This is great news! I went to school in Seattle and lived there for a while after graduation, but moved away a long time ago (in the mid-aughts). I go back regularly to visit, and the city has changed SO much. I don’t recognize several neighborhoods now, especially areas like South Lake Union — it has been gentrified…

I think it’s too soon to ask, now you never know with these things, long distance relationships can work, marriages can work too if you were dating for a few months and there’s people who date for years, then live together for years, then they get married and that last months.

Last week I posted about a new bonus structure at work that made me salty. On a whim I applied for two jobs on Sunday night, and I have an interview for one of them on Tuesday. I haven’t done this exact job before but I have lots of relevant experience, it’s a nonprofit so I would still be eligible for loan…

I found that the local holocaust center often has the best child-friendly resources.

Seconding Good Rx. I get great discounts through them.

On the other hand, it’s reassuring that someone who knows their stuff is looking out for people.

Can you pay cash? Check out GoodRX for coupons and see where it’s cheapest (you don’t need to be a member of Costco to use the pharmacy). Ask your doctor’s office to send the prescription to that pharmacy. They should be understanding, if it’s a controlled med like a stimulant or a benzo those are harder to get early.…

This is a tough one, but if it were me I just wouldn’t bring it up at all. Wait until you are more committed and you have been together longer. I mean you’ve been with the guy for 4 months. I know you’re in love and it’s such an amazing feeling, but who knows what 2 years apart will do for your relationship. If you…

Sometimes good things happen at work thread:

Hey everyone! I went to a yoga class this week that had live music and a wine tasting afterwards. It was fantastic, people were friendly, and The Bartender, good sport that he is, said he enjoyed it and was not opposed to further yoga adventures.

I’m so, so sorry. 

I don’t have a mom anymore. She died last Saturday morning after only two days in hospice. Over the past four months we made 7 trips to Houston (14 flights), 7 rental cars, 9 airbnbs...I worked so hard to get her top notch treatment and it just wasn’t enough. If you have a great mom - like I did - call her and tell…

They’re not adopting these babies. And they’ve no intention of helping support them. It’s an ideology of persecution.

After all that hand-wringing about Pizzagate, too...

What in the actual fuck is this fuckery? They were tracking menstrual cycles?

Yes and no. Obviously a lot of jobs can’t stay in America without harmful protectionist policies that interfere with free trade.

The most revealing moment came when a local man asked him about a Siemens factory in town that had shut down, and how he planned to keep those types of jobs in America.

The scenario you’re talking about is kind of what I’m afraid of at my office. A few top performers will probably get the bonus, but if they don’t they will have someone other than management to blame. And I’m just going to keep doing my job. I’m not working unpaid overtime to try to get a bonus that I’m not guaranteed…

True and awesome because now I am imagining wee French ponies saying things like, ‘Mon Dieu, I need zee carrots and zee sugar cubes after tonight.’

Once I was in Paris, Mont Martre to be precise, with a terrible ex and his terrible band. They’d finished a gig and we were all schlepping their shit to a taxi at around 2 am, having stopped for a burger on the way. We saw a load of tiny ponies wander wearily from an alleyway into the back of a pony-lorry. Having all…