Oh, that’s rough! It’s good to hear you’re healing well, but it still sounds brutal. Hopefully, you continue to heal nicely, and that kiddo the eldest can handle not being picked up for a little while longer. And congrats!

I have a lot of friends who work in the Foreign Service, and the nanny thing is also really common there. It makes sense: you’re spending the majority of your career in another country, away from your entire familial support system. Depending on where you are, hired help is relatively affordable. Plus, a lot of people…

God, I want to be her. I want a turban and a caftan and a cavalcade of sexy men to attend to my every whim.

Exactly! Someone might not care for it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t stylish.

This would cheer me immensely. Bo 2020! He knows times are ruff, but he’s got the right stuff!

I’ll never be over it. I was 18 during the ‘08 campaign, and I walked in the rain to my polling place off campus. I cheered and cried with my friends in the theater house when the results came in. He was the first president I ever got to vote for, and damn was it a good way to start—with a man who looked like me, and…

It’s seriously magic.

They are so challenging! But I am glad I finally own a printer again. And the fountain pen is a Pilot, so it’s only like 11 dollars on Amazon—you should totally get one!

Once, I was feeling silly, and decided to send my sister a video of me peeling off one of those masks while making sustained eye contact with the camera. That’s the sort of relationship we have.

Haha! I’m so glad it’s not just me!

That’s excellent! I finally started exfoliating my face again, and did a mask this morning (mostly to stave off the appearance of being hungover). My face feels human again!

My something good for this week was finally starting to figure out my printer. It is wireless and fiddly, and it means I can print out my readings for class and things with ease! I also bought a new fountain pen, and it’s been fun to sit around and write fake old-fashioned letters.

I’m never not here for Diamond Dan. Or any appearance of Ginuwine’s “Pony”.

It’s somewhat irrational, but I hate illusion cakes: I don’t like cakes that look like savory foods. If I want a burger, I’ll eat a burger—stop messing with my eyes!

I just watched the first episode—it’s largely delightful, but I have two criticisms. 1) The directions for the technical are too detailed now. 2) Prue’s catchphrase: “It’s not worth the calories”. Of all the Puritanical food-shaming bullshit, Prue! THAT IS NOT WHY ANYONE WATCHES THIS SHOW.

I agree about the expensive babysitter. Childcare is expensive, but truly: the cheapest way to pay is money. Alienation of parental affection is abusive, and free child abuse ain’t exactly a bargain.

True. People talk about how children deserve to have a relationship with both parents—but that’s hardly an unmitigated good. As a child, I was told it was important to have a good relationship with my father, but no one told me that he had to care about that for it to actually happen. Otherwise, I kept wondering why I…

For me, the scariest episode was 27, about the Hinterkaifeck murders. Shudder.

I think some of them see his wealth as a just reward for his piety. I used to work with a woman who was a huge fan of his and honestly, the mental gymnastics are astounding.

I occasionally remind myself that Jesus told me to love my neighbors—he never said I had to like them (newspaper stealing sons of bitches).