I ate out alone in New York last Friday, where were you Jake Gyllenhaal?!

Also the whole trying to use anxiety disorder as part of his excuse?! I have an anxiety disorder; it doesn't mean I try to kill my roommates when they get back home late at night and startle me.

It’s the gender neutral way of describing people from Latin America, but yes, I think its use, at least in the mainstream, is fairly new.

It still is, I think. I was even able to download it on my phone through Amazon Music so I could listen to it even when I don’t have cell reception, and I don’t think I ever got charged for it.

Same as my Kinja name!

I have a Pygmy puff keychain that I got at the King’s Cross Harry Potter shop (because of course I went there when I went to London) and it grosses the hell out of my dad for some reason, but I think it’s adorable.

I used to work for a DV shelter where I answered the hotline, and like, yeah, I’m sure I wouldn’t have gotten in trouble at all if I was like, “Well, your spouse isn’t physically abusing you, he’s just intimidating you, but that’s not violence, so this isn’t the hotline for you.” /s

Living in NYC has ruined tap water for me. Now, when I visit my parents, the water at their house, the house I grew up in and used to drink tap water in all the time with no problem, tastes chlorinated and gross.

Right?! I mean, I’m sure whatever she said can’t be nearly as bad as what I’ve thought about them...

Cool! I really like my MPH program. Learning all about population level healthcare and health issues is definitely my passion, and I also like that I get to focus on sexual health in my program.

I just finished my first year of a master of public health program. It was a lot of work, but I actually really missed school, and enjoyed having schoolwork to keep me from getting bored.

I hiked about 15 miles yesterday morning and didn’t die! Then later that day, I went to a Cuban salsa event in Central Park and tried to learn how to lead instead of just being a follow like I normally do. It was super difficult, but at least I tried?

Yeah, not going to lie, that’s an issue I deal with too. Though, after spending the weekend in my hometown and looking at Tinder out there purely out of curiosity, the guys on Tinder in NYC in comparison suddenly seem much more attractive and smarter than they did before last weekend.

I’ve been using OkCupid and have trouble getting into it since I just get a bunch of creepy messages and nothing ever seems to happen with the guys who seem decent. I’m trying Tinder now, though tbh, my main motivation for downloading it was to laugh at my friends’ profiles because i’m a terrible person. I did go on…

I left the city for the weekend to chill with my parents and go to my cousin’s high school graduation party tomorrow. Yay free food and bingewatching with my mom.

I finally locked down a summer practicum. It’s where I’ve had my part-time job since January, but they were able to give a research project that fits with my masters program requirements, and I’ll get paid! Now I just need to politely turn down the other awesome, but unpaid offer I got, which I’m nervous about,…

I used to work at a shelter that didn’t allow pets, I’m imagining because as a small, local shelter in a rural area, they likely didn’t have the funds to do whatever you have to do to have pets in the shelter without breaking health and safety code violations. So yeah, more funding for shelters probably needs to…

Right?! I was like, “Wait, that’s the wife/older woman? She looks like she’s the same age as Nick Jonas...”

I’m sorry you had to go through that. I think that kind of psychological anxiety/abuse is very real and it’s terrible that people have to go through that. My issue with Dawkins is him trying to pit different forms of abuse against each other when we should just be saying that all forms of abuse are bad and come with…

Does anyone else remember the part in The God Delusion where Dawkins tries to argue that making a kid believe in hell is worse than molesting them, because you can get over being touched inappropriately, but you can’t get over the fear of hell? That really made me dislike that book. So yeah, not all atheists are fond…