This is the only thing that matters right now.

I was kinda wondering why that wasn't in the article.

Oof. Okay, good to know.

I stumbled across his post about his visit to the creationism museum (which is truly bonkers) and it was the first thing of his I read. It was terrific.

Huh. Well if you didn't like that then I find it hard to imagine you'd like Old Man's War much more. But it's so short, give it a shot.

We do that too!

Oh really? Interesting. I'll probably try something else in that world at some point. And yeah, I really enjoy Scalzi's writing. It's fun and breezy.

So excited for it.

I finished Wool by Hugh Howey over the weekend, and it was excellent. Very twisty fun and it really made me want to see a movie adaptation. I loved it.

Oh, that sucks. I keep waiting for them to come into the city of Chicago, but it hasn't happened yet. I have to resort to going there every time I visit a friend in Elmwood Park.

Hey, when I went back I'd been out of college for…16 years.

Who are you, her stride mother?

I'm rarely speechless and I still don't even know how to express what it means to me.

I don't think we had anything to do with it.

I always forget to say how lucky I was with my parents. They loved me unconditionally from the start and didn't have any self-loathing practices (religion) to impart, so that was a head start I often forget not everyone has.

Oh I didn't mean to imply I would.

Well said. My adoption of "don't sweat the small stuff" has also helped immensely as I apply it to myself as well. So yeah, realizing so many things that people get worked up about really don't matter was amazingly helpful. I was lucky in that I realized that fairly young. Again, laziness can be thanked, as getting…

Ask yourself that only if your intention is to do the opposite.

Savage Love style?

Okay, now I can stop then.