I have a lot of anti-vax facebook friends (I dabbled in fundamentalist Christianity in my youth and I am generally pretty granola/have hippy friends) and I’ve hidden them from my feed for exactly this reason. My […]

I always try and remember what my flute instructor told me in undergrad which is “set yourself up for success”. In this instance, I think she meant be warmed up enough for a performance but don’t over prepare or […]

My Oma would always tell me stories about Queen Wilhelmina and princess Margaret before I went to bed. Although I’m a Canadian I feel quite touched by this whole abdication thing.

I want a kayak so badly but I have no storage space.

Hi sorry it took so long for me to reply, my weekend was really busy. Because I am Canadian we don’t have a lot of options for investment firms since it is highly regulated and administered through the banks. Mine […]

I also had a smallish windfall when I was 16 (it was a settlement from a car accident which almost killed me). It sat in trust until I turned 18 and then I put it with a reputable investment broker. Mainly I try […]

This might be sort of jerky of me, but I’ve started doing this recently and I’ve found it makes people think about their use of the term. Now when someone says ” omg I’m solo ocd!” I reply with “I’m so sorry to […]

Yes! I totally agree with this. There is nothing wrong with enjoying treats and even enjoy a lot of them at times. I guess I just haaaaattteee the way emotional eating, or even just the enjoyment of food by women […]

I also eat my feelings. It’s sort of bad, in grad school people really make light of it like “Ok guys, I’m gonna go eat my feelings now!” And I do honestly think that a lot of women do it because of the degree to […]

This is interesting because my partner also works for a large-ish tech company and they too are trying to curb employees working at home. It worries me, because when I finally graduate from the PhD, I am apt to be […]

My main issue with the whole thing is Cam. I really have grown to dislike her character. I think she is supposed to be the sane, reasonable, sympathetic one compared to all the squints but she repeatedly does […]

I find the Parker thing really weird, just in general this season.. he’s been around most seasons and suddenly he’s gone. I had two thoughts about this a) maybe he’s started a growth spurt because he’s probably […]

I am sad to see this show go! It’s just like Pushing Daisies all over again. Mainly, I thought last year was awesome tv-wise in that there were four new comedies centered around women: Girls, New Girl, Don’t Trust […]

I watched that whole scene and my main thought was “Whaaaaaaaaa?” For me at least, based on this one scene I think that Pete and Debbie are jerks, I don’t know how they end up being sympathetic protagonists at […]

This whole thing makes me so mad. If I had to give any one reason why I am hesitant to return to the church, it’s because I am extremely wary of this sort of emotionally destructive garbage that young women are […]

” It took me many years and tears to accept and embrace this fact, and since the awkward geeky girl usually only gets her someone special in guilty pleasure rom-coms, I started to resign myself to the fact that […]

I have been thinking about this a lot as the term starts up and I prepare to teach tutorial sections yet again. One of the things that is often bemoaned in academia is this shift from universities that focus on […]

This summed up my entire destination experience perfectly. I was asked to be a bridesmaid at one, it was $3200, in April of the year that I/the bride/etc was graduating from undergrad. Needless to say, me and my […]

I agree with you 110% about some of the comments being rage-inducing. This really good comment stood out to me though, “there are three positions people should probably feel a calling for: any sort of religious […]