How I do in the summer:

The Japanese love sweet green tea flavored things. Green tea ice cream is seriously delicious.

OOoh twinsies!

RENEW! RENEW!

My husband's sales team (and the CEO) have a habit of selling things that don't actually exist and then coming back to the office and telling the developers they have a week to deliver this totally new, totally-just-made-up-yesterday feature.

Or how about this: employers hire the staff appropriate to the workload.

Rocking the Avent Soothie pacifier, the premier binkie choice of discerning infants and toddlers everywhere.

Heh, it's not a big deal. I had a salpingogram, which is where they shoot a contrast dye into your fallopian tubes and take an x-ray to see if there are any abnormalities or blockages. A side-effect of the procedure itself is increased fertility because just the act of shooting that crap up there I guess cleans out…

No, not this article, but about ten bajillion articles last year. Apparently I have hit a nerve.

Word. What the hell.

I was kind of ambivalent. I mean, we tried for 5 years before actually conceiving but most of that time was more "not trying, not preventing, see where the chips fall." When I finally got off my ass and went to the endocrinologist at the age of 37 to see what was up with my fertility, I was fully expecting a diagnosis…

Fucking spare me. Are we still laboring under the impression that True Detective was some sort of meta-feminist masterpiece?

This is the most depressing thing I've read all day (granted, it's only 9AM, but still).

I had such a similar experience! I mean, I was kind of a little snot a little bit, and I did as poorly in my AP English class as I could get away with, so my teacher was somewhat justified in not liking me very much.

High school class of 92 here and yeah, no. I got into every college I applied to (not Ivy League because I didn't want to go to Ivy League, but good schools like Sarah Lawrence) without that kind of ridiculousness. And I didn't got Exeter, I went to Catholic school in Pittsburgh. I was in the upper third of my class…

Ding Ding Ding! I'm 40 and went to a medium-fancy parochial school where we were hot shit for offering AP English, Bio and Physics. (I took English and Bio—got a 5 on English, 3 on Bio) It was a brand new thing back then, entry to AP courses was very limited—only one period of each was offered—and it was seen as an…

Our in-state public universities are the most expensive in the country D:

For undergrad, I got a full ride thanks to my dad being a professor. If I had had to get loans for that, it would have been an overwhelming no, not worth it. I got a BA double major in English and Anthroplogy. This was back in the early 90s where the myth about how having any BA is impressive to employers because it…

Yeah, I'm trying to keep it between 1400 and 1500 right now (I have a sedentary job, so my 30 minutes at the gym doesn't make much of a dent and I'm currently a fatty mcfatterson with no muscle mass to boost my BMR). Dudes proclaiming that it's soooo easssyyyy to eat less to lose weight make me ragey.

No, it's evangelizing. If you've never been told by a poly person that they pity how square and vanilla you are and really monogamy just isn't natural (and hey all the cool kids are doing it), you're a luckier person than me. I mean, yes, it's an orientation that still is faced with a tremendous amount of prejudice…