I’m not a morning person and I wake up two or three hours before I have to be anywhere because every that happens before 9pm requires twice as much time and brain power as what comes after. It’s hell.

I was never told I smell like bologna. Pierogi, yes, but that was after a five day long pierogi making session.

I mentioned this in my reply to kiisseli, but in case you didn’t see it, I wanted to mention this to you as well, cuz it seems like you’d TOTALLY relate - if you haven’t already, I highly recommend reading Brenda Maddox’s biography of Rosalind Franklin. Seems to me like you and Ros would have had a lot in common!

Oof, jumping in with the observation that your tiny, beautiful, happily-partnered, working-in-a-gendered-woman’s-domain sister-in-law maybe doesn’t have a clue what it’s like to be a woman in a highly educated, male-dominated, patriarchy-value-laden STEM field? So *maybe* it’s her perspective that is skewed, at least…

Why did he tell you now?

DAMMIT I KNEW I WAS FORGETTING SOMETHING

But shouldn’t it involve a spoonful of sugar?

Okay, the Slutty Poppins:

I warn you, there’s a 50% chance I’ll think I can dance (I CAN’T) and a 100% chance I’m going to hug you.

“You don’t sweat much, for a fat chick”

I had never seen “Friends” until I started watching it my Netflix queue.

Seattle is Ground Zero for the new Gilded Age. I can’t believe what we shell out for a one B/B with a cardboard shelf in the fridge and a broken, moldy window.

I also am happy I bought, as a single person. I love my little house, my kitties love the enclosed yard that luckily came with it (I’d have had to build it for them otherwise), and there’s a certain pride in home ownership. Like, I can do this grown-up thing all by myself. Here I am doing it.

Thats pretty similar to my situation. I ended up paying $425k for an 827sf house a couple of years ago. Its obnoxious how much housing costs, but at least I love my little place. And the mortgage is comparable to rent, except that you have to come up with a down payment. I do love being able to write off mortgage…

I spent the day at a first-time homebuyers workshop today. Came out with the depressing realization that I can’t afford to live here. A really crappy, tiny house in poor condition is $350,000. I already knew that part, but I thought I might qualify for some 1st time buyer program, but I make too much money (yay. Just…

If I check “I know I DON’T want it, HAHAHA U FEEL ME?” isn’t it the same as checking yes? Or did I listen to that song incorrectly?

Unfortunately, for the trendsetters, it can’t be about the results. It’s about the action. You did everything you could do to make the Peace Corp, and the government of Burkina Faso look at your case. It was miserable because it was first.

It will be a little easier for the second, who will make it easier for the…

I know people are suss on Papa Frank and think it’s all spin, but I am convinced and totally picking up what he’s putting down. I have not been more proud of my religious heritage in a long time.