#brimleymuffins

[tanakas]

Sorry, I'm about to reblog your entire blog.

I am 100% okay with that B^)

[ifeelbetterer]

I will now be blog stalking you until you publish that SW OT3. Writing the Droid beeps as part of a conversation is my JAM.

I imagine that R2-D2 is just as prickly as C3PO because otherwise how could they have become such good friends and stayed together for so long? There has to be an overlap. So R2 is a primadonna about how everything is going to ruuuuuin him, but unlie C3PO, he waits until after the adventure to start whining. Also, yeah, he likes an organic who fluctuates wildly between emotional extremes.

BB-8 is more like a proud pet-owner. He likes to tell anyone who will listen about how wonderful his three humans are and what wonderful tricks they can do. He also is VERY aware of their shortcomings and is happy to remind them how abominably they’re behaving when they’re off course.

I am also writing Chewie as 80%swearing, 20% orders, and 100% don’t-give-a-fuck.

[bigfatscience]

Hello, and forgive me if you've answered this before: Have you at all posted anything about the relationship to pregnancy and the change of a woman's body from a "natural thin state" to a "natural fat state"? My mother used to be thin, but post-pregnancy with me she has never been able to regain her pre-pregnancy body. I feel like I see this pattern play out with about half of the post-pregnancy women I know, but that could always just be confirmation-bias.

What a great question! My own anecdata fits with yours. I am about 10-15lbs heavier after having two kids, and most of my friends are the same.

Turns out, we are not alone! It is extremely common for a person to weigh more after they have given birth. 

Here is one study (tw fat-phobic language) that followed 744 people for one year after they gave birth. Fully 75% of the participants were heavier one year after giving birth. About 50% of the participants were 10lbs heavier, and 25% were 20 lbs heavier. (Without pregnancy, people typically gain 1-2 lbs per year throughout adulthood).

So your mama got fatter, I got fatter, every friend of mine got fatter. We all got fatter after babies. Turns out, that is normal (statistically speaking). Imagine that!

- Mod D

[illwynd]

Girl! Surround yourself with friends and family. This is the worst but you’ll make it through, you’re strong.

.......ahahaha well, you see, that is the problem. you never realize quite how alone you are until you're sick and there is no one you can call to come help you. but them's the breaks, i guess. what i get for being a weirdo loner.

*whispers* i'm also not a girl but that is neither here nor there...

[summercomfort]

What do you teach? I taught history for a while in China, and I was good at it (not English, tho, ugh), but it definitely wasn't for me. Glad to know you love it so much.

I teach high school history!  :D  It's so much fun.  I've taught World Religions, Modern World History, Asian Studies, and Mandarin 1 at a independent school for the past 6 years. I love 9th and 10th graders.  I love teaching them argumentation and writing.  I love teaching them about the Inca hegemonic system and the Industrial Revolution and Buddhist concepts of violence and the Council of Nicea and the migrant worker system in China and Partition and why Chinese tones are so crazy.  Just... everything.  Teaching is awesome and amazing.  (But also stressful and full of drama.)  However, I'm taking a break from teaching to do.... other education related things.  I also teach Chinese at a heritage language school on the weekends.  (It's like Hebrew school, but for Chinese kids)

[infinitygauntlets]

brimleymuffins replied to your post “[[MOR]If I hear one more person ask me why I don’t pronounce my last...”

Do people seriously try to correct YOUR SPELLING of YOUR NAME? The ultimate douchecanoe.

my first AND last yeah. Sometimes my middle name because it's Lin and not Lynn....

[sirgrumpygills]

brimleymuffins replied to your photoset: So kitoniclabel tagged me in this desktop meme....

What the hell kind of interface are you running?

Spider-Men ver. 2.0.14

[infinitygauntlets]

brimleymuffins replied to your post “Sorry I haven’t been on much. I went to vegas and my room didn’t have...”

party erry day.

I am a living cautionary tale about the horrors of tequila