The white women in my family are often undecided in the months leading up to an election. (Mom, grandma, aunts, cousins.) They are the very definition of swing voters. They voted for Clinton, then Bush, then McCain (because my grandmother was convinced that Obama was the Antichrist), then Obama for reelection (because…

I’m torn. I’ll never forgive Ryan Murphy for Hollywood. But I’ll watch Paulson in anything.

This letter is so businesslike that I chuckled. It’s a club! You’re not stepping down from the Board of Trustees. That said, if it works for you, send it. Thundercatsareago posted a more normal template, in my opinion.

I didn’t mean for my comment, with its pink-colored cartoon from The Spruce and a hyperbolic comment about dying on a hill, to come off as anything but a light-hearted discussion about food differences. I don’t personally see that many inventive gelato flavors in the grocery store, but that’s probably because my local…

Yeah, and now that I’ve kind of “made it” past the various traumas of being a first-gen college student/grad student, I get annoyed when people see me in that light. So, I definitely get it. But I’ve also seen how much easier it was for people to navigate graduate school and the academic job market when they came from…

I think the point about class signifiers is really important, but gelato isn’t ice cream and I will die on that hill.

Does a half starving history TA know what a charcuterie board is? Yes. Would they be able to put one together? Possible, as a rare treat.

I have been reading that it isn’t enforced at all. No one really follows up in the US, and you can quarantine at home (if you have one) or at someone else’s home. Kidman and Urban make sense because they’re both Australian citizens. I’m wondering how rich Americans are getting past this travel ban!

Thanks, we are already on an income-based repayment plan. Since we don’t have children, and since my income also counts toward the repayment, it is still very high. The program does not take into account the cost the living in your area, which is where we get into trouble. We do manage to shave a few hundred off…

Yes, my father-in-law is an EU citizen and has been working up the courage to go back for an overdue family visit, but isn’t quite ready (mentally or financially) to quarantine in a hotel for 14 days. And that’s without kids! 

We’ve both got great credit scores, and it does help with housing applications! What really hurt us, though, are student loans. Between undergrad loans and my partner’s professional degree, our student loans add up to a second mortgage. I do think it was worth it for him to have a job he actually likes, but the…

Genuinely curious about who can travel outside the US right now. I thought there were travel restrictions??? How does one circumvent them? 

I get where the advice is coming from, but for me (and most millennials I know), we save as much as we possibly can and still end up living paycheck to paycheck with our “good jobs” and advanced degrees. And that’s just the solidly middle class. Sometimes “experts” deserve to be dragged a teensy bit if they don’t…

Well, it was a program where we gave them all the same clothing/gear, so if you noticed that one of their three pairs of pants had dropped out of the rotation entirely, there was a good chance they’d shit them. Swimming was prohibited unless under supervision, so if they suddenly clomped back into camp soaking wet,…

Lord & Taylor! We’d almost never go in there at the mall. We were firmly in the Sears/JC Penney price range, and we knew it. But mom dragged me in there a few times when I was looking for formal dresses. I felt like an imposter! So I have a tiny twinge of nostalgia reading about this, but only because my mom spoiling…

Worth a shot, thanks!

“Grace” bit her mother and was charged with assault. She also stole a cell phone from a classmate in school. This is not sufficient reason to lock her away, though. She had known behavioral problems and was getting more therapy at home with her mother than she was in the facility. Since she only seemed to be violent…

Bill only has two comments in his entire Kinja history, both on this post.

We reheat/sanitize takeaway from restaurants now just to be safe. (I know, risk of contamination from food is low if you wash your hands. I’m still not taking any chances.) I consider it a grave sin to reheat fast food. Since my partner derives 50% joy from Taco Bell’s food and 50% from eating said food in the car in…

It’s her ego that keeps her hanging on. But hopefully this time she’ll realize that clawing back into the public’s good graces is not worth it. She should have given in the MINUTE Kate McKinnon presented her that award. Her career could have been enshrined behind the glass completely untarnished. But personally, I’m…