Candy corn is amazing.

Dont feel bad. My kid can read and write, but cant tie his shoes and still shits his pants at least once a day.

I’m definitely not afraid of looking my age - but I am afraid of looking afraid to look my age.

these passwords are so fucking insecure I can’t stand it

So are parts of my Facebook feed. I should just hide these family members, but I don’t because they remind me that civil rights have a long way to go (kind of like reading yahoo comments).

Okay, maybe it’s the wine, but fuck everything about this. The time has come, and it has passed. A long time ago. They are inviting women to join only because women across the US are creating their own non-exclusive societies and are kicking their asses at life. Carry on, strong women.

First stop during orientation: “And here’s the stuff to make sandwiches...”

“There is a strong sense that it’s an idea whose time has come, given the role of women in the classroom and the world of work after Harvard,” John Hanson, vice president of the Spee’s graduate board, told the NYT.

“There is a strong sense that it’s an idea whose time has come,”

Hooray now every hyper-priveledged white person can beome a ruling class Brahmin! Progress! Success! This is definitely feminism! Forging feminism through hypercapitalism one step at a time! Everyone who makes more than 700 thousand dollar a year high five me!

You know what happens after the “but”: contradiction.

Well done you!

Man, I am always late to these lately. I should stop doing the dishes and just hang out on my iPad instead.

Last week on SNS I posted about my father’s impending death, and so many of you replied to me with your own stories of dealing with dying loved ones. It was more helpful than you can imagine. I just wanted to update and say that my dad died early on Sunday morning, about 10 hours after I posted my story here. It was…

I find NPR does a good job and I don’t have to do a lot of heavy lifting.

Hey all! It’s a delightfully quiet Saturday night here. I don’t have a query for SNS this week though. Instead, I’d just like thank all of you delightful divas and weirdos for being my online family. I’m so goddamn grateful for your friendship and support!

I found a great pair at TJ Maxx last year. I don’t remember the brand but they actually said thermal leggings, not just fleeced lined. They were thin but warm*

I enjoy Jez a lot, primarily because of the comment section. It’s kind of like how I feel about the “news:” I get/got all the information I ever needed to know from Jon Stewart; similarly, while I fully understand that so many things addressed by Jez staffers are 1) wrong; 2) inadequately researched; 3) sanctimonious…

Seriously, she’s the worst person in the world.

It also claims that her clerks were “coerced by the threat of contempt sanctions” into granting marriage licenses.