When I lived in London, I tried so hard to fit in stylistically. I wear a lot of flowy clothes and colors, and London is more about clean lines and grays/muted pearly pastels. Like any city, there are the wilder, funky areas, but that was my general impression.

Re: texting the friend, I have a couple of friends who I’m just always texting. One of them is my sister; we just have a running thread of texts throughout the day. It’s not so much that I think any given thought is important and significant, but that my tic when I am bored or just looking for a human connection is to…

The wisest thing my dad ever told me was that you should always look back on yourself five years ago and cringe with embarrassment. It has been incredibly true thus far in my life, but it does really set me up for wondering what I’ll be cringing about in five years!

Hahha, the last time I went backpacking (for, like, a weekend, so not on this scale), I realized I had forgotten to bring any bottoms besides my hiking shorts, which were way too gross to be wearing in the towns every night. I ended up buying a sweet wool scarf that doubled as a skirt when wrapped around my waist and…

Yeah I didn’t love that. I think it’s great if traveling helped you to have a personal revelation about how you, personally, are using the performance of beauty in your life. And it sounds like that happened for her, and that is amazing! But don’t generalize out to everyone.

Probably not? I could see someone doing this through, say, their 30s with nothing saved and then still being OK if they got a decent job and lived really frugally after. Or quitting a good job where they already had a ton saved to travel might work. Otherwise...maybe people think they will get a book deal for their…

I am constantly astonished at the degree to which teaching is treated as something anyone can do as long as they have a vague knowledge of the subject. I was a secondary school teacher for a while, so I do have training, but I have taught at many other levels since, and at most, there would be a one-day seminar…

Ahhhh that is horrible. I’m so sorry. Does she seem happy with him at least? God I don’t know what I’d do if one of my sisters married a shithead.

My sister had someone from the hotel to bring her drinks!

I have never seen it end badly, so I was always surprised by how much people hate it. Like, at my sister’s wedding, they kind of “booped” each other on the nose with some cake, maaaaaybe got a teeny bit of icing on there, and then ate the pieces. It was really cute!

My friend had these amazing BBQ bourbon pretzel pieces at her wedding, and everybody drunk ate them on the bus ride back to the hotel. I cannot imagine there was a single pretzel piece left in the entire city. I remember them as the most amazing thing I have ever eaten, although, you know, drunk eating, so who knows?

I said something to a friend once. We were very close at the time (still are, but we actually lived near each other then so were extra close), and had been talking for an hour or so, and I just said, “Hey, this is probably out of line, and I will never bring it up again, but just once I want to tell you that I think…

My partner and I were lying in bed, and there had been a long pause, and I said something like, “Hey, I’m gonna marry you. Is that OK?” And he said that it was. And then I said, “So...we’re engaged!” And he was horrified, because there are rules and traditions and rings and proposals.

Technically my partner used his card to pay for my ring, but like...it’s a card for an account I transfer money into because he also “technically” pays our rent. So I guess you could argue that he paid for it, but I transferred extra money into his account for a while after that. I would imagine that’s often the case;…

Can I say that a woman named “Gay Butler” probably had a hard enough time in middle school that I’m inclined to give her a pass?

Oh jeez. That stinks. As someone who still wears heels periodically, let me say that heels are insane. It is nuts that we wear them regularly, or even at all!

Haha, it’s a lot easier to look back with empathy and clarity on the internet, when I’m choosing my words carefully. I can be quite bitter and vindictive over a glass of wine and facebook stalking!

When we were at the Opry, I passed a comment about the fact that I find it difficult to tell the men on Nashville apart, as they are basically all dark-haired white men making the same whiny face. People vehemently disagreed. But, like, tell me these men look markedly different from each other.

This study’s methodology seems legit.

Even when I saw the name come up on imdb, I thought it must be a mistake. I had to stare at the picture for a while before I could see it.