I acted in Arthur Miller’s play Playing for Time (about a woman’s orchestra in one of the death camps) way back in high school. I played an older Jewish woman who comes in on one of the trains, strips down (to a slip, this being high school) for the Nazi guards, then is left in one of the barracks to die. That was…

I’m on my phone right now, so I can’t copy/paste the link, but Univision was planning to layoff a massive amount of the staff; their union intervened and negotiated for a buyout option for departing writers instead. There are now rumors of Univision may sell the whole thing, though, so who knows what’s coming next?…

Yeah, I gave up on copy editing a couple years ago myself. Nobody wants to even entertain the notion of paying anyone to do it anymore, which is insane to me, but... Here we are!

Keep what you LOVE for yourself, sell/do something you LIKE.

I was already sad about these departures, even as I understand why they’re happening (and I truly am glad that y’all had a good union to cushion the blow as much as possible), but... Dammit, I am saddest about Joanna. :(

Every day seriously feels a little bit more like we’re living in the immediate prequel to Children of Men.

Ugh, same. As soon as these posts started rolling in, I thought, “But please, not Joanna,” and yet here we are. DAMMIT.

Haha, I hope it works out! They can be funny little creatures. Buster is perfectly happy to be petted, have his belly rubbed, be picked up, etc., but depending on mood, the duration of any of these things is definitely up for debate, haha.

That’s what I was thinking! Like, is anyone still really around to post much, the later it gets? This one looks like it’s time stamped at nearly 10pm!

It really is! Just a little earlier, I was feeling low energy and a bit restless, and he was following me all around the apartment, as he often does, so I just picked him up and cuddled him to my face while he purred and purred. Kitties make everyone feel better.

Yes! I wanted to earlier, but was posting from my desktop, and it’s my cell phone that is currently already loaded with way too many kitty photos. Here he is, after using aforementioned nose boop to let me know he wanted to see what was going on outside and could I please open the blinds?

The first time he did it, my mouth literally dropped open with sheer delight. SO CUTE.

The past couple of SNS posts, at least, and including this one, have gone up too late for me to feel like I can still really participate, which is a bit of a bummer, ngl.

True! I’m sure it also helped that my roommate was kind enough to drop me off, getting to the first terminal is by far the quickest, easiest thing, and it was like, 5AM, so not really that busy (yet).

I just flew out of (and back into) LAX for the first time ever a couple months ago, and it was fine! (I may feel this way because I flew Southwest, which now has literally the entire first terminal to itself, it seems like.)

That’s how I got the nickname I’ve had since I was 15, which I’m even using on this site!

I’m glad to hear you’ve had good experiences — I know how difficult, hearing about many friends’ struggles over years re: finding the right therapist — as it can be really hit or miss. I don’t see him as a patient, obviously, but I’m really grateful to know that my fella in NY is one of the real gems, as far as…

I should also add, as a general rule, I just kind of really... don’t date. I find even thinking about it exhausting. This was much more along the lines of taking a long standing relationship at a long distance to the next level; it just happened to click perfectly, be amazing the entire time, and end up lasting a full…

I had my own a couple months ago, but with a couple caveats: (1) we’d been doing the long-distance thing via emailing/phone calls/Skype sessions, etc. for ages beforehand, and (2) we didn’t quite spend the entirety of those 5 days together. We did spend every minute we could together, yes, but it was also my first…

I keep coming back to this fantastic song by the late, great Phil Ochs all the time lately, written way back in 1966, still relevant as ever today...