I’m getting my poke in 2 hours, baby! I tidied up my apartment, got snacks and easy meals, and even rented some DVDs (pretentious, I know, but I want that business to still exist after the pandemic) so I can ride out any symptoms in style. 

I would rather lose than be on that team.

Man, I like Lily’s take on participation trophies from HIMYM. When you work really hard at something, doesn’t it feel nice to have someone acknowledge that even if you didn’t win? It’s youth sports, not your entire life. Kids know that the ultimate prize is coming in first, but some of us were never, ever going to win…

Maybe it was just because I was never super great at sports, but I was always told that the point of playing sports was to have fun, not to win. Even if trans girls did perform better than average in their sports, most kids and teens playing sports aren’t going to be top athletes in their sports regardless of gender.…

This sounds like someone trying to be helpful, but I really don’t think that I had to go through what I did to understand that I didn’t want someone who actively destroyed my self-esteem to the point where I was totally isolated from my friends and barely wanted to speak aloud. If I had known where things were headed…

I don’t know if it was a date really, but I have this great memory of going with my ex to Target so he could buy more underwear. We were both really hungover and he kept cracking jokes and making me laugh. We spent a lot of time playing whatever game was in the X-Box demo station. He was a really emotionally…

One of my favorite shows growing up was “Dark Angel” and I kept on imagining that was going to happen. With all the drones and the growth of income inequality I wasn’t entirely wrong...

So it’s my responsibility to have a baby because I’m supposed to support other people in retirement even though I’m never going to get to have one?* I mean, I’m not one of those people who’s unwilling to pay taxes in to support the public good. I’m happy to pay a higher tax rate (obviously based on income with…

Really? What I’m looking forward to is the mayor of one of the more liberal cities in Texas like Austin or even Huston to still try to implement city wide restrictions to slow the spread and for the state to pass a law saying mayors aren’t allowed to do that. But by “looking forward to” I really mean “I hope the…

Ah, the old “I saw this new thing at the grocery store so I bought it out of curiosity and I'll figure out what to do with it later" style of shopping. It's how I buy fruit.

Obviously this means she has to lead a D&D group down there. That’s what spooky mystery basements are for.

Yeah, the length of the stay really impacts how good or bad this move is. If you’re housing someone in a shitty situation for a few days to a week it’s not great, but if you’re keeping children in these facilities for months that turns to awful. One thing the administration could do to mitigate this is to be willing…

You might be underestimating some of what goes on in rural areas. Out in the sticks most people own cars, so bus riders are homeless, students, or people with DUIs. Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with any of the above (apart from that last category, especially when you consider many people with DUIs…

It was definitely the most memorable thing to happen to me on that bus. Mostly it was just your run of the mill drudgery, bad smells, and unreliable arrival times.

I was riding the county bus home, and it was filling up as it was about 6 or 7 pm. A man sits down next to me and puts his backpack between his legs on the floor in front of him. “Don’t be surprised if a head pops out of this bag,” he tells me. Now, maybe I just read/listen/watch way too much true crime, but I…

I wish more of these stories would include a map or blueprint for the people who do test positive. Inevitably some will. I've seen plenty of programs that encourage testing but next to nothing on the follow through for people who get the bad news.

Well, after a bit of internet reading I decided to pivot to profiteroles instead of eclairs because, while the dough and filling are essentially the same, because of the shape they are an easier bake for someone unfamiliar with choux pastry. They turned out very good, and I ended up with a lot of them! The only…

Although both of them could be toxic to the other, Eric and Donna’s (first) break-up on That 70s Show still gets to me. Both when it happens at the end of the one episode, and the whole It’s a Wonderful Life themed following episode (honestly even the episode after that, too, although it’s undercut by the whole…

I took your advice. First batch is outta the oven and they look great! Thanks!

I’m a long time singleton at this point. I work on Valentine’s Day proper, so I plan on doing some baking tomorrow to bring in for my co-workers (I have no one else to dote on besides my roommates, but I already dote on them by being the only one in the house who buys things like sponges or toilet paper). The big plan…