Jennnanigans, I’m working on a work capsule, too. What helped me most was to start with the bottom half of my body, then work up. I have two really good pairs of black pants (summer weight and winter weight), a pair of khakis, and then (because I’m a skirt girl) five neutral pencil skirts, one bright pencil skirt, and…

So true! I practice “Inbox Annual” every month, where I delete emails that are over a year old.

‘Inbox zero’ is about reducing the number of emails in your Inbox to zero. People who follow this school of thought generally make a bunch of folders with project names or people’s names, and then they laboriously move the emails from their Inbox to the correct subfolder, or to the trash. It takes for freaking ever.…

Inbox Zero is a time suck disguising itself as a productivity tool.

Has anyone else ever had the odd experience of having waiters feel sorry for you alone-assed self? And how have you handled this?

30% of woman are stay-at-home moms, according to one study. (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/04/08/aft…)

Or save a few bucks and put your bags to use. Open one of your larger bags (like a shopping bag) and store the other bags inside the open bag. I have one shopping bag in my kitchen. It holds all the paper grocery store bags. I have a smaller shopping bag in my utility closet that holds plastic bags. If I need to get…

I haven’t played with this yet, but AutoHotKey seems to have similar scripts to detect input from different devices. Since the first post on the HID home page says the developer is no longer supporting the project it may be good to find an alternative solution. Then again, the AHKHID could also lose support, so it’s…

I used to buy Pyrex, but won’t any longer. I’m not willing to risk exploding glass fragments.

I used to buy Pyrex, but won’t any longer. I’m not willing to risk exploding glass fragments.

Large interview groups are the norm in academic interviews. Plus the interviews can last longer than a day. My record so far is a two-day stint with six different campus groups. The largest group brought twelve people to the interview, the smallest two brought six each.

Those of us with aging parents need this advice. Seriously. How about a whole article on products for senior citizens? And don’t tell me my Mom should read reviews on Amazon herself. Ain’t happening.

You have a vegetable peeler listed in beauty and Grooming. I. Do. Not. Want. To. Know. Why.

You have a vegetable peeler listed in beauty and Grooming. I. Do. Not. Want. To. Know. Why.

I blind-bought a Todd Oldham mini this year off eBay, and LOVE it. I like playing against the seasons and wearing it when it’s cold outside. I also like layering it with leather scents, like Juicy Couture’s Dirty English.

If someone is choking up an elevator then they’re wearing too much. Perfumes don’t kill people, people kill people.

A set of small bowls for mise en place. This can be valuable if you scale recipes frequently. (I’m single, so I scale everything!) If I don’t practice mise en place and instead wait to measure out ingredients when cooking, I inevitably forget to scale. Two times the necessary amount of salt can ruin a dish! I bought a…

I’d need a bajillion dollars so I could purchase the Android equivalents of the iOS apps I already own.

(sigh) The ability to build an interesting, fruitful life cannot be directly correlated to parental finance.

The all-time winner of the You Shouldn’t Have Written This sub-genre would have to be this gem:

Veggie quesadillas. My fridge always contains a Mexican cheese blend and some tortillas. I’m vegetarian, and I’ve stuffed just about every vegetable known to mankind inside a quesadilla. Sometimes I’ll roast the vegetables first, but that removes the no-fuss factor.

The ‘romance’ killed the trilogy for me. He went to the dark side for HER?????? No. Effing. Way.