Thanks for the info. I keep hearing the painkiller thing is key, so I’ll be sure to pay attention to that. Glad to hear recovery isn’t too bananas either. I’m hoping that being young and otherwise healthy should help!

Okay, I have a two part question. For health reasons I have to have a scheduled c-section, and that c-section will be done with a vertical incision. Anybody who’s had one this way — what was it like? Did it heal alright? I know it seems vain, but did you get over having a scar run up your belly (I guess the same could…

I just started reading Middlemarch. It’s so funny, I had no idea. Like laugh out loud funny. Before that I read Mieville’s Iron Council which is wonderful and weird and I will definitely reread one day.

Until you realize that many women dress and decorate to impress other women, and not men. And that makeup, like other forms of creation, is fun.

Oh god oh god oh god

I wouldn’t even say that my experience went into the realm of serious abuse (spankings were so normative when I was a kid!), but yeah, it still lingers for sure. It’s actually gotten worse as I’ve gotten older too and gotten more perspective on it. Like, how the fuck do you hit kids? Even if just a “spanking”? How is…

Yikes, I’m sorry you went through that, and you are right that it fucks up your interaction with other people. For me it’s especially with men and male authority. Obviously that’s not exclusively related to spankings, but what to my adult mind seemed like pretty excessive and shaming punishments for banal kids stuff…

I love this song so much. I also love Sam Roberts, so there’s that.

I picture you saying this in a British accent. It’s perfect.

Ha I was spanked and I am decidedly not fine. And I still resent my father for doing it.

He was also where a lilac coloured shirt last night. It was perfect.

I am gigantically pregnant and have very long hair so have decided to go as Splendid from Fury Road. I’m not sure how many people will get it but it’s awesome nonetheless. And really just consists of a dirty sheet.

And don’t forget Harper’s enthusiasm for the BS that is the TPP!

I didn’t know this was going to be a movie. But man, I hated the book. Hopefully the adaptation is better.

I wish I had advice for insomnia during pregnancy. I wake up pretty regularly now at about 3 AM and can’t sleep for hours. I’ve also had nights where I just don’t sleep. Oddly I don’t feel terrible the next day, but I work from home, so that makes it easier.

I think you are right about our understanding changing through developments in neuroscience. Even how we understand imagination will change. Michael Phelps is known to train by imagining in vivid detail himself racing and winning. I don’t know if this in the end made him a more successful athlete, but it’s interesting…

Haha that’s true!

OMG the Transporter would destroy Legolas. I mean, in a world where we’re all barbarians fighting over women, of course.

So when do we see the ‘Which Grease 2 Character Are You?’ quiz? Because the sequel is actually kind of a gem. You could still end up as the xylophone!