My favourite part of the kickstarter video is the guy standing in front of the whiteboard of Math.

My name has a traditionally female spelling and a traditionally male spelling, but different people I know spell it different ways and I generally don’t care what people use. Some years back I was trying to break into a male-dominated field and I started using the male spelling on resumes. I got a lot more call-backs,…

I made hot and sour soup for the first time. I think if/when I make it again I’ll leave out the water chestnuts. I’m just not crazy about them. Bamboo shoots, however, are allowed and encouraged in my soup. As are All The Mushrooms.

Oh, absolutely. There are situations where a tip out is great. There are situations where... it’s really really not.

BC, and this was like ten years ago, at least.

Yeah, when I worked in the kitchen of a restaurant, I got a share of the tip out. It wasn’t a lot, but it was a nice little bonus. But I’m also in Canada and we don’t have any of this tipped-minimum-wage bullshit here, so the servers weren’t starving themselves to tip us. We all had the same base minimum wage.

When I was seven, I was the kid who was fascinated with bugs. Worms were great, and I would rescue them from puddles. I would follow ants. I would watch spiders and catch ants to throw into their webs. I would play with caterpillars. I would watch bumblebees from a cautious distance.

Okay, so. Shortly after my parents divorced, I was in my late teens and living with my father. Eighteen, nineteen. I have quite a few sisters and the youngest was then about four. My father had a live-in girlfriend for a while and she was.

In my youth, I worked a fruit and vegetable stand on the side of the road. We had a regular who would come by once a week and demand “hot” onions, complain a whole lot about the existence of sweet onions (which we didn’t even have), and then leave without buying anything because he refused to believe us that our…

I’m in Canada, but I work in a pool/hot tub store. We sell 31.5% hydrochloric acid under the name “Muriatic Acid.” $14.99 for a 4L jug. There’s no requirement for ID or anything.

This is a rat I had who liked this video montage of terrible video game physics.

I do this when I see worms in my driveway on rainy days, rather than run over them.

oh god that story. I think I’d forgotten that story.

I had Felicity paper dolls. My sister had Kirsten. Felicity was superior because she had a riding habit, imo.

Hey now, that’s completely different. Mickey is an anthropomorphic animal, and Pluto is not. Benson Detailer is no more anthropomorphic than is Harris.

Funny in the good way, I hope. Thank you kindly!

It’s that easy, is it? I can do this.

1. Why does a terrier need a pet hamster? That sounds like a terrible idea.

I’ve had pet rats for years. I would consider it a compliment of the highest order. Aw, I’m intelligent, adaptable, flexible, affectionate, tough as nails, and know the value of cuddling with friends? Thank you!