Shoutout to my student who, during a discussion about the links between mental illness and plastic surgery, guessed that I had had a nose job! Nope, but that’s a high compliment in South Florida!

Feeling slightly less depressed after being unwashed, without makeup, and highly medicated at the car wash and still garnering some (polite and in no way aggressive) compliments. Mostly about the car, but anything said to The Heaux Whip I assume includes me.

My dad (Polish, part Jewish though the family history is quite confused because of a pogrom) has a dark sense of humor, and this afternoon he chuckled and referred to America as “the great melting pot… well, the great gas oven”

Uh, you’re doing fine with the latter, but the Soma is a distinct problem

The best thing about being on a medication with the unfortunate side effect of radically suppressing my appetite is that I’m not getting hit nearly as hard with rising grocery prices

Former DC Metro Police officer Michael Fanone has a message to the Oath Keepers founder who was just pardoned. We share his sentiment.

So, I would *not* shield my students from a school shooter because I am not sacrificing myself on the altar of America’s gun obsession, but I absolutely would shield them from ICE agents and encourage them to get video of those little jackboots beating a nicely attired middle-aged white woman

I show that food chart to my students almost every semester- they mostly have no idea how centralized it is, but they fucking do now!