I will never apologize for my love of Blast from the Past. I don’t care what my plans are, if it’s on I’m watching it.

As I get older I get more and more pro-Aiden too (although I was always pro-Aiden anyway). I NEVER meet guys with any skills though so I’m just happy Aiden knows his way around a workbench.

God, I love your use of “generously be-titted.”

It’s so silly of me to forget that the internet knows no borders. You’d think I’d remember that considering most of my blog audience appears to be in Canada!

I’m in a regulatory office in the federal government (it’s hard to say what I do without doxxing myself as my new field is VERY niche - I think there are fewer than twenty people with my job throughout the entire federal government). The job is kind of a perfect combination of my love of science and some of the…

I finished my PhD last May with a very blah thesis, and guess what? I have a great job that pays well and I get to do work that I am passionate about. Did I set the world on fire with my astounding scientific breakthrough? Nope. I swung for the fences on a very ambitious project that didn’t work out. And that’s okay.

I just changed fields in my mid-thirties. My new job is definitely related to my old career but it’s nowhere I thought I’d be if you had asked me ten years ago.

Oh, man. Welcome to vegetarian Thanksgiving! If you’re like me, you’ll realize pretty quickly that Thanksgiving has always been all about the sides anyway, so it’s great! All the potatoes! All the Brussels sprouts! All the dressing!

If it makes you feel any better about “putting that burden on” your friends, I’ve been cooking holiday dinners for a Celiac sufferer for the past six years and it’s really never been a substantial problem. Most of the time I just make everything entirely gluten-free, but if my father has some request that contains…

My family all requests different potato options, so on any given year we’ll have some combination of twice-baked potatoes, a couple versions of mashed potatoes, and potatoes gratin. I make them all and think “okay, that’s definitely enough carbs” and then the family starts putting in requests for different dressings…

This is such excellent news for those of us still suffering.

Oh, man. I didn’t know that they had started to offer a big brush. Thank-you!

I write myself in any time someone’s unopposed because then I get to write a sitcom in my head about a girl who accidentally elected herself comptroller when no one else bothered voting for anyone for comptroller.

My parents are in a heated planting/plant poisoning war in a condo complex. It’s amazing. A woman created a new “landscape committee” with no authorization to do so and she goes around planting shit in front of everyone’s buildings. When she plants something someone doesn’t like they were just digging it up and…

And that they violate the rules that they personally disagree with while getting angry about anyone else’s violations.

Please share! I am consumed with this story.

Apparently he has a pumpkin patch that flouts the rules.

Whoa. I didn’t see that one. How disheartening.

How sad is it that some of us are socialized to be flattered by this shit? I remember once I was at a party and I was sitting next to a guy friend and a girlfriend of mine was on the other side of him. At one point he grabbed my hand and put it on his crotch, I guess to show me ge was hard. I have no idea why he…

Thanks. So far they just moved him to advising the undergrads (where for some reason the misogyny doesn’t come through in the same way). He’s always been professional and supportive to women under 23 but every woman 23 and over had a complaint about him.