eXistenZ

David Cronenberg. Organ-like nipple-y game controllers. Lots of goo sounds.

If you rest the bird on foil balls or half-onions, you can keep it suspended out of the juicyness, leading to more crunchiness.

I rubbed a beef brisket with coffee, dark soy sauce, garlic and dried mushrooms, and garlic, and put it in to sous vide for about 16 hours. Pulled it out, crisped it on the grill, and then ate pretty much all of it.

10/10- Would do again.

Never a walk of shame. Always a dance of victory.

Gifts are never required. They’re gifts.

Here in Vancouveria, on the we(s)t coast of Canadia, it is most certainly a thing. Like, everywhere.

Yeah. It was better next year.

We’re all just a leeeeeeeeetle bit alkaline to begin with. So if you’re acidic, you’ll prolly be, well, pretty much nearly dead. If not entirely dead. It’s a fact.

I really don’t understand why so many politicians hate women so much.

Sue Johanson, Canadian sex education gramma extraordinaire.

How meta. It’s like the M.C. Escher of television.

I’m a Patient Care Coordinator, colloquially known as a Head Nurse. I do not bang doctors, steal drugs, or develop whirlwind romances with my misunderstood patients. My job is not a calling, it’s a job, but one that I (luckily!) really happen to like.

What I do is manage a 35-patient mixed medical/surgical unit,…

While this story is terrible, the one bright spot is that places where the elderly are housed actually discuss the issue.

Tried to binge watch Breaking Bad. The bleakness was a leeeeeeeetle too much like a gaping maw of eternal despair. Great show, a little much all at once.

Explosive ejections from both ends in a portapotty on day 5 of Burning Man. The poortos hadn’t been slucked out yet that late, hot, sunny afternoon, and the poop pile was scant inches from my bottom. I puked into a ziplock bag so as to not make the miasma of e-shits and beer poop any worse. Lesson learned-…

Sorry about that- To clarify, we have LPNs as well. I ws thinking with my RN hat on :)

It's much the same here in BC, Canada, where I work in a union environment.

I love that nursing, which (in Canada at least) requires at least a BSc and an ability to dodge flying fists, crazy old people, and an awareness that any one person you're working with could turn on you in an instant. Hard science, an ability to defuse potentially explosive situations (unarmed!), and the capacity to…

Men in nursing are more likely to be promoted faster, and, as in other industries, given preference for promotions. Because institutionalized sexism.

I was in my second-to-last semester of my associates' degree in a rather intense field. Saving my student-job pennies, stretching my non-existent grocery budget, and picking up all the odd jobs possible, because we were going to go to Spain together on spring break. And then I got an email saying "Sorry, babes, plans…