Wait but so why is she still listening to him. It is time for an executive decision, and she should be used to making those, right?

Hiyooooo! (You took mine! Divorce five!)

Sleater-Kinney was a big part of my youth, too. I’m interested in the content of this book but I don’t think I can stomach her prose. I heard her Fresh Air interview and her speech felt so inauthentic- staggering through sentences as she reached for what she seemed to think was the NPR-est word possible. Like, it…

I’m sorry you know this. Love to you.

Internet classic, my friend. You are welcome.

That is neither in dispute nor particularly germane to the conversation.

Exactly. It’s a LOL-worthy political move to avoid saying “my party has gone apeshit and cannot get it together, and this is a suicide mission that nobody in their right mind would want.” WE ALL KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON PAUL. (And my question is- who wouldn’t understand it? People who want him to blow his savior wad on…

This is incredible.

It’s making me twitchy to see the contact name saved in all caps. Although I guess if Alec Baldwin is your dad maybe all caps makes sense.

As a native of St. Louis, it somehow blows my mind.

“Workers” is not the only thing wrong with this sentence. Notice that there’s no human agent involved in the “bringing”; they were “brought” by The Slave Trade. “Brought” is equally sanitized and disingenuous, when what we’re really talking about here is “kidnapped and sold into slavery.”

lol, pretty much (re: “good luck!”)—I’ve been trying to tweak via verbal descriptions and it is terrible. I do think I need to go back with a full set of “not this, not this, not this, THIS” pictures though.

I’m naturally a medium-dark brown; not trying to go strawberry blonde or anything but I’m trying to get to where it’s more coppery than auburn. I’ve liked the color they’ve done when it’s 3-4 weeks in and started to lighten, but.. :\ What was disappointing about your salon trips?

They definitely have the color, I’ve shown pictures (though not today; should’ve) and they’re not a conservative salon at all- it’s a cool place, it’s more like the colorists are being almost condescendingly restrained with what they’re using on me, I’m guessing because I generally don’t look like their…

I know. I have.

You should keep checking in here. But if you can bring yourself to do it, I really think from everything you’re saying that seeing a counselor could be important right now. Even if you go and talk about other things at first, things that feel safer. Having a person, “even if” it’s a professional person, can make such…

Aw, thank you! :)

Any fake redheads around tonight? How long did it take you to get the shade you wanted? I am.. four sessions in, I think, and both of the stylists I’ve worked with (the main one is on maternity leave) are frustratingly conservative and I keep ending up with colors that are not terrible, but not quite what I’m looking…

Commenting to say I read this. An internet rando hears you, and sends good thoughts. Is it a possibility for you to see a counselor there? To have someone live and right there that you can be honest with, and check in with regularly?