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11 years ago @ The Toast - Talking About Estrange... · 1 reply · +50 points

guys, i'm pretty sure this must be the nom de plume of my crazy aunt.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Kristen Stewart's Perf... · 0 replies · +64 points

the part where she pulls out and tosses away her sock penis, while pogoing slightly.

11 years ago @ The Toast - You Are Invited To The... · 1 reply · +17 points

HEY this is on my birthday and i might come to it instead of birthday dinner

11 years ago @ The Toast - Becoming Jessica Fletc... · 1 reply · +23 points

i watched every episode of murder she wrote on netflix during a period of deep depression/unemployment and found it so comforting and empowering and sometimes you just need to watch hours of a strong female character using just her wit to dominate every situation with absolutely no sexual tension whatsoever involved, you know? ugh now trying to justify spending $50 to buy this boardgame online real quick, help

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

Andrea Gibson's "How it Ends" is my favorite poem of all time and it is both sexy and romantic and also hilarious.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

I don't personally have experience with this, but my sister did her master's in library science at UT Austin, with a focus on digital archives. She had very little computer science and only moderate math experience going into it and still did fine, and really liked the program. She did end up having a pretty hard time finding relevant employment afterwards, mostly because she is primarily interested in music/humanities/nonprofit stuff (she got offered a very depressing job in the McDonald's headquarters corporate archives and not much else) and there's very very little funding for those kind of archiving projects right now. but she's now getting a PhD in an academic field and seems to have found the master's very helpful and relevant and valuable in her research. hope some of that is helpful!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +1 points

thank you! i just had to read the Circle for my book club and i put it off so long that i had to read all 500 pages in like the last 3 days and it was the woooorst. he is not very imaginative and also does not fact check and also so heavy-handed all the time.

that said, i really like mcsweeney's, so i always feel a little bit bad about ragging on him.

11 years ago @ The Toast - We Miss You, Toni and ... · 0 replies · +8 points

very proud to be a loyal patron of both A Room of One's Own in Madison and Women and Children First in Chicago since my early adolescence. (I grew up in Chicago and had a Cool Aunt in Madison.) I am now also feeling extremely lucky to have grown up in an environment such that my initial reaction to this was "psh i call bullshit, there's no way that there's only 13 left and I'm intimately familiar with 2 of them".... very sad that this is true :(

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +3 points

congratulations! that is an awesome decision!
i'm really into unadorned mokume-gane rings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokume-gane) because they have a cool wood-grain-like pattern that makes them pretty unique and visually interesting without being garish or flashy or whatever. that said, they're insanely expensive, but i've always thought if i ever end up in a similar situation it might be a good excuse to get one...

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +7 points

i'm in a similar situation (although i started the job about 9 months ago, but i've been having reservations for a while...) i don't really have good advice, just solidarity. i've been kind of just continuing to do the work, privately rolling my eyes at all the managerial bullshit, and spending a lot of my free time brainstorming other options for different employment in the long term. it helps to vent extensively to someone every once in a while. hang in there!

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