Gaah! I have interviews next week! I posted here a few weeks ago about depression and how I felt so worthless because I couldn’t find a job. But I got interviews for next week! I could cry I am so happy.

I was raised in a very liberal Catholic tradition, so I can’t say that I have a ton of experience with Catholics who are extremely anti-choice. But, I knew countless people who went to the March for Life and were very serious about the whole thing (including holding signs with nasty pictures and slogans written on…

Oh, I agree. I would add that that I think that applies to the Catholic Church period. It is incredibly frustrating.

Before the comments dissolve into angry cries of “we don’t need to be forgiven” (which, don’t get me wrong, is a fair point), it should be pointed out that this is a step in the right direction. If priests can absolve the sin, then it is in a sense less serious. If it is less serious, then it will be more acceptable.…

Oh. Now it all makes sense. Whenever I saw someone reading the Irish Rover I gave serious side eye. You gotta keep that at home.

That’s what I thought about Shannon’s hostility too. I also wondered if the other woman and Shannon were friends or acquaintances or something. Shannon’s anger about the phone call at the beginning of the season was just so weird.

Burner created because I don’t want to out myself. I think I am on the verge of becoming very seriously depressed. I just graduated grad school. I couldn’t find anything with a firm in my field, so I ended up accepting a fellowship in a semi-unrelated field in India. Long story short, there was major drama with…