On Kale's Comeuppance
I just bought kale this weekend! I make into kale chips, because I have no idea how and no desire to try it any other way. Crunchy, salty goodness made from something healthy sounds appealing though. I'm kind of terrified. There is SO MUCH kale! It's taking up a shelf of my fridge and it's all green and bushy. Do I have to massage it before I make it into chips?
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On Kale's Comeuppance
@Megano! My sister is friends with a kid (ok, they're about to graduate college, I should stop calling them kids) named Kale, and every time she mentions him I ask "does he know his name is a leafy vegetable?" I assume they both hate it when I do that.
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On Add It to the List of Dream Jobs
I've poked at the idea of being a conservator before, but ooh there is sooooo much science coursework I'd have to do. And I can't even get a job in a library with my library degree as it is. I once worked as a reference assistant in a special collection and it was the best job in the world - the things I found! It was amazing.
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On Amusingly Horrible Things I Have Said: The Bracket
I am white, and I said the following in response to a friend, who was expressing how weird it was to be mistaken for being Asian when she feels she is very clearly black: "But, you have black people hair! Oh God..."
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On Transcript of an Awkward Phone Conversation With My Mother
@SuperGogo After working in customer service I began to cultivate a Customer Service Voice that got MUCH better at getting relatives off the phone, mostly because I just smother them in pleasantries and then "bye! we'll have to do this again soon! CLICK"
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On Transcript of an Awkward Phone Conversation With My Mother
@Bebe It could very well have been mine too. Maybe there's a great Mom Void out there where phone calls go? And all the moms who have recently posted to facebook about how they wish their daughters would call them just queue up and take the next available daughter-call?
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On IUDs, or A Detailed Guide to Long-Term Sperm Scarecrows
@dj pomegranate I couldn't specifically feel mine, but I did get my abdomen x-rayed recently (dumb doctor thought I was constipated so badly I needed x-ray proof. I wasn't, and knew it.) and I could see it perfectly on the x-ray. It was awesome! I also know it's there if I do a lot of ab work at the gym. I get mild cramps and spotting, and sometimes certain crunches hurt. I've never had kids, and I had a longer than usual adjustment period. My gyno says it's fine and to just take some Advil if it's a problem.
My guy also calls it my IED.
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On IUDs, or A Detailed Guide to Long-Term Sperm Scarecrows
So, can we talk about discharge? Because I have a Mirena (about a year and a half now) and I TOTALLY have that vaguely-like-a-yeast-infection discharge and I hate it. (I currently HAVE a yeast infection because I am a twit and wore sweaty running leggings for hours but whatever). It's um...sorry, gross..but more snot-like than yeast-clumpy though? Definitely has an odor, and is definitely more there than previously, and I definitely don't like it. HALP.
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On "I believe you have my stapler?"
I use white-out sometimes at work, but my coworker uses it SO MUCH. Like, every time we place an office-supply order she needs white out (the nice tape version, not the huffable paint). SO MUCH WHITE-OUT.
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On Not Chasing Amy
@Reginal T. Squirge My BF and I have two couches...or a couch and a loveseat? He owned them when I moved into the house. We kind of live in the suburbs though, and this is not possible in a city. We have our own offices too, but I would trade these things for living in a place with culture and people, which our suburb kind of lacks. We usually sit on separate couches while watching TV because I wiggle and the cat is spastic and all sorts of things. We share a bed though!