My depression is very seasonal, so the first spring days where the sunlight seeps into my system and makes me feel warm and light and happy really are beautiful. I know most people love that sensation of warmer days arriving, but I don’t know if I’d appreciate them quite so much if they didn’t represent the top of the…

Yeah, in this instance I defended both Feinstein and Inhofe. I despise Inhofe as he generally represents every reprehensible conservative viewpoint, but his stock trading also doesn’t appear to be tied to the Covid-19 briefing in the way that Burr and Loffler’s were. I’m not going to say he’s guilty of something just…

Yeah, it’d be one thing if she’d clearly decided that she wasn’t going to be a figure in the kiddo’s life and told him so. She kept forgetting that the kid existed. It’s not refusal to be involved, it’s detachment from reality. 

No, yes, and yes:

“I definitely like savoring my meals, but there are just stages of life where insisting on doing it is capricious and silly.”

My neighborhood pizza place is a total gamble. 80% of the time, at it’s best, it’s a wonderful, crisp yet chewy foldable slices and your order ready in 30 minutes. Other times you’ll wait an hour and a half for exactly what you describe. Burnt edges but goop in the middle. Thankfully my neighborhood is very forgiving…

The self-serve deli started before the pandemic. I hated it. They just had big plastic spoons sticking out of the tubs, like a salad bar. Everyone touching the same spoons, and savages harvesting all the good stuff.

Yup, it’s all optics.

A plus: My local grocery store recently went to self-serve deli. Saves work for the staff, yes, but it also fucking sucked. All the shrimp picked out of the seafood pasta, all the mozzarella picked out of the caprese salad, etc.

Yes, because the unemployed service industry folks will DEFINITELY have the capital to invest in new businesses when this is all over.

My parents have that exact same Corelle set!

I’m going to optimistically say that all that real fruit, with its vitamins and nutrients and shit, will probably help alleviate hangover symptoms. Same with bloody marys. 

Except no one is insisting on anything. Do what works for you. This is a food blog. For people that care about enjoying their food. Claire’s posts are generally about making savorable food and cocktails. It is not aimed at parents of young children.

Yes. Your home state of Iowa, where we totally believe you live. 

Only problem with that advice is that “Bored” says they’re hoping for a raise in the future. Checking out, doing the bare minimum, and avoiding getting involved with other people in your office will do nothing to earn you a raise, unless your workplace does annual raises not tied to performance. 

The Biden student loan plan is to cut income based payments to 5% of discretionary income, then forgiveness after 20 years (or 25? don’t remember.) And that’s total forgiveness, not the current system where you have to report the forgiven amount as taxable income.

I’m sure that’s part of the reason she’s started spray tanning. Her mom was Puerto Rican, but she it very light skinned. The fake tan is either an attempt to look more Latina, or an attempt to look more Melania.

In our soundbite culture, him saying anything remotely like “I have in the past made people uncomfortable due to my poor boundaries” would be a very bad idea.

Worse, she doesn’t actually look like Melania.

I have absolutely no idea why you’re using this weirdly confrontational tone.