One year when I lived in England we had a live Oscar party, which meant we stayed up, drinking, all night long. The next day I taught a 9am class while I was actively sobering up and then fell asleep during a seminar while sitting next to my dept head. In retrospect I think taking the day off would have been a much,…

DIY extracts are really good, and def cheaper than buying in store. Trader Joe's usually has vanilla beans for a relatively cheap price, and lower mid-range vodka is just fine. It's only not cheaper if you don't have a use for the rest of the bottle of vodka.

Yep. I love how eventually they just started orchestrating reasons for Armitage to have his shirt off, though. Even the producers knew there was only one reason people watched that show.

Does it have bits of real shark in it?

I was totally picturing a horde of teeny tiny violinists playing Twinkle Twinkle in amongst the recycling, but your thing probably makes more sense.

I think I know where they got those costumes...

These has seriously improved my Shitty Wednesday-itis.

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Oh dear.

Depends on why you're wanting to end the friendship, but unless it's a very close friend who has committed some sort of gross violation (or similarly unique situation), I think the slow fade is the most socially acceptable way.

I am a super pale ginger white girl, and because of my coloring I can't wear really richly hued lipsticks without looking awful— but I have been loving Revlon lip butters for the past couple of years. They are a lot like Clinique's Almost Lipstick in texture, but you can also layer them on more heavily (for a stronger…

It also helps to breathe through your nose, like big deep purposeful breaths right at the beginning.

YES. She sounded sort of British at points, and like she had an awful cold. I mean, I believe that she wasn't lip synching, because if she sounded that on purpose then she totally needs to fire her entire management and production team.

It was a project cookery day for Senor 'Nutella— he got out the sausage making attachment for the Kitchen Aid and made several pounds of Lincolnshire sausages and some Mexican chorizo, and also applewood-smoked a pork shoulder and a whole bunch of rainbow trout, so we're pretty much set for the next couple of weeks.…

I work from home, and my cat seriously thinks that my desk chair is the 'pet me chair.' Anyone can go sit in my office, any time of day, and he will appear out of nowhere to start with the helping. And by helping I mean using his face to block any attempt at typing.

DID YOU KNOW that Rich Fulcher graduated from law school, decided that he could never be a lawyer, and then rather than tell his parents that he was going into standup comedy, he just pretended that he was working as a lawyer and had friend pose as his admin whenever they called? Rich Fulcher is the fulcherest…

She stayed at school for the rest of the day after finding out that she was a Nobel laureate. I don't know why that stands out to me amongst all of her other amazing, but seriously.

I'm just going to leave this here where I suspect it will be appreciated... http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/0…

Oh, me too. ME TOO. We have the sausage stuffing extension for it, too, although that is primarily Mr Nutella's toy (he's making and smoking Spanish chorizo this weekend, squee for me!!!).

I don't have any room to talk (my cat's name is Bob) but I think Rick is sort of hilarious for a cat's name.