We are all Tatiana Maslany.

Battlestar Galactica all the way! The highly serialized episodes made the whole show feel like a movie. Plus, good luck trying to watch only one episode a week. Just ask the Portlandia people.

I recently got a partial manuscript request from an agent at my top choice literary agency and am waiting on a response.

From Star Trek TOS, "Mirror, Mirror"

Does mockery count?

You could easily populate this entire list with Cordelia put downs and still have a hundred more to go. She's the reason I have trouble taking the mean girls of the modern era seriously, because they are all pale, shallow imitations of Queen C. A couple of favs...

Well then.

Perhaps I am very out of touch (I haven’t had a boss in a long time and I wouldn’t dream of asking any of my employees for a doctor’s note), but how common is it for a employer to demand a doctor’s note?

This is true. I haven’t liked the tone of the articles about her (i.e. is the title of this one really necessary?). Lyme Disease is awful. I grew up in an area where it was prevalent, and we used to have to be checked for ticks whenever we went near the woods. I always thought it was annoying, until my best friend’s…

I read a bunch about Lyme Disease after I found out that it’s an ongoing issue for Kathleen Hanna as well. It sounds fucking awful and anyone snarking on it is a dick.

Well, I’m neutral on Avril as far as music or literally anything else goes, but lyme disease is no joke and can really make you very sick, including keeping you from walking and so on. For some, it invades so many cells that you simply can’t shake it off, and the antibiotics don’t really get rid of it fully. You can…

In my (limited but less limited than your normal human) experience, there is no such thing as a “better” hospital room/suite. It might be bigger and shinier and have a good TV, but in the end, the beds are still plastic and you’re still stuck in one.