Good luck—you'll be great! Here are some helpful tips (link) for you to keep in mind, just in case.

Plus, he knew everybody's shit was emotional—that's empathy, right there.

"I like white folks, but I don't like you/Bunch of people in the hood wanna fight you."

Welp, that's going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. …and I'm not even mad about it.

Yeah, the one-two punch of Skeleton Tree and this are easing me into a severely S.A.D. and fire-contemplation mood. It's perfect for fall, but damn, is it depressing*.

This was a fascinating article, by the way—thanks for sharing it!

Also, more exposure to Maggi is a net benefit for humanity as a whole. Stuff's delectable.

You didn't enjoy losing on turn four to the exact same decklist eight times in a row over the course of a tournament? It was gameplay at its best!*

I like the idea of having a kind of insular cogwork Affinity-esque deck in Standard, though, with some of these guys and some of the previously-spoiled interlocking robot bits. Probably not too great, but looks fun.

Yeah, and in this new set, they're seeding every 140 or so packs with a super-powerful and underprinted card in a special frame and with new art. They've already started selling for $50-$200—for cards that aren't even released yet, and that you can't play in the game's most popular forms of play.

Then underlined by popping your 'board up and skating off.

Yeah, it started off wayyyy more traditionally Against Me! than it concluded, but there's some good sonic expansion in there.

Sick is good—stupid mutable language that doesn't carry over to text well w.r.t. connotation.

When it rains, it pours, yep. That's always awkward; I had that happen once and wanted to just say, "where were you 72 hours ago!?," but I am decorous.

Hey, that's near my neck of the woods! Enjoy it—beautiful area and should be gorgeous that time of year. Happy birthday!

For real. It's either greasily, stultifyingly hot, or it's pouring rain for hours at a time around here. Bring me October, and bring it now.

Absolutely—and then if you follow up, they get very flustered. It's such a strange attitude; either keep your listings updated and relevant, or be accomodating when someone calls to see if that position even exists ("oh, no, we were just listing that per federal codes. We hire internally, for the most part, but we'll…

Cheers! Good vibes always accepted, particularly when I can channel that into interview-swagger.

That's my hope, definitely—it's like karma: you have to keep plugging away, and the rewards will drop in your lap eventually.

I adored The Unbearable Lightness and am due for a reread. It sounds so ironically heavy, but it's so precisely written that it works.