I'm a woman in the lower echelons of the television industry, slowly but surely inching my way upwards to television writer. I have loads of friends doing the same—writers, producers, directors, cinematographers, editors. Don't give up hope on us! We're gonna help those numbers.

On my eleventh birthday, my family came home to discover that our neighbor's trash can from that morning was still by the curb. Ever helpful, I decided to take it back to the side of their house.

Yeah, but it's best water bottle, not "best water bottle that requires an add-on"

Yeah, but it's best water bottle, not "best water bottle that requires an add-on"

Look, I love me some Nalgene for its indestructableness, but it is not the best water bottle. I say this as a person who undoubtedly has used Nalgenes more than most, as I was attending wilderness college during the height of Nalgene-mania. The bottle is unwieldy and hard to grip for small hands. There is a 50% chance…

Look, I love me some Nalgene for its indestructableness, but it is not the best water bottle. I say this as a person…

single friends who make a pact to get hitched within a year

I'm on a mailing list for yacht jobs, and occasionally I've gotten ads that are written basically like this but under the guise of looking for a "deckhand." *vomits*

This might not be relevant to your interests at all, but what about getting into food in a non-restaurant setting? Craft services on a film, cook at a boarding school, live aboard cook on a yacht, something like that? I worked on a tall ship my first year out of college, and we treated our cookie like the goddess she…

My whole office at work is obsessed with this show. Everyone else is so concerned about debating whether or not Adnan did it, but it frustrates me how this has become the question. Barring some huge revelation from the Innocence Project, we're never going to find out if Adnan did it or not. This isn't some CSI episode…

I have an Element and it's great to sleep in! Sometimes on road trips I'll get the cheapest possible campsite I can find, and pull up and sleep there. Not a bad way to spend a night at all.

At my college, the men and women's teams were both officially the Owls, but pretty much everyone unofficially called the women's teams the Hooters. Which I know sounds bad out of context, but the school was essentially a hippy vegan lesbian commune, so it was all in good fun.

...but like, $17,000 for a Rockefeller wedding? Just how mistaken were these people about the exchange rate??

1. For me, Thanksgiving has kind of turned into a nothing holiday because since I left for college, I haven't lived near enough to my parents to make traveling home for such a short vacation worth it, especially seeing as how Christmas is so close. And for the last few years, I've rejected any Friendsgiving…

The college I did my undergrad at had no fraternities or sororities, and to be honest I didn't miss it at all. I had an awesome college experience. Years later, I went to grad school at a different university, a very large one with a Greek life system, and one afternoon while walking past a frat house, I got hit by a…

I have hidradentis suppurativa, and let me tell you, it puts regular ol' pimple popping (not this one obviously, this one is magnificent) to shame. Sure, the little nodes are painful as heck when they're still too far beneath the surface...but once they hit that magic sweet spot and you can pop it....awesome. The…

What bugs me most about this is actually her nails. Gross gross gross. French manicures where the white has been painted so far down that it gives the illusion that the fingernail is attached to the finger by only the slightest sliver and it would take only the smallest bit of leverage to tear it entirely off GROSSES…

In a movie about the first trans woman to undergo SRS they're going to cast someone who hasn't undergone SRS? Ughhhhhh.

I CANNOT WAIT for a non-Christian company to take a case like this to the Supreme Court. I know there's the prisoner in Guantanamo, but I can see right-wingers arguing it away because terrorism. But surely, surely, there's some Muslim, American citizen owned company that can take some issue or other all the way up.…

I just learned the term celesbian on Saturday, and I kind of love it. Sorry haters. (Though it wasn't in the context of "lesbian couples known to the straight media," it was "lesbians popular among other lesbians" so maybe that's less obnoxious?)

I WANTED TO LIKE THIS SHOW. I was excited to turn on the pilot and watch it. But I just...didn't. I found it SO SLOW and I couldn't stand most of the characters, especially the three adult children. "How did I raise three people who are so selfish?" Maura asks, echoing my distaste for her offspring—they reminded me of…

We've already had plastic bags banned in LA for awhile (this whole year, I think? And certain parts for longer) but I'm concerned about the bags for sale. I've seen a lot of places selling heavy-duty but still disposable plastic bags at the register, and I feel all it's doing is increasing the amount of plastic while…