Can you pull in anything else to expand your skills through redefining what you do (like, I am primarily a graphic designer/web developer, but I know my way around an Excel spreadsheet so I feature that for more office-type jobs). Or could you look into an online course or a meetup that might complement your existing…

Congrats!

I don’t have any cute kitty photos on hand (and my two shitbags are chasing and growling at each other right now - they are not acclimating well to living together, which has been the state of affairs since August) but I have some hugs for you. That sounds hard, even though it was necessary and your choice. I’m sorry…

Heh, whenever my hs group played at my parents’ house, they were just like “...whatever, you want the house, you get the people in it too.” Partly it’s because we played in the living room which isn’t really closed off from the kitchen and dining room, and partly it’s because my parents were just like “They’re not out…

Give it to your local thrift shop or donate it to a charity. It’ll look good on someone.

My brother called yesterday to tell me that he and his wife are expecting their first child (it’s very early days yet) and that’s good news obviously, because he’s wanted kids forever, but today I am stuck on the fact that once again I’m the different one in my family. Let me tell you, nothing kind of brings home that…

In fact, the act of intercourse should only happen in an ambulance.

No - given the risks that Viagra and other ED medication can pose to the cardiovascular system (source: I may have just made that up, but I kind of vaguely remember seeing something about that once? Good enough!) men who want ED meds should have to have a complete vascular workup on top of the permission note, and it…

Hell, Million Moms or whatever it is lost their fool minds when JCPenneys hired her as a spokesperson a couple years back - maybe 2012 or so? They called for boycotts, it was bananas.

I’ll tell you, the library at my college hasn’t been the same since finals week of Spring 2010. It’s just really gross.

If Kanye isn’t an artist that’s “been given a chance” ... actually, I can’t even finish that fucking sentence. I’m done with today now.

That is not the point of art, as evidenced by quite a bit of modern art (in particular) that celebrates dystopian themes. It ain’t all pretty pictures of nice flowers.

Dresses are too easily lifted for women to tempt men (because no man would dare lift a woman’s skirt without her starting it). Pants are the only way to go. Super dowdy pants. 1970s polyester granny slacks. Or armor would work too.

If I thought there was some huge groundswell of male sentiment against lifting tampon taxes, I would swing by Goodwill and get a couple pairs of jeans and show them what happens when you assume a necessary product is a luxury just because it doesn’t affect you. All over their nice furniture if possible.

They don’t have to tax real people (ie, wealthy men) for that $30/yr x woman shortfall they just created.

Pft, an all-male panel is qualified to discuss whether birth control is medically necessary, what more do you want? Do you want us ladies to have to think? You know what happens when we do that!

Rubio isn’t a viable candidate, though, at this point. Not after the Murder-Suicide, and really not before that, not with his ratings and his comments about not wanting to be in the Senate, and just being Rubio. If you’re looking at who’s likely to get the nomination, it’s Trump or Cruz, at least at this point. I…

DO YOU SEE HOW UNGLAMOROUS I AM? DO YOU?

Agreed. I’m an anthropologist by training, and one of the things I studied was feminist anthropology, where a group of women decided in the 70s to do anthropology from a female perspective (I am compressing and simplifying the situation and there are several schools of feminist anthropology; this is only one of them).…

I found it really interesting to learn that Steven Kloves (who adapted all but one of the books - either OotP or HBP, don’t remember) doesn’t exactly say that he doesn’t like Ron, but does say he much prefers Hermione, which explains why he gave a lot of book!Ron’s dialogue and plot points to movie!Hermione. I am…