’re “allowed” to eat or something similar.

Thanks for such an informative reply! My schedule is kind of chaotic at the moment but I try to get to the gym 2-4 times a week and I walk my dog daily, longer on the weekends, and people are always commenting what a healthy eater I am, so I must be doing something right. However, shuttling between two different jobs…

That’s why I like my FitBit. I do the challenges with friends who have them and we cheer/taunt each other. I’m not particularly concerned with size (I mean, I have my days where body acceptance is tough though) and my philosophy is to enjoy food without stress and to be happy with my body as long as being overweight…

This actually looks like it would work really well. Is that all there is to it truly—just the serving containers? I can’t stand Weight Watchers. My mom has been on and off it for at least the past 15 years and it’s like, come on, this clearly isn’t working for you. I’ve developed my own ideas about food and health as…

Ha well this was in the UK where I think librarianship is still more traditional. American librarianship is more progressive and fun and political in my opinion.

Oh how awesome!! That is such a valuable service. On days when I do outreach and have to take book boxes to rural daycare centers I feel so stressed so I don’t think I could do that job so more power to him!

Total bullshit. The library where I work currently has a male director, but most of the staff are women.

2015!

I don’t think they’re that great anywhere. :/

All of my MLIS courses were taught entirely by men. We had a lot of ladies come in and speak to our classes, but stiiiiiillll.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5344… Re: librarians rock, I read this the other day and got misty eyed. It wasn’t quite right for my story time theme and age group sadly (however Dinosaur vs the Library was right up their alley ROAR!).

My husband and I had several enormous and supremely dumb fights while we were planning our wedding. They were mostly about his insane family, but our neighbors were probably like WTF Are they really fighting about butternut squash again? Stress. Hilarious.