My first 5k was a couple weeks ago and it’s my city’s gigantic “fun” annual race. There’s a walkers option for the 5k as well as runners, and they both start at the same time. At the starting line, the people on the megaphones kept telling the walkers to please line up at the back, runners to the front. I stationed my…

Literally everything? Movies, popular music, games, their friends, radio DJs, everyfuckingthing.

That looks like 2 lunches to me. But, I’m a woman under 5’6” and my daily caloric intake is under 1400 kcal. One sandwich plus a piece of fruit or small bag of chips is a pretty big lunch. Usually I have a packet of tuna (1 serving, 70 cal) and 3 slices of Wasa crispbread. And we have a candy dish at work so I’ll have…

I’ve done work in Catholic schools that are 100% black. It really depends.

Music got me through learning to run, finding what different paces equaled as far as my ability and distance, and helped with the run/walk intervals I used to get myself to 5k, but in the last month or so I’ve switched over to podcasts and audiobooks. Now I know I can just put one foot in front of the other and adjust…

Hounds, dude! My bottomless pit was a black and tan coonhound. He never met a foodstuff he would not happily eat forever. When we first got him, we accidentally left a 25 lb. bag of dog food somewhere that he could get to it and then left the house for about an hour. When we returned, he’d eaten about half the bag,…

I had a dog sort of like this. He wasn’t as keen on the non-edible items, and he was real dumb so he never figured out how to open shit, but if there was something edible anywhere accessible to him, he’d eat it. All of it. Until it was literally coming back out of both ends. Thank god for him being dumber than a box…

My guy was 2 weeks overdue and his nails were sooooo loooooong by the time he was born, and trying to cut them was like defusing a goddamn bomb. It’s just one item on my long, long list entitled “Why I Only Have One Child.”

So clearly I want to work for Harvard? Because at the large university I work at, the people who hold the reigns of the institutional credit cards WILL CUT YOU if you do not meticulously document every purchase and sign all things in triplicate.

Really?! Every time I’ve tried to make a go of using an agent to try and get a better price, the best they can do is like twice as much as just me using kayak.com. I’ve even walked into travel agent offices and explained why I was coming to them and they were just like, “Yeah no, no price you get here will be…

It happened to me when I was a kid. My parent (can’t remember if it was mom, dad, or both) got out of the car to open the garage door but forgot to put the parking brake on. The car was in neutral and started to roll backwards. Fortunately, it just rolled out into the alley and there weren’t any other cars coming, and…

What I’ve noticed is that self checkouts around me don’t seem to have eliminated anything, they’re put in in addition to what’s already there. So, the CVS has always only had 2 registers and usually just one of those registers open at any given time, but now there’s also three self-checkouts off to the side. Same with…

In my state it’s legal to sell, you have to have a license to do so and every bottle carries a warning. (It’s not $15/gallon though, it’s pretty much the same as pasteurized organic milk, sometimes less because it’s local.)

I also use Out of Milk. The only bummer is that I do most of my shopping at Trader Joe’s and TJ’s uses these special snowflake barcodes that aren’t UPC, so I can’t scan stuff into my pantry list easily. I have to enter it manually.

He could, though it would look markedly different than the way things are run now. I’m usually the one that makes big projects that require time and research and planning happen, so there’d probably be less of that. But that’s fine. I have my own system of budgeting and bill paying which I’m not sure he could manage,…

I traveled alone to Scotland a couple years ago. A+ experience, would go again. I vastly prefer traveling alone. It’s the bestest.

My husband’s large extended family is full of incredibly high-achieving men and women. Lawyers, finance, science, etc... I am the only mom of my generation to not leave work. (Husband and I are also the least fancy, career-wise.) Right now, the only other working mom is my sister in law, who was out of the workforce…

I’m aware. And it sucks because with the right management, most jobs could easily be 8-hour-a-day-and-forget-about-it jobs. It’s a massive failure of leadership.

No mention of the social security and 401k contributions you’ll no longer be making, nor the cost of having to stay home much longer than intended due to not being able to reenter the workforce. And the working partner had better max out their life insurance because a stay at home partner is screwed if they die or…

We keep regular office hours because we do customer support (internal customers, so it’s not like we’re supporting people who need us after they get home from their own work), but we are out of here every day at 5:00. Our manager is scrupulous about it, and also scrupulous about all of us taking an hour lunch away…