Stanzi2 had a brill idea to do a GT NYC get together. I suggested the dumplings, because when is it not time for dumplings? We thought maybe we could hang in the morningside heights/manhattanville area - but I imagine we could be lured down south a bit if that was more convenient for others. I could particularly be…

I was just in a meeting, and my housemate texted 4 times during it to tell me that she “hoped” I would clear out the boxes and stuff from the living room “soon” because it’s not really usable.

For those of you who do or have lived successfully with roommates - can you share some tips with me? Also, if you want to vent about your own housemate issues - please do so!

So this is officially day day 4 in NYC (how can that be?). It’s been mostly amazing thus far, with some disappointing job stuff thrown in.

The cats cried a bit in the uber on the way to the airport, but then not again until we were in an uber on the way to the airbnb. I was stunned - they were so good and calm - such good little troopers. I am extremely exhausted from moving and packing and worrying! My last night in Chicago, all of my furniture was…

My stuff is all in the truck. Junk all hauled away. Cats got their rabies shots, and one of them got groomed (and apparently she gave the groomer kisses the whole time!). I didn’t clean as much as I wanted/intended to - I’m just too worn out.

My mom messaged me via facebook today (too many ways for the iphone/computer-savvy septuagenarian set to harass their children!) to see if I was done packing yet. I hate questions in which there is an actual or implied “yet.” Better questions are things like, “how is the packing going” or “how are you feeling about…

I move to NYC in a little over a week (eek!). I can’t believe it is actually happening - I’m so stressed out about every little thing and have so much to do still!

I feel like we need a place to talk about stuff tonight. Talk about whatever you want - good or bad, or in between. Talk about the white supremacists, Trump, politics ... or TayTay or cats or your dream vacation .... anything.

I keep wanting to start a semi-regular post that is super duper superficial in which I visit a clothing website and pick out the 5 (or so) most hideous pieces of clothing - just for fun! And then ask others to do the same. Anyone wanna play?The only rule is that you have to pull them from the “new arrivals” section.…

Having grown up in California, a large part of our education was about the crappy things we whites did to the indigenous peoples of California. It was a large part of our elementary education learning about the horrible stuff we did and about the cultures of the people we screwed over.

How are you feeling GT’ers? I’m at the airport headed to DC to give a talk,* and am feeling quite glamorous! Between my move to NYC for my new position at a super fancypants university and all the travel I’ve been doing lately (I’ve traveled more this year than I have in the past 5 years combined) - I am feeling…

I hope no one minds me writing about this continuously. It helps me get out of my head all of the details of this. Maybe also it will help anyone else planning a cross country move?

For me, this week has been a mass of anxiety due to all the news - all the fuckery with our healthcare, ridiculousness around trans in the military, Scary mucci (a nickname I can’t seem to get to take off), Trump tweeting executive orders, etc. My productivity is way down because I am so anxious about it all - and I…

A week or so ago I went on a trip with my mom and some family. She has been asking me to go on this trip with her for over a year - offered to pay for everything (which she didn’t end up doing) - kept hounding me to go with her. I kept telling her I just couldn’t go given how up in the air everything was in my life…

Mini-rant #1. It annoys me to no end when I get a sample size of something, fall in love with it, buy the full size - and the full size is nowhere as good. This mascara is a case in point. The sample size is amazing - the brush is perfect, the mascara is dry - which I really like - and not gloopy. The full size is…

We’ve signed the paperwork for our apartment in NYC and I paid my portion of the deposit. Now I have to figure out the move. Some of my constraints/concerns/thoughts: