No problem :) I'm sorry for getting all defensive and aggy. Sometimes you just can't be sure.

Make up can make a huge difference.

Except it still perpetuates a world in which power is conferred upon men but not women, which affects women at all economic levels. But you're right, that's a problem in the first world (and the third world as well, and the whole world, anywhere where women exist) but the power issue is pretty universal. But it's…

Aww, I call my mom "mama" sometimes.

Ha! I was all "Why in the world is Louis CK chiming in on this topic?"

I will eyeroll anyone who can only talk about their diet/fitness program/academia/etc. No matter what you're working on or what your life entails, it's good to remember that a conversation involves two parties. If you can both relate to parenting/Paleo/running/the English dept, go on at length about it. If you can't,…

Thank you for introducing me to a helpful new term.

Obviously Damon got a gander at it numerous times last night while I was sandwiched in between them in my dreams. PS, The Porn Identity. Good Willy Hunting. We Bought A Zoo And Had Sex With Matt Damon. OKAY, I'm done.

I think it's a mark of getting older that I inferred the meaning from the article but was annoyed that I was being exposed to new slang. Get off my lawn, ect. ect.

stop trying to make FACE happen

I have a friend who assumes I'm as immersed in pop culture as she is, who can ramble on for many minutes at a time about some tv show or music or movie that she knows I have't seen. She doesn't mean to be rude, I'm sure, yet I do feel miffed when she does this. Did somebody all of a sudden make FACE a universal term,…

I feel you. This is Day 4 of a 4-day weekend for my kids (NJ Teacher's Convention) and I've given up on trying to do anything. My house looks like a bomb went off, there are overflowing laundry baskets in almost every room, you could make napalm in my bathtub and there is an excellent chance that if I don't get off my…

Ah ok. I didn't realize Gawker Media was running so low on bandwidth they had to start rationing letters 6 at a time.

I'd mellow with age too, if I had someone efficiently running my household and handling the details of all my entertaining for me.

These stories terrify me. How little were these holes that no one noticed them? I'm constantly looking for cracks in my ceiling and analyzing the ceiling fixtures wondering about it. I worry about my upstairs neighbor, I don't think HE would spy on my, but I think he is weak-willed and other men in the building who…

gah. My worst fear is someone living in my house without me knowing (like way more than a bona fide ghost situation). Always have at least 4 people with you when you move into a house and then check your roof space ('cause the only thing worse would be you on your own except for a startled psycho).

OMG POOPVOMITTOWEL. You gave me an asthma attack. Thank you. Thsnk you so much.

I also read that Mattress in the Attic story. Very unsettling. Ah, the poopvomit towel flung into the neighbor's yard crouching naked in the backyard story was GLORIOUS. You shouldn't be grey.

Well thank god he only spied on single women! Imagine if they'd had boyfriends - their penises would have been totally disrespected!