I don’t care if zombies take over or the apocalypse strikes.

I’m just going to gripe that, despite living in a relatively under-control area of CA and feeling assured about my safety regarding Covid, I live with a careless roommate who flew to TX last week without telling anybody. And she, maybe, was exposed to someone who was exposed to someone who tested positive. We had to…

I’m dead sick of cooking. I’ve decided that all this next week i will only eat sandwiches.

Various friends: So, OtherNico, what fun are you getting up to this holiday?

To me it’s just simple courtesy to introduce people and not assume they know each other. As in, “Sam, this is Jane, have you met?”. But I had conversations where someone would come up to the person I was talking to, they’d start talking to each other and it was as if I was invisible. After it happened a few times I’d…

Well, time to just admit I’m a bad person

This one's for you, Herman. If you didn't like masks, you're really gonna hate the ventilator. 

Instead, try to think of the next birth announcement you see as proof that what you want is possible.

I hope Trump keeps trying to block this book all the way to SuperDuper Court, and the delay turns all his dirty laundry into an October surprise instead of a July piece of news that gets forgotten after a weekly barrage of bullshit.

Wow.

im the same way about staying home and watching movies. 55", 5.1 surround and a pause button. ill make my own damn popcorn.

I am taking a Zoom dance fitness class and it’s actually the fitness solution I was missing. I’ve always found gyms on the gross side, even pre-plague and I can’t motivate myself to work out on my own. Having a class at a fixed time with an instructor forces me to show up. 

Not everyone wants to or can run. 

Oh, God bless.  I am so sorry this has been this difficult on you, and I know you and your husband aren’t alone in bearing an outsized share of the burden of this.  

Outside of when I run, I am a six days a week regular at my gym for 20+ years. When I made the decision to move out of the US (I’m still here, the world exploded just prior to my spring flight), the one thing that I felt I would miss, and miss terribly, was my gym. It’s open now, with limited capacity, and I’ve…

Imagine the time and energy invested in expensive fugly replicas conveying your status and image when your claim to fame is set in stone as a Chad & Karen with a mustard stain and trigger finger going postal thinking people want to steal your tacky shit.

This was only a couple of years ago. I - mid-twenties, unemployed and suffering from serious depression - had moved back to live with my parents in the UK. I was seeing a therapist but apart from that my life was a mess and my self-esteem was through the floor.

So, I was a regular attendee of Christian horse camp when I was a kid. Didn’t care so much about Jesus, even though I tried, but I was all-in on the campfires and trail rides.

Sure., but I don’t want to speculate about how much is nature vs. nurture when it comes to women’s sexual desire. Like, maybe we grew up with Beauty and the Beast so now some of us fantasize about being kidnapped or maybe B&tB taps into something deep and primal in our lizard brains. I really don’t know, but I think…

I used to follow as many good ‘gray commenters’ as possible so I could pull everyone out in real time but my dashboard is now borked so I cannot tell. I would encourage approved commenters to do this, however.