Your kitty therapy stories are a highlight of my week. It’s wonderful what you are doing for these furballs.

We have a clothes line and use it most of the year. It’s great.

Good for you for going to a therapist! It’s probably going to be weird at first because you’re starting a new relationship. Take your time, get comfortable, and keep in mind that it's all about you so let your impulses guide you.

This is my Tesla, who prefers to look at the world upside down.

Don’t give them back. He doesn’t deserve it, the jerk.

I think I’d end up like this, too. I love my job (at a non-profit arts organization) and find it personally, if not financially, rewarding. I’m sure I’d go back, but first I’d set up a big endowment so we could have 50% more staff (sounds cool, but that’s two extra people) so there’s less burnout going around.

That is a very Good Place title.

I actually lost the thread of his ethics summary because of that right bicep. And I’m not generally about the biceps.

I, a Canadian, agree entirely with your assessment of marijuana, yet I am glad this day is here.

It’s very much back, and full of awesomeness. Harron sometimes goes for out of left field tabs (like teen mags) and it’s hilarious.

Sometimes naps are important too. Strong feelings are exhausting and it’s important to take care of yourself. Being tired makes every situation worse, in my experience.

We were already going to die. Mostly of cancer, because we can fix great swaths of the other maladies.

My Something Good feels small but I am reminded by your post that when you add up two or five or ten small things the Good actually makes a difference for those days when it’s safest in bed under the covers.

That’s wonderful news. Congratulations!

It’s difficult to resist a good caulk joke! I almost wrote ‘hard’ but that’s an innuendo too far, I fear.

Ihad terrible withdrawal coming off quetiapine last spring so I could start trintillex. Ended up missing work for a lot of the symptoms you are having. One big thing I did was massively dose up on B12. It helps with the energy drain and it is generally good for your mental health.

Could you bypass the awkwardness by proposing a group social outing for your film club? One where you can talk with her in a non-school, non-club context?

Im an irrational rage monster, too. My husband hates it, but he’s got the same problem so ours is a volitile house. Like you, I just yell or growl or whatever and then *poof* it’s done.

I have two men who come to mind who are actually in the public eye: David Suzuki and Stephen Lewis. Both activists, they each also have long term marriages to succesful and amazing women who they appear to treat very well. Relationships of equality and respect - admirable.

Seconding your opinion. I reach for my phone whenever they are on screen alone. I don’t want to fast forward in case they actually discuss plot, but I refuse to pay attention until they do. Same for JesseFromBurnNotice, who may or may not have a plot but I haven't figured out how to care.