"has finally conquered the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 of food critique"

I freaking love you.

In addition to his aesthetic appeal, he is a doctoral thesis away from holding a PhD from Yale. Smart is sexy.

It's nice to see that David Duchovny is still effing fine and it wasn't just all the teenage hormones talking back in 1997.

That Sondheim was spot-on.

"What a privilege, to concern yourself with seeming good while the rest of us want to seem worthy of life."

This line hit me right in the gut.

She has great pitch and a really nice folksy timbre. Dig it.

Wow, thanks skymall. This is a great link. My dad is so much like the guy I mentioned above (I know I know...it's a cliche) and definitely shows some of these tendencies and I wrestle with feeling like a bad kid or being unloyal for acknowledging it. Like my therapist tells me, I just have to find a way to walk away…

Thank you for sharing. I struggle to reconcile those two sides too. I was complicit, I enjoyed it, I was so prideful about landing this man who was so out of my league. But he abused his power and authority (he was one of my college professors, I was sort of a non-trad student, starting college at 22) and if he had…

Thanks for all the kind words. I've been waiting for 10 years to tell that story.

I have always felt like a poacher or a homewrecker, but ours was a mutual pairing. He was running from his marriage and I was flattered that he was interested. He laid it on so thick about being miserable in his marriage, that made it easy for me to take an active role in the affair. There is no way I would have…

Thanks for that. When he broke up with me I was a mess, as you might understand, and didn't take it well. And everyone we knew acted like I was crazy, and that I just needed to get over it, because he was such a "nice guy" and had a position of power in the community and was well-liked. But under all that he is…

When I was young (22) and stupid and easily impressionable, an older male authority figure showed interest in me. He was married, but knew just how to play me - he talked about how unhappy he was, how his wife withheld emotionally, and so on. He did a marvelous job of getting me to feel sorry for him and this was my…

Damn ninjas chopping onions in here this afternoon...

I got sucked into this hokum a few years ago because I was trying to figure out why I had terrible heartburn all the time. So I jumped on the trendy white girl train and went "gluten-free" for, I dunno, a week? Then I realized my heartburn was gone, but it wasn't the gluten that caused it in the first place - it was…

Migraines are no joke. I've had them since I was 11, with aura, which includes shimmering lights, watery illusions, and what they call monocular blindness (where you can't see out of one eye). Migraines with aura are often mistaken for seizures because of the visual symptoms. AND migraines with aura present an…

Can't wait for the "Hashtag Great Potato Famine" sign when Notre Dame plays Boise State

Found I had high-risk HPV during the first year of grad school. I was just a couple of years too old for the vaccine when it started being publicized. Got it from a long-term partner. Had the biopsy, the colposcopy, the whole bit. All the while, the stigma was such that my own dad was ashamed I had a, in his words,…

Haircut chick has decent pitch.

You posted this at 4:20.

I was a bridesmaid in a wedding last December where the brides (yes, brides, it was in Seattle) established a travel fund for the two bridesmaids coming from long distances - myself and the poor girl who had to fly from Houston. It was a great idea, copiously appreciated, and made me love these people even more. A…