Yes! She is a badass and I wouldn’t mind living her life. Even though I don’t really like to cook, I wouldn’t mind entertaining my legions of gay friends, shopping at adorable Hamptons cheese or seafood shops, and saying “how easy is that?” all the time. There was this one episode where she sent Alec Baldwin on an…

You make some really great points here. I have friends in various European countries (hooray for the internet!) and sometimes I feel like I’m less cultured or something because I haven’t been to as many places as them. But they can just take a day trip to France or something relatively easily, whereas I would need to…

I think eventually she will!

Yeah, I would see this fairly often as a kid too. I always thought it looked weird on them.

Yup, I have the same existential terror. I posted about it in a Jezebel SNS thread once and a lot of people said they felt the same way, which made me feel a little better.

The Barber Agnus Dei/Adagio for Strings is, to steal randilyn’s descriptor, sublime.

I used to nap to the SciFi channel (back before it was “SyFy”) and now will sometimes do so with Star Trek on Netflix. Something about dialogue-heavy nerd shows is very relaxing to me!

Pure genius!

I wish I had ice cream. :(

Aaahhhh he’s so teensy! I love the bow tie!

I can’t offer an “it gets better” story (never been pregnant) but I’m sending lots of good vibes your way!

Oh yeah, it would be sad to have to go and watch everyone else eat ice cream.

That’s really tough. It sounds like your friend is in a very different place from the last time you saw her. Staying somewhere else next time is a good idea, that way you can have some space. And she might like to have girls’ time away from the family in the hotel with you, too!

Meeee!

Oh, I didn’t even notice the cover-up till you mentioned it. Sounds like it’s going to be even more lovely when it’s done. :)

Also, “Nazi Pinterest” sounds like the premise for a great comedy skit.

That is actually kind of fascinating, in a sick way. Maybe you should have the couple over and watch Inglourious Basterds, just for funsies.

Wow, that is stunning! Is it going to be colored in?

Cool! I read the book ages ago, and for some reason it didn’t really click with me, but I’ve heard great things about the show.

I just looked the show up to see what it was, it looks pretty interesting, and very different from most reality shows.