I’m totally fine with people napping on me as long as they weren’t creppy before, they don’t drool, and their hand doesn’t somehow end up on my breast (happened twice, they woke up in pain). But if they’re awake and in my space? Nope. They ought to know better.

Preach. I don’t even put it up with my partner sometimes because he has a tendency to take over all available space.

And told her story about the worst troll a while back on TAL. I could swear I saw her byline on a Guardian article a few years ago, too. Oh, Lindy, our lady of light, raise us up from this purgatory and redeem us from this state of grayness in perpetuity.

And now with Mark gone, who can we petition for love/ungraying? I think Lindy got me ungrayed a few years ago, but she’s left us for...where is she? She pops up all over, iirc.

Me, too. Started in the womb. In my defense, it was crowded in there.

Gray still/again?

Teach me your ways. I’ll bring the wine.

Ding ding ding! As if latching onto one gaggle of super-famous people and hating them for their “unearned” fame is the same thing as taste and discernment.

Yay, Peace Corps! Go you! I can’t believe people are asking if you think you’ll come back married. That’s just...I can’t even begin to understand why anyone’s mind would go there. I’m so jealous of you getting to go out and make a difference. It’s been years since I did anything like that.

I have nothing to add, I just really love how you put this.

We need this narrative of domestic violence, too. I left post-K NOLA where I’d seen and experienced enough shit that I still wake up screaming, and jumped right into a relationship where within a month he was throwing things at me, slamming me into walls, and strangling me. Since he never struck me with fists or feet,…

I’m trying to think of what on earth I would say and the best I’ve come up with is, “What a beautiful, happily fed baby!” And then in a whisper, “If lunch is done, might I suggest you put the good china back on the shelf for now? If you’d like?”

Nooo! KMK, what are you doing to me? Now I have to leave my partner in order to pursue you. And he’ll probably be my major competition. :(

I don’t understand this driving behavior. I grew up on an island. Not a ferry-accessible island, just a tiny hunk of rock in the middle of the Pacific. You don’t lean on your horn if some doesn’t notice the light has changed. You give a single short reminder beep if a few seconds have passed. The only times you lean…

The amount of effort it takes to get a gun in Massachusetts or a personal firearm in Hawaii (the state with the most stringent gun laws at the time of the Xerox massacre) might make your point. What are the permit prereqs for open carry in Texas? I ask as a member of families who own guns in HI and MA.

I waited for Sherlock all day in HI (because they said its be on at 7 our time) and then it was only on on Oahu, so my partner and I streamed Big Fat Quiz of the Year instead. And then he flew away to Colorado. Damned winter sports enthusiasts.

I’d like to formally petition for your hand in matrimony, on the grounds of your ability to say what I was thinking, but coherently.

It’s not, at all. That’s why they asked if I’d been to the mainland US in the past year. Nope, Hawaii doesn’t have snakes or Lyme. In fact, I don't know anyone who got a tick while hiking who wasn't also hunting.

I’m always amazed at how long it often takes my friends in Lyme-heavy areas to get tested. As a teenager Hawaii, I was feeling awful and maybe the fifth thing they asked in the first appointment was “Have you been to the mainland in the last year? Were you outside in the country?” Since the answer to both was yes, I…

I think of it the way I think of chipotle: both companies have millions of repeat customers, so if there’s a problem, it’s likely they all have this one point in common, whether or not it’s the cause.