Modafinil works REALLY well, but even if you get it prescribed to you, as I did, it is very expensive unless your doctor prescribes it for shift work sleep disorder or narcolepsy. The nootropic use is off label and not covered, so you’re looking at $20 a pill. Also, something no one told me is that it can make your…

Uniforms pretty much allow you to never have to figure out clothing choices, I’d imagine.

I love when people say “drawers!”

People like this fool give actual international development professionals a bad name.

What happened to the legal requirement instituted a few years ago that bloggers have to disclose when companies have provided them with free samples to review, etc.?

My business is actually starting and advising nonprofits, so if you have a burner email, I’d be happy to email back and answer questions (for free). It is not hard to start a nonprofit, and the process can generally be completed within three months or so. The fees amount to about $600, and a lawyer will generally…

I’m so much more interested in where she gets her tops.

Well, technically no chocolate is fit for dogs, as it’s poisonous to them.

That’s the exact opposite of how I thought it would be in the South. I’m white and live in the North in a mid-sized city, and I’ve seen black coworkers use the Miss Firstname format, but (as far as I can tell) it’s either used for discussing other black coworkers or for discussing/addressing someone they seem fond of,…

Nope, Midwestern, but cow-country, very rural, lots of Jesus and American flags. I am also given to understand that New Orleans is a city.

I think she thought it was too “country” for a high-fashion model.

I watched an episode of America’s Next Top Model about a hundred years ago and saw Tyra chewing out a contestant for calling her “Miss Tyra.” I was so confused.

My mother calls women of a certain age “Miss Firstname” to be respectful, and does it semi-ironically with her close friends and relatives. To me, it’s like this hybrid thing that you use when it seems weird to call really close family friends “Mrs. Soandso,” but using their first name would be too informal, so you…

Is it just something you aren’t used to, or is there something specific about it that you don’t like? I’m just curious, because it was total normal when I was growing up. The only people I hear doing it in the city where I live now are black people, but there was no race associated with it in rural areas.

I’m told it’s common among rural white people (me), some black people, and southerners. To me it sounds sweet and a little respectful, without the full-on formality of Miss/Ms./Mrs. Lastname.

Where do you stand on the (what I’m told is country-fied) practice of calling people Miss Firstname? For example, Jane Smith is Miss Jane? I grew up doing this and then moved to the city, where people find it befuddling.

It might be the yellow gold. It’s out of fashion right now.

My mother had hers twisted into a figure eight and made into a pendant.

It was mentioned in the video embedded in the post.

Holy shit.