Also, the farther north you go in Central Park, it gets less crowded and the more “woodsy.”

A lot of the research kind of goes back and forth on porn’s effects on health (different aspects of porn/different types of porn can sometimes have different effects), but my academic advisor recently published some of his research that shows that when gay or bi men watch gay porn in which the actors wear condoms,…

GOP- should we ask actual public health experts what public health issues need to be fixed? Lol, nahhh.

I wish it was just that one relative, but I also have a super conservative (though not a cop) uncle who’ll probably have some choice words to say about BLM if I decide to go to my cousin’s birthday party this weekend. I’m so on the fence about it, because I feel guilty for never seeing my family, but I have a feeling…

I heard rumors (gotta love family gossip) that my 2nd cousin who is a cop actually does think that is one of his job perks. He also called BLM a terrorist group last week. Granted, if he weren’t a cop, he’d probably get racially profiled by them a lot since he’s a Latino living in a lower income area, but whatever,…

Lol, my parents aren’t even just super religious, they were just like, “Pokemon is a stupid fad. You’re not wasting your/our money on that.”

Lol, whenever my family has people visiting, my parents always think it’s a great idea to take them to Weehawken just to see the little memorial thingy they have commemorating the duel. And this was before Hamilton was a Broadway phenomenon.

My classmates and are kind of hoping that the interest in it will still be going strong in September so that someone will just run into the middle of one of three hour classes to catch a Pokemon.

I really hope one of my classmates writes their masters thesis on Pokemon Go’s effect on health now. Or maybe I could? *Adds to list of potential thesis ideas even though I probably should have already chosen one by now*

I’m getting more and more tempted to start playing Pokemon Go. I downloaded it lats night, but haven’t started playing it yet, because of work (and yet here I am on Jezebel, but anyway, I digress). One of my friends and I were at a park yesterday and we saw so many people playing Pokemon Go. One of them overheard me…

Something about me saying “hey Facebook, systemic racism exists and is bad,” has really brought out all of the apparently super racist people who I haven’t spoken to in person since middle school. Like cool, it’s been years since I’ve seen you, so nice of you to remind me you exist by pretty much saying every racist…

I sure as hell don’t miss high school marching band (our band directors and DMs became tyrants, and I’m saying this as someone who held a leadership position (section leader)). However, college marching band (or scatter band in my case) was so much fun. I played the clarinet.

Haha, there’s a reason that the students who live in the other residential colleges have an “anti-cheer” for it that goes like this:

It was built in the late 1960s, so I think they were worried about Vietnam War protests turning into riots? Though none of the dorms built before or after it are riot-proof, so idk, poor kids just get stuck living in an ugly building now.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is awesome. Anything by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, although I really loved Americanah. Shrill by former Jezebel writer and all around awesome writer and comedian Lindy West if you like memoirs (and it’s actually a good memoir).

This is like the lamest dream ever, but maybe you will see hidden meaning in it? Anyway, earlier this week, I had a dream that I went to the student center at school and there was free, fancy pizza, and I hoarded that shit so I could have free food for days.

I don’t have good hair advice, but I would say, no, you are not a loser for going to see a band by yourself. I did that a few weeks ago, and like, it’s not like you can talk to your friends while the music is playing anyway. And it was still fun.

It depends on what I have to do that day and how much time I have, but I normally do yoga on weekdays when I need self-care, and when I have more time, like on weekends, I like to go to the MOMA by myself and do the self-guided audio tour and just feel like a huge art history nerd.

I give you Lovett College (a dorm, basically), from my alma mater, Rice. It was built to be riot-proof and students who don’t live there sometimes refer to it as a toaster or a cheese grater.

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