Pathways actually might be really great for you, from that standpoint - the traditional program had ten projects that focused on a different thing for each speech, and Pathways is, I think, intended to be more around growth in a specific sort of speaking. It’s quite probably worth a look, and there is a kid’s version…

I do like it! The caveats I have for prospective members at the moment are two. Or possibly three. Or possibly Spanish Inquisition.

I’ve been actively looking for three years. I have polished my resume, and I have finally removed this job from it, and now I’m getting interviews. (Currently it’s approximately 1 interview per 5 submissions, so I’m doing well. No offers yet, but I’m aiming for getting another five in this weekend.) At this point, I…

I did not quit my job with extreme prejudice, despite the fact that they’re training-by-fire a bunch of new managers, and my site’s team is either deliberately causing problems to see whether the trainees can solve them or they’re not intervening when they see problems happening so the trainees can solve them…

I’m trying to get off my ass and put together a PowerPoint speech (for Toastmasters) that I’ve known in a low-grade way I would need tomorrow for about three months, but forgot about it and was reminded Wednesday night. I have since procrastinated entirely, and it’s loads of fun right now, when I’m just at the “doom!”…

Would you prefer they left it in the street to hopefully find its own way home?

I took an unpaid day off work today even though I desperately need the money so I didn’t murder anyone! I made a good decision!

I don’t know that it is. I mean, I’ve read no articles on the matter, but the headlines seem really straightforward. Unless that is specifically what Michelle Williams said she wanted him to do with the money, I kind of actually think it would have been better for him to give the money to her, then for her to donate…

With the turn of the year, my boyfriend and I are now paying a combined $2000 in rent a month. I can’t complain because it was my first rent rise in 13 years, but still. So with that happening, our priorities for this year are as follows:

Bernie’s message was racist, ableist bullshit backed up with bad math and worse prognostication. We don’t have 5% GDP, and we never have had, so maybe fucking figure out some method of funding things that doesn’t rely on that? Maybe stop assuming that the problems faced by women and racial and other minorities is just…

Not ... exactly. There are male tortiseshells and calicos (a friend has one) who have three sex chromosomes - XXY. They’re wildly rare and almost always sterile, but they do exist.

I think if you’re both basically apolitical anyway, then yeah, the not discussing it thing could work, but I’m not that kind of person. :) More broadly, I think you’re correct that it could be situational - like, if I’m a hardcore environmentalist and my partner occasionally litters, that might not be a bad enough…

Today I had two shitty interactions with middle management at my job - one I reported, one I didn’t because I don’t trust the 2nd MM’s manager any more than I can piss in a hurricane. Both were just being treated with total contempt, so it feels really weird that I decided that I was out of cope, but I found out there…

No. I don’t have the energy to have political arguments all the damn time in my life. I know there are people who thrive on that, but as a hugely liberal-progressive individual, it seems like the opposing views are all just shades of “fuck X people completely in the pooper.” (I know a number of people who identify as…

I think money is easy to give and change is hard to give, and I would rather see change than money every damn time.

I haven’t commented on Jez in any meaningful fashion in almost a year I think - maybe just over. Part of it is that my time changed, but part of it is that I’ve always been gray, and it’s .... kinda tiring, tbh. Like, every comment is performative as much as informative, because hey, maybe this is my shot! Maybe this…

Nah, I used to work in publishing and we did the same thing all the time (all those B&N new releases that are 30% or 40% off or whatnot). It just fucks over the manufacturers of the discounted items, so they inflate the prices so they can make a profit. We used to print books that sold for $100 brand new, cover price,…

Agree. There’s a difference between letting him have an education (as the petition says, that’s a right or damn well should be) and making your marketing materials all about him, as it were. Those are wildly different things, and the message the decision to have him on the team gives me is “If I have concerns about…

And? It would be really, really fucking nice, for once, if a bunch of men could just shut the fuck up about how terrible a woman is and how hard it is to justify their votes for her and lalalala and by the way, the very definition of “privilege” was the guy who was all “oh, I want to dissolve the US or go to…

Well, on the other hand, the number of times I’ve gotten sick from cross-contaminated food prepared at commercial restaurants that meet state legal requirements is not zero, so I like my odds with someone’s home kitchen! Not that I would want ceviche - that has always sounded really, really gross to me. (Not a seafood…