The livestream for this cut out yesterday, and I’m a ball of emotions finally watching it. My mom was close to Carrie’s age and also died really suddenly and way too young. Star Wars was such a bonding experience for us, so this memorial business gets to me!

That does sound suspicious. This is potentially surprising, but the studentloans subreddit is full of helpful student loan nerds and someone may have run into your problem before.

Cool, let’s go ahead and construct the nation’s education policy around the complaint that it’s too time consuming for Navient to do their only job.

Trump and Putin are pretending to hate each other so no one knows they’re boning. I know a recycled teen drama plot when I see one.

Ah. I’m not sure there’s a compelling business case for “I want to live near my friends” but I guess a founder’s gonna do what a founder’s gonna do.

So true. Abstinence-only approaches to princess culture are doomed to fail.

Right? That was a selling point on his resume? What?

I really like seeing clothes on different types of models, even if they’re not exactly my size! I’m closer to 2X than an XS, so that’s way more useful in figuring out what clothes might look like on me. I already get that things are designed to fit very specifically proportioned small people without the pictures. No…

I honestly quit shopping there (except once-there was a really good sale and I had some time to kill) because sorting by size has been completely broken since the redesign. I don’t need to be taunted with cute stuff that’s not available to me. You are trying to take my money! Be considerate!

Can anyone explain to me why every company with a web presence still feels the need to base themselves in San Francisco? Moving there in particular seems like a terrible idea. Pittsburgh is a small city, but it’s not as though you can’t attract tech talent there. Google and Uber seem to be having good luck, and the…

Flats are fundamentally ephemeral, which is why I’ll never understand buying Tieks.

I’ve had really good luck with their comfort line. They do wear out, but not really faster than any other flats, and the low heels that I like have only suffered from dog chewing, though I don’t wear them daily. I have a really cute pair of floral heels that I love, too, and they’re comfortable enough! I honestly…

This. I put our registry info on our website and there was still some kind of shadow organization trying to figure out where through vague lines of questioning with my father.

This is insane behavior. Wow. I like to think that one’s actual friends would not freak out over something like this though. I just got married and am 100% not tracking gifts except to send thank you cards.

I think just tell them! We threw our own engagement party and said no gifts necessary. A couple people brought a house plant or bottle of wine but I think the expectation is that engagement parties are relaxed that way.

Fair point. This might have worked that way within the show had the showrunners not written a pretty clear rape scene and then turned around and told everyone that it was not a rape scene. Ugh.

You’re basically right about the attitude and the fact that it really shouldn’t be necessary. But WV has never had a diverse economy, and the beneficiaries of the coal industry have always mostly been out of the state or country, so there’s no money to reinvest. It’s also a really tough sell to other…

I was suspicious that he didn’t already have one. Their Pittsburgh cultural consultant needs to do better.

Some of these regs are kinda recent! One of my family members adopted the baby of their neighbor, because neighbor was having an affair while her husband was deployed. No explaining that indiscretion away. This was the late 50s though.

I think that’s the most common pathway. We know now that opiates (and other painkillers) are a Very Bad Idea for chronic pain, but they were prescribed super often for just about anything for long enough to create a lot of dependency. Then, of course, pill mills and heroin use blew up.