I’m not too worried about the filters. But when I toy around with Outlook on my iPhone it’s still .... odd ... to me. Does it still try and sort stuff for you?

I had LASIK a little less than a year ago and the best things were

I may have to switch to Outlook if Gmail ever pulls the plug on its older interface. I have good control over what content I get and I don’t need Gmail to figure out and sort what’s Promotional/Social etc etc. Just show me what I have, in the order in which it was received.

I know, right? This guy could probably make torts bearable.

I love this man so much and I will follow his banner anywhere.

IKR? Driving it out yourself sounds cool and easy in theory, but ...

80%? Nice! Well, long as you weren’t stressed out by not having your things.

I can understand these coming in handy, but 95% of my hotel travel is for work or vacation. If I treated those trips with this much precaution, my anxiety will kick in and I’d never sleep or enjoy vacation again.

Woo LASIK! Totally worth it. Had it done last year.

Baugh. In summer I work on my yearlong pale and video game backlog indoors. I prefer that to throngs of people.

Tried. Injured. Prefer shower.

This. The daily shower is the only thing that keeps my fine thin oily hair in check.

Thanks for the article. Saving for later. I’m planning to move from the Midwest to the West Coast by 2020 and at the moment the plan is to ship through U-Haul pods and drive out with the Mr. and the corgi.

Or make my emails reporting problems look super important and fake reassurance that everything’s going to be okay? : )

I wish my current gig let me run away offsite for even a little bit. Wrong area for it I reckon (smalltown Midwest)

Cool! Props to you, especially the dissertation!

Really I just yell at people and kick them into a bottomless pit. Who says project management isn’t fun?

I freaking love it. Highly recommended. The biggest message is that if you want to be a successful writer, you can’t just write YA fantasy and wait for the Big Novel to come by. You need to be willing to write anything for anyone, write often, and go out and look for paid writing work.

At the ones I frequent in town, I get gaggles of 7 college students collaborating on a project taking over three tables with their stuff, and almost all of them order only water. This drives me bonkers and now I know better, and now I meet folks only at sushi places because we always get a table.

John Scalzi has a book of essays about writing called “You’re Not Fooling Anyone By Taking Your Laptop to the Coffee Shop.” I love it and I want to buy my alma mater a thousand copies for all future writing majors and wish I had it when I went through it.