Ha yes! Douche is such a great insult because it is something completely uneccesary and likely irritating to my ladyparts.

Favorite rant ever:

Man, if I could knock 48 seconds off my 5K race time in only 7 weeks that would be awesome...I'm going to give this a try!

Hmmm...I'm guessing the numbers would work out more or less the same re: time.

You're welcome. Enjoy.

If you have three days, you can make some beautiful, red beet vodka. Rinse and chop up a beet, place in a jar with some vodka and keep out of direct light (light seemed to turn it a bit brown). Shake it a couple of times per day, then strain out the beets. Such a deep, beautiful red with a delicious earthy taste. …

I am so jealous—I've come close, but I've never done an unassisted chinup. I have immense lower body strength and pretty decent upper body, but the chinup, she eludes me.

Did she accept skiing or diving? Because, you know, gravity does all the work there.

I had an ESL student from Iran who said they used to watch this movie in Iran as a comedy because it was so hilariously wrong in so many ways. She was no fan of the Ayatollahs or the Iranian leadership in general, but the bold stereotyping of Iranian people was laughter-inducing for her and her friends.

Oh hell yes! My constant marathon companion.

Yeah, I didn't mean to impugn all younger men, just the ones that use that angle or attitude toward older women. I've had some perfectly charming and sincere younger men show interest from time to time, and they accept my answer without becoming an ass about it.

"for my kid." Uh huh.

The biggest pain-in-the-ass about the whole cougar thing is that as a free woman of a certain age, I will get hit on by much younger men who think they are doing me a favor by paying (unwanted) attention to me. If I mention that the age difference (20+ years, not just one or two or ten) is a turnoff for me, they'll…

I am going to use "somewhere at the edge of the bellcurve" in every conversation for the rest of the week. Thanks!

I didn't see Don's going to Joan as about his respecting her, but about his ongoing lack of confidence in his own work. The look he gave her when he realized that they won the account not because of his brilliance but because she slept with the client sort of said it all. I think that what they showed of Megan's…

post-bris maybe?

You might enjoy "All At One Point" by Italo Calvino, part of the collection of short stories "Cosmicomics." You and your boyfriend might find yourselves in more than one of the stories :-)

I absolutely cannot watch anything that shows an animal being harmed—even lions-chasing-gazelles type of thing (I'm a lifelong vegetarian, but only recently started feeling that way). I couldn't even watch March of the Penguins because I knew that the mother penguin dies. I stopped wearing leather because it just…

Had a similar discussion in an IT meeting regarding a printer server setting that would have been really annoying. The proponent said that users would get confused without it, I countered that they would get confused no more than twice, which was way more cost-effective than the solution being offered (It had…

I hope that wasn't the only problem you noticed with that movie.