Smething happens as a barista when you’re surrounded by humming machines, crowd noises, trying to keep a ton of short term info in your head, Linda has shown up at the side of the counter and is screaming at you because the half n half is empty and your brain suddenly can’t remember how to spell Tom.

I just look at the menu and just say the number of ounces. After working at non-Starbucks it seems like the most consistent way to order at any shop. Where I work now we only have two sizes, people always ask for medium and when I point out our cup sizes they never consistently ask for one size over the other.

Nothing for Eighth Grade?! I’m astonished. This is a boring year for nominations.

Everyone dies so feudalism can end. 

Did you never read the letters to the editor in the newspaper pre-twitter?

I was a youth services librarian for years and I could never convince my kids to try ebooks, even when the digital copies of popular books were all we had available.

Working in a library cured me of my book hoarding. Dealing with moldy books or constantly shifting shelves to make room for new books when we were overdue for a good weed made me stop looking at books as sentimental items. 

The only thing in my pulls right now (until Paper Girls/Chilling Adventures of Sabrina return) is Man Eaters, which I’m pretty disappointed with. I don’t like superheroes, do like sci fi and speculative fiction but in the #metoo era I’m pretty dead set on only reading stories with female leads, preferably written by…

In my previous job I was written up yearly for using my sick leave. I worked with kids (and my coworkers always came in sick) so I got sick every few months for a couple of days. I had to bring in a doctor’s note every time I was sick and my copay to a walk-in clinic was $150. Awful times. Now I'm in a counter service…

I think this every day. How am I not rich?

They try but the new owner won't allow us to take tips.

I’ve been working at a coffee bar in a store that serves a lot of celebrities and ridiculously rich people and this sounds like the kind of small talk I have to maneuver my way through far too often. It’s as uncomfortable in real life as this scene makes it look.

Oh yeah, both annoying but he's the worst. I read she's an Instagram life coach or something.

Yeah. It was awful to watch. She’s conventionally attractive in every way and way to critical of herself. Why should she feel guilty for hating laundry? Who likes folding clothes (other than Marie Kondo).

I noticed a few women on the show seemed to feel internalized pressure to do it all when they have a husband and kids who can pick up some of the slack. I’m glad Kondo always made a point to put different family members in charge of their own projects and spaces to lift some of that burden.

I love how the husband criticized his wife for paying for laundry service when he's obviously not doing any of the housework or child care.

I was in 8th grade and had a very tame party notable mainly because it was the first time I ate pizza rolls and what a life changing experience that was. I also wore a shirt with a mandala print and bell sleeves that were 3/4 not by design but because I had gangly long arms and everything at that time seemed to cut…

For me it was Narnia and all the children’s Brit Lit I read—though I don’t know why, since they never painted a rosy picture of boarding school life.

I took him so seriously when I was in high school and will likely always have a soft spot for Annie Hall, but I often think now about the line he has about Sylvia Plath and the “college girl mentality” that has a totally different meaning to me now. I took him as the ideal intellectual and it put me off Plath until I…

I stopped using Yelp because I couldn't read reviews or check pictures on my phone without being forced to download the app. No one wants to download the Yelp app just to find a good restaurant nearby when Google has the same info without the hassle.