I just spent several seconds trying to figure out if strawberries are vegan. I think it's time for bed. Or more wine. Definitely more wine. #Groupthink
I just spent several seconds trying to figure out if strawberries are vegan. I think it's time for bed. Or more wine. Definitely more wine. #Groupthink
I've been trying to cut back on sugar, actually! #Groupthink
My farts have been really stinky lately. What the hell, body?
I've also been incredibly stressed. Almost breaking point-typed stress.
Related? Who knows! #Groupthink
This is the moment when I realize I am an old. Just like the 2nd wave feminists gasping in horror at women who choose to be homemakers, I sit, hands poised over the keyboard, ready to type out a screed so powerful it will force those little fuckers to realize the sacrifices we made to get them where they are today*! But didn't generations make those sacrifices in order to rob words like 'fag' of their power? And if so, isn't the new generation using that word - and its weakened meaning - in a way that we olds, with our long(er) memories, can't begin to understand? And don't we always condemn what we can't understand? With that in mind, I say rock on, faggots. But steer clear of my yard. I like to sit and stare at it sometimes, and you're blocking my view of the foliage.
*I use 'we' loosely. I'm a child of the (early) 80s.
Yeah... I agree. But baby steps!
I think that when you're 2 weeks from your due date, it's okay. Non-induced babies come that early all the time.
Also: best gif ever.
So happy that she switched to more body-hugging clothing. Evey time I saw her perform I wanted to be like, girl! You're beautiful. Show it the eff off. This? The dress, the hair, the song? Flawless. You go, girl.
How's everyone feeling about fashion week so far? I'm, honestly, kind of bored. Besides Derek Lam, who has some beautiful tailoring, and Christian Siriano, whose clothes are just FUN, it all seems to be fall colors (brown, black, red, orange), busy patterns, and the occasional sparkle. Which is fine, but it's everyone! And it's kind of depressing. Are we all going to be falling leaves come September? Are we as a society in that sad a place? C'mon, designers, step it up!
My grandma does this to me all the time. She can't even give me a compliment without undermining it somehow. (You have such beautiful eyebrows. When you were younger your eyebrows were so big and bushy, I thought you were going to have a unibrow!). It's incredibly hurtful, and it sucks that you have to deal with that.
Is there anything your parents told you that you know is false? My grandma tells me all the time that I'm a boring person (who should be able to entertain her better) and that if I was more like my mother she and I wouldn't sit around with nothing to do all the time. Now, I know that's not true. I am decently outgoing and can usually come up with something fun to do with friends. But when I visit her, she doesn't want to do anything, then complains that she doesn't do anything. Once I realized this, I realized she doesn't know me at all. Which makes the other things she says, even the things that exploit my insecurities, laughable. This is not to say her words no longer hurt. Last Christmas she told my sister that being overweight runs in the family, just look at so5. That sent me to the bathroom to cry. But overall, I can deal with her a lot better now that I know she's full of shit.
Good luck!
Ooh, that looks so interesting! Paul Krugman is the shiz, and widely reviled amongst the more conservative contingent of the department. This of course, means I praise him often in papers, essay questions, and class. Thanks, I'll pick it up!
Just popped in to say that online classes SUCK! I'm taking Intermediate Microeconomics this (my last) semester, and ho-lee-crap. Last week I somehow managed, by not scrolling down, to think I took the entire quiz when I only took about 1/5 of it, resulting in a score of 2.9/40. Yup, you read that right. I got less than a 10%. This week I tried - really REALLY hard - and got somewhere in the low C/high D range. I think a lot of the problem is that I have a hard time concentrating on screens for large chunks of time. I've got a very short attention span, and for some reason the interactiveness of the classroom setting (even if it's just a lecture) works really well for me. Sadly, I can't change to a different section now, and I have to get a B- in the class, at least, to graduate Magnum Cum Laude in May. I'm heading to the tutoring center on Monday, but what else can I do to succeed in this class?
Last semester I got a lower grade than I'd anticipated in one of my classes, so I sent an email to the prof asking him what was up. Upon reflection (and Jez-flection) I realized it was incredibly rude, so I emailed an apology. I never heard back, so I figured I'd overstepped my bounds and shrugged it off. A couple of days ago I open up my email and find this:
The a- is a mistake. Should be an a. Don't know how that happened. Sorry.
I'll change it pronto.
G*****
Sent from my iPhone
Besides cracking up that my 70-year-old professor emails with an iPhone, I'm now doing a happy dance. I still have a 4.0 in my major! I didn't ruin a possible professional contact for ever because of my rudeness. Yay!
(Also: I feel like Cher Horowitz. "Where's your report card?" "It's not done, daddy!" Going out and buying some thigh-highs tomorrow.)
I've been looking at the shows on nymag.com. So far I think my fave is rag & bone. What's yours?
That's disappointing! I have a pair of docs from 1996 that I still wear on a regular basis, and they've held up just fine. Curse you, "improved" manufacturing!
Nope. I have a niece and still don't care. I mean, she's fine, but I have no desire to hold her or feed her or coo over her. The odd thing is, I work with elementary school kids, so I have a feeling I'll enjoy her quite a bit when we can converse. Right now, however... meh. #Groupthink
HA! This is hilarious. And, as a bisexual woman, too close to home... #Groupthink
I love my iPhone. I can never go back. Welcome, friend. You're in good company. #Groupthink
It really disturbs me that so many people in positions of power don't understand the difference between being in the minority, percentage-wise, and being in the minority when it comes to power.
A country singer went to jail for being intoxicated outside a church? Damn, Randy Travis! You're one affair away from being the living embodiment of the perfect country record!
