On Where (My) Girls At?
My first thought when I saw the cast photo was how disappointingly white it was. And how, even in its whiteness, there's a very samey-samey-ness to at least the appearance of these girls. They all have essentially the same hair colour! And basically same hairstyle!
I haven't seen it, so it could be that they have wildly different personalities, but really, casting people. If you're going to be making the whitest show ever (which you shouldn't be), use your imagination a little. At least SATC had a blonde, a redhead, a brunette and a Carrie.
I'm sure I will like the show when I see it, but this stuff is important, and it does matter. It's disappointing that they didn't try harder to get it right.
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On Orrr You Could Just Not Say Anything?
@Decca Yes! I keep thinking of Kony 2012 the whole time I've been listening to this. "Well, I'm sorry I lied in the sense that I'm sorry I got caught but the overall truth of the story is more important than the details, despite the fact that the details are incorrect."
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On How to Write a Resume, Part One: Practices to Avoid
@SarahP Helpful tip for Word users who want to use non-standard fonts! (Although I do agree with using PDF's when possible, but if you insist on Word, this is useful.)
When you save your file, in "Save As", if you click "Options" there's a "save font with file" option, which means that when someone opens your document, they see it with your intended font, even if they don't have it installed on their computer.
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On Recalled Transcripts of My Salary Negotiations
@The Everpresent Wordsnatcher Also, no one in an interview will EVER ask you WHY you need the money you're asking for (at least in my experience). It's pretty much an assumed fact that people need as much money as they can get, so don't worry about that side of things.
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On Old Pictures, Clownish Makeup, and the Unexplained Breakup
I'm loving the "300 word max" request on letters to A Dude. Is that new? Why do I get the feeling there have been some wordy Dude letters going on?
Also, I agree with everything this Dude says. Excellent Dude.
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On Ask a Clean Person: Tackling a Major Clean-up, Part One
@Teffodee I am 100% with you. I'm exactly the same. But you definitely have books you can get rid of.
What I did a few years ago (and what I'm actually inspired to do again right now) is take all your books, put them in piles of "yes, I will definitely read this again", "Eh, maybe" and "ugh, no I hated this, get it away, it burns my eyes!". Oh, and the "hey, I forgot I owned this, I've never actually read it" pile, which you'll also want to divide into "yay! I'll totally read that" and "eh, whatever".
Then take a cold hard look at your "maybe" pile. Don't give away anything you think you might want to re-read at any point in the future. Put the others into the "eye burner" pile.
And then give the last two piles (eye burners and whatevers) to a charity shop or sell online or whatever. Then you'll be only left with books you really want!
It's a really good feeling, actually. I really am going to do it again, starting right this very second.
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On What Old Book Do I Read If ... ?
@pterodactgirl I don't think reading the book will ruin your movie love! It's been a while since I saw it, but I remember thinking that it was one of the most faithful book-to-movie adaptations I've ever seen. It helps that the book is short, so they didn't have to cut anything out or change any plots.
Read it! You won't be disappointed!
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On The League of Ordinary Tote Bags
@chicago79 Ha! Me too! I'm kind of unreasonably excited!
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On In Further Trepanning News
@thebestjasmine EXACTLY! He meets her when she is TWELVE and says "I'll wait for you to grow up!" EWWW!
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On Really Good Books That Happen to Be Free For the Kindle: Part One
@pterodactgirl I have read it! And I love it so much!!
I periodically re-read it every couple of years.
And how did I only just learn this second that there's a book about Freckles too?? Must. Read. Immediately.