I would absolutely be down for 100% free breakfasts and lunches all day, every day for schoolkids, from preschool to seniors. Hell, for all kinds of vulnerable populations. Increase my taxes. I don’t care.

There was a 90s anime, Tenchi Muyo! that had a creature called a “cabbit”, and it looked like this.  It also turned into a spaceship, because anime.  My sister and I were obsessed with them.

My dad told me he couldn’t return me because he’d bought me at a K-Mart blue light special, and they don’t take returns on damaged items.

I cannot remember where I heard this, but apparently there were frog heads that would come out and eat your fingers if you hung them over the side of the bed? I can’t seem to find any other tellings of this story, but I could have sworn it was a thing.  Either way, I was so scared of the frog heads under the bed.

My dad distractedly confirmed that little rocks grow up to be big mountains. He was doing something else when I asked him, and was only half-listening, but boy, did I hear that loud and clear. My dad’s an engineer and a professor, so my little preschool/kindergarten brain was like, “Clearly, this is accurate.”

If that’s how he acts under stress, perhaps he needs to have a less stressful job, lest this kind of thing happen again (pretending that that explanation holds any water, which it most surely does not)?

She’s not my area’s rep, but she’s from my state. So many of us are so proud of her. I know she also gets many, many letters and demonstrations of support from across her home state and beyond. I’ve specifically emailed my rep to be more publicly supportive of her, because he’s an old white dude and we need that kind…

I mean, I believe Trump when he says they weren’t close or barely knew each other, because I don’t think Trump has people who are close or who know him well. He seems like someone who just has associates, not even like... buddies.

Seriously, I hate this sentiment. I did leave the US, and it’s not easy to do. You can’t just up and go somewhere. Other countries have immigration processes, too. They also have selection criteria on who to let into their countries and stay for longer periods of time. You sometimes have to submit bank information,…

Right? Like, it would be easy enough to just say, “I mistakenly said ‘airports’ when I meant ‘seaports’.” or something, but... it seems that is not the angle they’re taking.

My rapist did not realize he raped me. It was such a, if you will excuse the term, mindfuck to have to explain to someone that “holy shit, that was rape. Yes, rape-rape. Like... the crime.”.

Also, on a very, very selfish level, I chose not to have children. I have no interest in raising other people’s. Sometimes, this “collective” stuff ends up pushing some of the same standards (you must contribute to childcare, regardless of your feelings about it), and I really don’t want to be a part of that.

I joke that everyone has something that seems really gross that they love. For me, it’s Cheez-its and cottage cheese. I don’t know why.

It was sarcasm!  I promise I don’t really think that!

I buy men’s longline boxer briefs, and I find them to be super comfortable. The boyshort style, for me, ends up rolling up my thighs and doesn’t prevent the chafing!

What to DO in this NEW WORLD where a COMPLIMENT can get you JAILED FOREVER?!?! Every sentence is treacherous, and as women are baffling and capricious, they are liable to change their mind at any moment about what is okay and what isn’t!

I know! People and their... feelings about stuff.

I have a partner who likes to smoke while receiving oral, and asked me if I’d be okay with that. I was nervous about it at first, because of just what you said: feeling like I was “servicing” someone, just an object, etc.

Well, I’m not a teacher anymore (temporary position), but I will keep it in mind for the future :)

I’ve had students miss a lot of class, and part of me avoids asking about it because I wasn’t certain if it was health issues or family stuff, perhaps it would make the student feel “tracked” or something, like I was judging them. I mark them absent, of course, but I leave the other stuff to other people. Part of that…