IntenseDebate - campbelliah

11 years ago @ The Toast - FAQ About Our Academic... · 1 reply · +24 points

I married a guy in my department, and then I quite after my master's instead of getting the PhD. I'm sure people assume I quit to avoid the two-academics-one-marriage problem, but it was really because I hated the program with ever fiber of my being! Only having to worry about getting one university job instead of two is just a fantastic, amazing, world-altering side benefit.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Don't Hate Wang Jing; ... · 1 reply · +31 points

The incredible stupidity of the Himalayan mountain-climbing industry was why I hated Three Cups of Tea BEFORE it was unmasked as super-fake. Screw you, Greg Whatever. Screw you.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Why I Think I Would Ma... · 3 replies · +38 points

My teeth are terrible--just terrible!--but it's all sugar's fault. My teeth would be good to go in a world without transatlantic trade.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Share Your Greatest Di... · 0 replies · +5 points

Prank phone calls to toll free numbers! That was how I dirtbagged, too. We exclusively prank-called Hair Club for Men, for reasons that are lost to time.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Share Your Greatest Di... · 0 replies · +8 points

I had friends ("friends" may be too strong a word) who would sneak out to drive when they were 12/13. I was always TERRIFIED they would come by my house and ask me to come along, but they never did. They probably had me sized up pretty well.

11 years ago @ The Toast - John Lennon Writes · 1 reply · +115 points

Nah, disliking "Imagine" doesn't mean you're a monster. It means you're not 15 anymore.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 1 reply · +14 points

That was one I LOVED while I was actually reading it, and then after I put it down I was like, "Wait, what?"

And then I read the same author's Her Fearful Symmetry, which is the stupidest book of all time, and I hated it so much it made me retroactively hate The Time Traveler's Wife.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Let's Talk About The B... · 0 replies · +5 points

Nice! My Goodreads shelf is called "Hall of Shame."

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