Need to vent about the job interview I had this week. It's a part time job in the social sciences where I'd be reconciling different censuses. It would have been perfect, as I love working with data, it's at the university where I'm doing my PhD, within the hours I'm allowed to legally work (in the UK on a student…

One of the bathrooms in the chemistry building at my university has notices not to stand/squat on the toilets as well. Except these are like professionally-illustrated signs, not stick figures. But of course there's lots of folks from other countries there so there is a possible reasonable explanation for them. Except…

Acid attacks on women is a prime example of this.

In my case, it didn't exacerbate my own stuff at all. I felt like my own experience meant that I could empathize much better. I loved being able to be there for folks. I was able to bracket myself off, which is crisis terminology meaning that I could separate the individual's experience from my own and know that there…

I starred you for the line about it likely coming out in the autopsy report. However, I'm not thrilled with your bit about checking up on people. She checked on him before she went to bed, and thought he was fine. So I can understand how she might have continued thinking he was fine in the morning. Hindsight's 20/20.

I've volunteered with crisis helplines before, and it's a bit of the luck of the draw. The hotline I volunteered with also received local Lifeline calls, so I can see how a volunteer could get frazzled. The calls to the crisis line (a different number than Lifeline) were mostly folks who had problems and needed an ear…

From your comment, it sounds like eating food that is easier to digest might be helpful because it helps the child with autism simply feel physically more comfortable, which in turn could put the child at a better starting point to deal with the rest of the world.

Having no idea how old your daughter is (and not being a parent myself but simply having studied child psych in uni), it sounds like you gave her the help she needed in regulating her strong emotions. Maybe it was that she got that you had acknowledged her desire for cookies and weren't withholding the cookies but…

As a huge fan of both the Muppets and the Beastie Boys, this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

Gay sex probably just isn't in GRRM's wheelhouse, which is fine. Why would he (or us readers) want him to shoehorn something awful in just because it ticked boxes and didn't move the story along (or at least paused it much more than a hetero sex scene that GRRM's happy to write)?

Even if GRRM isn't including any gay POV characters because he's not comfortable writing them (which is the feeling I get, based on his jokey interviews where he stresses his love of boobies), at least he isn't gay bashing in the books a la Orson Scott Card. Seriously, the Shadow series lost me when OSC had Anson, gay…

I've (mostly) trained my cat so that he knows he can play rough like that if my arm is under a (thick) blanket. Although he can still get carried away to where it starts to hurt even through the blanket, but usually by that point he's satisfied with the rough play. Plus the blanket coverage means that even if it hurts…

OK, this reminds me a bit of my cat. He developed some stress-related aggression over the last few years (I think a roommate may have been abusive). There's definitely been times where he just keeps coming at me like the cat does in the video, but usually a 'time out' helps, where I physically get up and leave the…

Oh, it's definitely going to happen. That's why the [spoiler?] infinity stones are showing up in the different films. The Guardians are going to make an appearance at some point, but I don't know when. That's why the film ended with 'The Guardians of the Galaxy will return,' even though it wasn't guaranteed to be such…

I actually wrote a heartfelt post about how well done the opening scene is and how true it rang with me. http://ukmel.kinja.com/guardians-of-t…

And I think Rocket would be greatly offended if you called any of the large weapons he wields in the film mere assault rifles.

Suddenly I'm very very excited about the very real possibility of Loki and Star Lord together in a future Marvel film...

Screw getting a stylist for everyday chores. She's a mother of 3 kids, so getting errands done quickly and comfortable is a must. And for looking professionally made-up as if she was at a movie premiere instead of errands,

I'm kind of surprised that the video is ONLY 3 minutes and 45 seconds long. I feel like Tom's had loads more over the 6 seasons.

It's called observational comedy. Jerry Seinfeld has made a mint out of a bunch of mundane, banal details.