Having a little bit of an anxiety attack here; I'm starting a new job on Monday, exactly two weeks after I had my interview.  I have an appointment in a couple of hours to go get drug tested ( Read more... )

While the vast majority of white people that I know are fine, let me point out that I have to deal with stupid crap from white people on pretty much a daily basis.  Most of it comes in the form of backhanded compliments (is it really all that surprising that a person of color could be "intelligent"/"hard-working"/"well-spoken"/"mannerly" and - my ( Read more... )

My neighbor's puppy decided it would be fun to have himself a nice little 3-hour bark-a-thon.  Starting at 3:45 this morning.

Turning my iPod up loud enough to drown him out would have meant turning it up loud enough to keep me from going back to sleep.  I am currently running on caffeine and fumes.  FML.

...Then just imagine what Jennifer Petkov would have been like if she hadn't spawned.  The Antichrist would be scared of her.

Petkov gained infamy this week when it was learned that she and her poor excuse for a husband (parenthood didn't strengthen his moral fiber much, either) had been tormenting a dying seven-year-old.  And just in case you didn' ( Read more... )

I have never heard of anyone's junk spontaneously falling off, not even in the tabloids.

Yours is still there, I promise; you do not have to keep checking it.

I'm employed!  Only for six months, but hey… I'm not complaining! 

Part of me wants to curl up in bed and never come out.

Part of me wants to go outside and sit in the sun until I pass out (it's a hot, humid day).

Part of me still wants to drive my car into oblivion.

All of me wants to stop feeling the way I'm feeling right now. 

… taking a pair of jeans you couldn't even pull up over your hips in December, and putting them on without having to unfasten them first. 

I can't decide whether Gloria Allred embarrasses me more as a feminist, as a woman, or as a decent human being. 

Over the weekend, we got buried under two feet of snow. Another one to two feet will be coming overnight.

I'M OVER WINTER NOW, OKAY??? CUT IT OUT!