Honestly? If this is your situation, do everything you can to find a new job. Do not assume this is something you can work around. Do not assume that your boss’s superior and/or HR will be remotely interested in or sympathetic to your plight. Do not assume you can work through it unaffected. It’s easy for this to…

Claire, how long would it take to get eggs to that delicious-looking point in a stovetop saucepan if they start with boiling water? I don’t have an Instant Pot (yet).

That is certainly the approach we’re starting to see in Canada, although TBH I think the main reasoning behind it is to stretch out our verrrrry thin stock of vaccines. It’s taking place painfully slow up here :(

1. Salads
2. Tuna salad
3. Martinis and Bloody Marys
4. Any and all batters
5. A roasted bird
6. Caramel
7. Airplane food
8. Bland tomatoes
9. Apples

Come, now. Surely the original odd couple

OK, that is brilliant :)

Exactly what I was thinking. Wish they had these up here in Canada. That would be my idea of heaven.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, season 5, “The Body.” I’m still gutted, every time I watch it. A heartwrenching depiction of the ways shock and grief manifest when someone you love dies.

I really miss experiencing pure solitude in my home. My husband is retired and is present almost all the time. It also so happens that he times his own outings for those times when I’m already committed to some task. I am longing for a few hours of absolute solitude to luxuriate in. Don’t misunderstand me, he’s a…

Well, first of all I was mainly making a joke. Oxford-AstraZeneca didn’t even get mentioned in this article.

Blue rubber bands of broccoli are the best. I venerate them.

Make this dish even faster with one simple change:

“I got Pfizer!”

The most recent gender-swap I can think of is Your Name, assuming that anime counts too.

Turnabout is still pretty damn funny, even today. And I’ll never hear the word “pith” again without thinking of it.

Pretty much this.

I attended a children’s matinee on the weekend. I was a teenager and deeply unimpressed by the film’s emotional manipulation, but the younger kiddies there were wailing loudly with grief during the death scene. I don’t think the film ever scared those kids, but it might have scarred them just a little.

When you start meditating and you begin to settle into it, it often seems that your mental distractions intensify tenfold. This is because your ability to notice and identify mental wandering while it’s happening is becoming sharper. It’s actually a sign that you’re learning to pay attention.

That might be an idea. I may have a word with the property management company about solutions after all. The foam approach (coupled with steel wool?) sounds like it could work. Of course, if places of access aren’t blocked, they’ll just return, so I need to be sure they’ll take it seriously.

My lease allows a cat…

But that’s the problem. Consumers expect, demand cheap meat. And so we’re incentivizing the meat industry to keep it cheap by any means necessary — which means excruciating living (and dying) conditions for livestock, low pay and horrible working conditions for employees, and virtually no legislative oversight.