As a firmly pro-choice vegetarian, I’m sure this guy and I would have a lot to talk about.

Do you not have boiled potatoes?? Okay, yes, I am Irish and here it’s like, one of the two essential components for a default dinner. You just put potatoes in a pot of water and boil the water until they’re cooked, add salt to the water if you want, add butter or whatever seasonings to the finished potatoes to taste.…

I work security in a hospital (obviously no violence is accepted), and it’s wonderful in some ways. You’re still very often “customer service”, but if your boss isn’t incompetent, he/she will back you as long as you’re being equally as polite to people who need your services. Good security bosses “don’t take shit”…

I’m not going to disagree with your perspective. I was just pointing out that you were also once a “preteen little shitbrat” and will one day be in the cohort of “the rudest motherfuckers around.”

Teens are teens and adults are adults. Whatever we say about you was said about us at your age, etc. And yes, it was also bullshit back then, too.

I don’t want to say it’s rude per se, but when I tried for a second child, it never happened. And that can be difficult and somewhat painful to bring up. All I can say is that I was very lucky to have my son.

I completely agree. I’ve had some rude teens (what is it with hoverboards that makes people turn into total assholes?!), but overwhelmingly them and small children that can talk are pretty polite! Even preteens are.... well, not polite, but generally just unaware at least in my experience.

But it’s adults that are the…

Smile and make eye contact. Get off your goddamn phone. Treat people like they are humans and not robot servants. Thank you.

“They said the president had made his decision and there wasn’t any changing that.”

In other news, the Islamic State’s campaign for a global holy war seems to be coming along nicely.

There used to be a cartoonist who would illustrate people’s dreams that they submitted. It was great stuff! But I don’t think it’s still happening.

Certainly some of those are bad neighbors, but I’m not sure what the issue is with rabbits unless you just hate nature. Their droppings are really good for the soil. Also possums eat palmetto bugs.

that would be the hard part for me. I feel as though it’s pointless to write it down unless I can make it make sense; even if its just some semblance of sense. I’m a fictional writer, so even in my dream state, I think sometimes I’m in between light and REM sleep where I can’t 100% control everything but I am aware…

I’ve tried to keep a dream journal, but even when I remember my dreams, I can never start from the beginning. I do an ok job of remembering what was happening just before I woke up, but I lose everything quickly trying to backwards from there.

much better advise than me yelling DON’T TOUCH ME at anyone that gets close...although it is funny when it makes old people pee

If you’re interested, there’s a form for reporting injuries caused by EOs: http://www.atlanticinstitute.com/injury-reporting/ with an aromatherapy agency. They’re trying to collect data to promote regulation and promotion of responsible use of essential oils in the US.

Many people do. I get strange looks when I point out that aspirin started out as willowbark tea, so maybe lay off the judging of herbs as drugs, eh? My dream is evidence-based “alternative” medicine, but it seems a pipe dream, especially with FDA refusal to regulate supplements.

Learning to lucid dream has had the lovely side-effect of essentially rendering nightmares completely mundane for me. They can’t scare me anymore because anytime anything unnatural happens, it will automatically trigger the dream becoming lucid because I recognize it isn’t real.

Fresh pineapple gives me tongue blisters and I’ve recently (at 43!) developed a walnut allergy, though the warning signs were there for the last couple of years. Tingly mouth is just the first step in losing your favorite foods :(

Men sure are emotional and irrational lately. I think we need to stop letting them make statements, run things, and read the news until we can get a handle on what’s happening.