Yeah, I want to see it, but I don't know if I can handle it.

Yeah, that's another way I was really lucky: my student loans are currently deferred, so I didn't have those to contend with.

I spent some unemployed time recently, and I was able to keep a monthly budget under $1000, ONLY BECAUSE I have a roommate, no kids, no pets, and no car (I also rent, so no mortgage or home repair costs). Also I have the time to plan meals really carefully, don't mind eating the same thing every day, and am lucky…

Really, you think this is what "upset" looks like? The strongest feelings I detect are mild surprise and baffled amusement, mixed with perhaps a touch of "that's maybe not entirely appropriate."

On the topic of Louisa May Alcott, A Long Fatal Love Chase is SO GOOD! So much better than that Little Women crap.

Oh, wait, there's been at least one super successful female author? Hooray! Sexism is over! We never need talk about gender again!

"did their best to make sure mosques couldn't be built within a certain distance to a church."

Politicians?

I think there's also a certain amount of "well, at least I'm better (or better off) than *those* people." People seem to always want someone to be below them, someone who can be blamed for society's problems. Remember Craig T. Nelson: "I was on welfare, nobody helped me!"

Hard C, like "Killian."

*sad. Not say.

I'm feeling similarly, and I think it might be because the Zimmerman verdict has left me feeling really say and emotionally raw, so that this coming on top of it (even though I barely watch the show anymore and never felt much of a connection to Monteith) feels like a heavier blow than it might have otherwise.

Thanks!

Related question: I adore the kind of music that, in movies, usually indicates that you're in France. Basically, romantic accordion music. Can anyone recommend any artists/albums I should check out?

Makes sense.

I'm a poetry-in-general snob. I love a full range of styles and forms, but some poems just piss me off with their badness, shallow imagery, cliches, etc. The poem from President Obama's second inauguration, for instance. It saddened me with its mediocrity.

I actually went through school being taught to use two spaces after a period. It wasn't until college that I was told differently; it took getting used to, but now two spaces looks wrong to me.

How about when people constantly mispronounce actors' names? I have a friend who calls Cillian Murphy "Sillian." Every time. Even though people have corrected her.

Relatedly, people who think those "diary of a dog's day" things are hilarious. Yes, dogs like to eat and sleep and chase balls. Pretending to be a dog saying those things is not particularly clever. Same goes for the cat ones. I am so confused by how people think those are funny.

I hated that movie SO MUCH. It was highly recommended to me by a friend, so I watched the whole thing, but I spent the whole time thinking about how awful it was and how much I hated almost everything about it and why would my friend think I would like this?