Do you not have insurance or are you just hiding from the doc?

If you’re scared you’re having a stroke, you can push your hands together and as long as one side doesn’t totally destroy the other, you’re probably fine.

Between the drinking and the 8+ hours of rest... I feel like... is this weird thing triggered by dehydration? You get dehydrated when you drink and sometimes if you sleep extra (especially with your mouth open) you get dehydrated too? Idk. 

I’m with you. Also, anxiety symptoms.

Thanks for writing this. Going to a therapist and learning about negative thought patterns (and asking myself if I’m in touch with reality when I think things) has helped me so much. I’m certainly still depressed, but it’s helped so much with daily life. I need to start doing more stuff that I want to do, but i’m…

I think I agree, but we both know if this was a real letter, they are already not tipping. 

I want to come to Thanksgiving at your house. 

My friend is like this, so at least with some anecdotal evidence, you’re not alone.

In case you want to read about that first one and haven’t before:

I like Ortberg a lot (listen to the podcast), but I know what you mean. I think that letter was the reason I found Dear Prudie

Don’t email anything you wouldn’t yell off your roof. 

Halloween is fun. Now, if you’re like one of those people who is like WE HAVE TO MAKE THIS A NIGHT TO REMEMBER and I WILL ACCEPT NOTHING BUT PERFECTION (either from my children or my friends at the bar), youre wild and I want nothing to do with you.

The heart wants what it wants. and it wants a henley. 

My first thought with this video was the flu as well. Horrific. Deadly.

I don’t disagree, but you know how there are different levels of the same crime?

I’m with Kate. I just ate some Dots. 

Seconded. This is why I think they’re number 1. 

Alas, my murdered remains are incapable of learning anything. :( 

What is a button up tee? A Henley-type shirt? Because if it is, that’s actually number 1. If it’s something else I’ve never heard of, fuck it. 

The Wuthering Heights paragraph made me laugh so hard that it made me CONSIDER reading Wuthering Heights, which is something no one else has ever done before. Bravo.