I catch myself admiring my nails way way too often for them to be for anyone’s benefit but mine.

I feel you. Sometimes i wonder if it’s not so much that people drop their girlfriends when they find a husband or have children, but that keeping up with your girlfriends and spending time with them is one of those parts of self-care that get left by the wayside, like going to the gym or just going away for the…

I’m currently in the middle of an estrangement with my best friend. Former best friend, I guess. It’s hard and I vacillate between feeling guilty and wanting to just cut the chord and move on quickly. It’s been dragging on for over a year now.

The thing that always frustrates me is these guys are always saying “NO ONE” will date them when they usually mean “No one who’s 5’5” with 38-28-36 measurements and a Maxim spread who likes to watch anime with me and make me sandwiches.” Granted, this particular guy had deeper issues, but as a formerly lonely nerdy…

One aspect of this that really pisses me off (bros being irrationally pissed off that girls don’t want to date them, that is) is that they completely fail to acknowledge that girls and women experience THAT SAME EXACT SHIT. I mean I guess to them, we aren’t fully human, so maybe that explains it.

Yes. I do this shit at home, on Sunday nights after my bf leaves for the weekend while watching Gilmore Girls. Even if no one ever compliments me, I feel pretty every time I catch a glance, or when I watch myself typing.

Exactly! I do my nails all the time because having color in front of face all the time cheers me up.

Also, even if it were true that only women notice, why is that not reason enough? We’re more than half the population, damnit! Men—not everything is about you.

My nailpolish collection:

EXACTLY. My nails are all glitter right now.

And it’s legit not the first time he’s mentioned my nails. He once told me that my nails did not match my toe-nails and is that a faux-pas?

He care. He just didn’t want to LOOK like he cares cause MEN.

My bf made fun of me for how much nail polish I own, and said that no one even notices nail colour anyways. I told him at least three people complimented my opal nail polish that week and he said “let me guess, all women, right?” and I said duh yes but who cares? I like it.

What does this fucker do yesterday? “Oh you…

I have more of these than I can stand. I was hiking the a appalacian trail and got to a shelter where the log book told of a horrifically large spider. I found the spider on the back of the shelter and it was the biggest spider I've ever seen (hand size). I slept there that night and when I woke up I was relieved I…

And no strategic posing either, or flattering lights. The intended message? “I *am* this beautiful.”

I’m going out of town to meet my future BFF, Angela Lansbury, apparently. Who knew!?

My cat Phoebe and I were frequent flyers during the time I was in grad school. The $50 pet fee charged by my airline was less expensive than boarding her for the weeks I’d be gone so I always took her with me at Christmas or longer summer stretches away from campus. I’ve never had a cat burrow so hard into me than…

I can’t believe it’s October either but the feminist thing makes me sad.

LOVING my Allure box! This is my second month and I was totally blown away. It was worth it just for the brush. I didn’t like the toner- felt too soapy on my skin- but I am addicted to toners so I’m probably more used to that “clean” feeling I get from the alcohol in others. The gloss was definitely prickly, but I did…

Calling yourself a humanist who “believes in an easy balance (between the genders)“ in direct response to the question “Are you a feminist” implies that humanism is some sort of alternate belief system about gender equality. It’s not. Point being, she chose a non-scary word instead of using the scary F word.

Jesus Christ if people don’t know what humanism is they should stop using the word. Yes even you Meryl.