“Hey man look, I know it sucks but I am just not in the mood to meet up today.”

I’m pretty lax about my kitchen sponge at home. It gets wrung out after each use and occasionally placed in the dishwasher, and then tossed when it starts looking a little janky. But I never touch the kitchen sponges at work. I don’t trust what other people do with them or what they wash with them.

Notice how he placed a paper bag against the doors to keep them open, for the perfect elevator selfie.

I think I hated Alba almost from the get go, because of that whole crushed flower nonsense.

The short transition scenes (often involving random shoppers) are so bizarre and so good.

I am always on conference calls with people in multiple different countries. If I’m organizing, I always use this site to confirm the correct times. I paste the meeting time for all relevant cities within the body of the meeting invitation so that everyone is clear on what time they need to be available. It helps…

Shortly after getting married, we got a wedding invitation addressed to Mr. and Mrs <husband’s first, middle, and last name>. This was my own damn friend. I called him and told him that my name is <my own damn first name and last name> and to please adjust accordingly. It’s how people just assume that gets my goat…

I don’t like watching horror movies because, well, they scare me. But some are so formulaic that they just don’t work as horror movies. I remember watching Gothika in the cinema and being fine because the jump scares were so predictable. She’s in a pool in the dead of the night with her eyes closed. Of course…

Thank you for putting into words how I feel about this. I get judgmental too, and I feel conflicted about it. But if we partake in something that is rooted in a sexist tradition, it’s important to acknowledge it even if we ultimately make a decision that is aligned with that tradition.

I kept my last name because I didn’t like the history behind women taking their husband’s last name. It’s also not done in my culture. But another compelling reason was that I didn’t want to go through all the paperwork. It felt completely unnecessary to me. I also say something similar when someone asks me if I took…

Do you like briyani? You could get some mutton briyani from South Asian restaurants.

Thanks for clarifying.

At one time when I was walking, I had Lulu, I told Lulu, “Lulu I don’t feel good,” and she would say, “What’s wrong? I have to go to the bathroom.”

Co-signed. I am looking forward to watching this movie and really didn’t appreciate that spoiler. Most reviews of new movies don’t spoil it for the reader.

Please do The Wedding Date soon. It’s a ridiculous movie, but Dermot Mulroney was so fine in it and I love that he worked as an escort.

The most recent one was the death of a family member. It was the first time I had experienced the death of someone close to me, and it was sudden. It was also during the time of another major life change for me which was irrevocably influenced by my loved one’s passing, and I could not fully process the death until a…

I’ve done this and had someone do this for me. Sit with the person. Just sit next to them in silence. You can tell them beforehand that you’re there if they want to talk, but I found that just having someone sitting by me was like having an anchor. I didn’t want to talk. I didn’t want to cry. I just wanted to sit in…

I see she turned on the waterworks just in time for the cop’s arrival.

Related. Keep a record of your start and end dates plus address and company phone number for each of your jobs. Those details are the bane of my existence on those unwieldy online job application portals.

Those few months after a death really are the hardest. It’s often when the grief really starts taking root, and most people have moved on.