I’m so, so sorry both parts of this story happened to you.

This made me laugh quite a bit, thanks, Cocopop! Your comments are always so kind and real.

Thanks so much for this reply. You’re exactly right. I did get some good quality time with my parents, whom I won’t see again until Thanksgiving.

Thanks for sharing that, it made me feel better :-)

The wealthy orthodox Jewish women I know all wear wigs to obey that rule while not having to actually look different from those around them. Was at a Jewish high school graduation ceremony and only one woman actually had her hair wrapped.

Such a weird and shitty day. I’m going to try to do this without all the details: I offered to do a friend a favor, but it was one of those favors that kept getting bigger. Then I realized I had to work today, the day of the favor, so I made some crazy plans involving other people to do the thing even though I had to…

All Buffy gifs get stars and saves.

I work at a midsized state university, and all staff today got an email saying that someone left their retainer at a technology workshop and campus and to contact them to retrieve it.

I understand— my boyfriend already had a VPN bought and paid for. Otherwise, I would have been too lazy to make it happen.

That’s what we did this time around, but there was a pop-up saying that starting Sept 1, you’d need a “tv license” to stream stuff from the BBC. So we don’t know what we’re going to do for the next Olympics— Canada, maybe? Although I don’t know if they follow the BBC’s lead for how to do stuff.

Wow, I forgot about the stimulants. I mostly remember her discussion with her brand-new husband where they both realized (admitted?) that they wouldn’t be together if she were still fat. I just couldn’t imagine coming back from that in a relationship.

I don’t know if you’ve ever listened to the This American Life piece, but they actually play parts of her phone conversation with her troll. It’s incredibly affecting.
(If you do end up around This American Life’s page, there’s a much more recent episode called Tell Me I’m Fat, which excerpts the Dan Savage chapter…

The Cheat is not deaaaaaaaad! I'm so glad The Cheat is not dead.

Oh my gosh, I loved Shrill- it made me think about so much stuff but also made me laugh out loud. Then I went back and read Lindy’s piece on female purity. So good.

Oh my god, that is an unreadable collection of pasted tweets, gifs, and delusional self-righteousness.

My exact thought process.

Totally not the point, but those are only five sentences, right?