Piney basically ells you everything you need to know about glass as a person. He’s an unhygenic dweeb who neglects the safety of others about his dog... so why wouldn’t he be the same way about his apartment?

If they have rodents, that’s one thing but bedbugs literally do not care if you are clean as a whistle or dirty as can be. They are much harder to get rid of with clutter but bedbugs will take up residence ANYWHERE and they SUCK SO MUCH. Our neighbors (in a duplex) had them. We never got them that I know of - no…

I don’t know how close to each other the condos are in New York, but if they are the only ones fumigating, it’s a lead pipe cinch that the bugs/rodents are just moving from one unit to the other. In order to get rid of them once and for all, all of the units would have to be exterminated at the same time, along with…

ooooh this is weird. You always think the people on npr totally have their shit together. This makes me feel much better about my life. I may not have the career/home/education I dreamed about but I don’t have bed bugs so I suppose I can chalk that up as a win.

As you say, it’s a dialogue. One that you are free to ignore, contribute to, follow, or eschew.

Sure, sure, I can understand that. Counterpoint: 13 hours of questioning, no lawyer, no translator, lies about evidence and witnesses, and an insistence that she *imagine* what might have happened to fit their narrative, after her own account of her whereabouts was shot down again and again.

I’ve read so much about this case and simply DO NOT UNDERSTAND how so many people still think she’s guilty.

Another interpretation is that she’s saying a lot of the “freedom” we participate in isn’t freedom for everyone but merely them acting in a way they think they should. No different from following religious practice even though it doesn’t work for you.

Also, within the past five years, 6 Italian scientists were convicted of manslaughter for failing to warn people about the dangers of earthquakes. So, I'd take Italian convictions with a grain of salt...

This is how I thought as an early adult. But then I became an older adult, and realized that even the most responsible, diligent human being makes errors, and penalties for such unavoidable humanity are wildly disproportionate to the error itself.

Many women I know grew up being told that there is something wrong with a woman who does not have a man in her life and they have stayed with bad partners or careened from one relationship to another rather than be seen as “without a man” and whatever that meant to everybody else. And you are correct, women get…

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The focus is so much on “the sexy times” and not how much time and energy most women have to devote to the (usually) man/men in their lives. I have woman friends who are great to be around when they are between boyfriends because they have time to spend on learning and enjoying life and doing interesting things. When…

Mr. Cosby, there’s no way to prove the jury is racist, so shut the fuck up.

Gotta love a system that heavily penalizes the future for young men and women for making minor mistakes while trying to work hard to better their future..

I seem to have missed the lesson in school about how to stay organized and on top of your shit, so these journals are intriguing to me. I have tried many, many planners and to-do list schemes and I can’t seem to stick to one, but maybe this is the ticket. At the very least, it’s an excuse to stock up on cute pens.

I’ve found bullet journaling really helpful for my Sunday night anxiety (a holdover from when I used to teach): if it’s in my book, I’m no longer allowed to worry about it on Sunday--it will still be waiting Monday. I don’t do anything half as fancy as you see on Instagram; I’ve found a weekly two-page spread with my…

I had read about the Bullet Journal about a year ago before it went viral and tried it for a little bit. It wasn’t sticking and although I liked the bullet notations, all the spreads and calendars seemed redundant when I was so reliant on a digital calendar. Now a year later, I found that I was getting overwhelmed by…

I started bullet journalling to have something to do with the fountain pens that have been a recent obsession. I’ve been more productive, less forgetful, and better at keeping up with goals since I started. Between that and the fountain pens, my handwriting, which has always been horrible and has been disused for…