The last season was the best under Moffat so far, IMO. Clara becomes a lot better of a character and the flirting is pretty nonexistent. It still has its issues but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit, despite the last few seasons being bad enough that I almost didn't even bother watching.

Haha, that's never fun. Barking is very self-rewarding to the first step is to never let him bark at the tree. Close the blinds or block him out of the room when you can't directly supervise, and when you're home if he starts barking immediately remove him from the room. If he's able to do it even occasionally, it'll…

FWIW, I do this too and find it extremely helpful. :) The caveat is that if you're prone to catastrophizing, you've got to keep that in check. To use the dog park example, the realistic worst case scenario really is that they'll think you're a little odd, or don't feel like talking to you. Don't let that spiral into…

If you're used to going to the dog park, it might be worth it to try that again. I moved to a new city recently and have a bit of social anxiety and even though I normally hate dog parks, I've been going a lot because people LOVE to talk at those. Maybe go with a strategy in mind...plan on picking one mixed-breed dog…

I'm with you on that. I'm also really picky about training methods. You mention being a fan of Cesar Millan or how dogs are just like wolves and need punishment to keep them in their place, I'm done. Especially because a lot of those guys seem to think they know better than me (someone who gets paid to train dogs)…

I don't even think of her as country but you're so right. The boundaries can be a bit thin and I think a lot of queer country artists kind of get shuffled into the folk umbrella and attract more, shall we say, hippie audiences. ;) Or maybe that's just me. I adore k.d. but I don't think of her as a country artist, even…

Right? Chely Wright is an example. Her career definitely suffered when she came out but she's sill a very famous country singer and has advanced gay rights among country fans pretty substantially, at least based on my anecdotal but extremely redneck experience. Billy Gilman and Ty Herndon are fucking bold, and I hope…

That's not agility. ;) Most agility dogs I know would fail that pretty spectacularly too, probably. But what it is is adorable.

But tinged with a bit of suspicion...like, "this can't really be true, right? RIGHT?" That's the key element, I think.

Right? Even going by the maximum amount he theoretically received, I can think of far easier and quicker ways to earn $850. If you have the leisure time to cultivate 3 accounts with histories and consistent stories for that long, you could learn an actual skill or something. Honestly even manual labor would probably…

This transformation is certainly...something. (Beautiful? Terrifying? You decide!)

Is it weird that I thought his expression was pretty much identical to the one my dog makes when I hold a tennis ball up like I'm going to throw it?

But we're just stooopid feminazis, how could we see through that masterful manly deception?!?!

It works just like any other sub-blog. If you have a Kinja account, you can post there but you will be in the grays unless GT follows you. If you post enough, there are occasional invite threads which, if you see and request in, may result in you getting author privileges which means you can actually post.

Even the notorious Raffey refused any donations or financial support from other GTers, IIRC. ;)

Nope, you shouldn't hate to point that out at all. I'm pretty privileged and it's *because* both my grandmothers worked. They were lower middle class and wanted to make sure their kids were comfortable so when it was at all possible, they worked despite it not being completely necessary to survival and receiving some…

What are you talking about? Personally, I find being able to make decisions about my health and body to be completely degrading. I would feel so much more respected if only a man would swoop in and treat me like a child who is incapable of making informed decisions. I'm glad that kind Father Andrew is willing to step…

At first glance I read the name as "delusional." I think that was accurate.

Also, really deep burns cause nerve damage to the point where they don't always hurt right away (like, not until they start healing).

At least where I live, flauta usually refers to ones made out of flour tortillas while taquitos are made with corn tortillas. YMMV, though. ;)