I feel the need to make a distinction here: I don’t find the character particularly compelling, but I find the way GRRM is starting to collect characters and concentrate energy on a couple of locations (one of which being Mereen) compelling. He had them spread so far for so long, that anything bringing us back to the…

yes, I remember being very frustrated at that point in the books as well. This is part of why Tyrion and *spoiler alert* some of the Ironborn converging on Mereen is so exciting. Even the near miss of Sam and Arya had a tension that most of the rest of that book did not possess.

They look just like the stray that has adopted us!

That’s exactly what it was for me too! Except the change in management happened like 2 years ago and I was stupid for sticking around as long as I did. Funny thing is, my old coworkers texted me mid-week to tell me that the replacement boss had gotten the sack.

I started my new job this week! It’s a big step up in responsibility for me and I handled it like a champ if I say so myself. I’ve been killing it in meetings all week and turning out good looking work and impressing people with knowledge, and feeling damned good about it. My old job often left me feeling like I was…

It’s a mother’s parent’s responsibility not to raise a rapist.

yeah, this would be not only acceptable but admired in my office. Where, btw, many of us can be spotted wearing Zara’s clothes. In fact I’d say we’re pretty much their target market so maybe they’re misunderstanding their audience a bit.

If my child behaved like that I’d have to find something useful for them to do, like work. Or helping out people who have real things to worry about.

I think this is what being sensible is. But then again, I only even clicked this headline in order to come down here and yell at a cloud.

oh I just skip the articles like that TBH. Why click something I already know will get my hackles up?

There have been a number of studies on this and articles summarizing and analyzing them, but just a couple:

So the writer admits it’s all in their own head, because they were coming to the viewing of this with that horror in mind already? I suppose that’s good to know.

The place where it breaks down for me is that the price does not seem at all reasonable for a shared living situation.

ew, I got Swiss. I hate swiss cheese, that quiz must be defective.

Just today I mentioned to a friend that I’d been depressed lately (I’m prone to depressive episodes but don’t suffer chronically the way many do) and he asked why. I could only say, “because that’s the way I get sometimes.” I just surprised me to be asked for a reason for depression, like ehhhh that’s not really how…

A group of deer visited the campsite where my husband and I got married. We saw them several times—while setting up, then I saw them the morning before when I woke up early, and I guess they showed up to cocktail hour too. Best wedding crashers ever!

I cancelled my Birchbox subscription this week. After three months of getting perfume (which I couldn’t even request to not get, I could only get it reduced to every other month) and facial masks (which I do love but come on, the same thing every month?), and seeing my husband get the men’s version with shave gel, a…

“Never in this line of work is it acceptable to respond to reasonable and legitimate questioning with use of physical force.”

I'm hella nauseous right now but if those chips are ruffles, count me in!

Of course in Trump’s world women should be punished and men shouldn’t. Because Trump wants unlimited freedoms for himself and curtailed freedoms for others, and women are part of the “other” to him.