Spicy gumbo. Red wine. Hunk of dark chocolate. (Six Mint Oreos in about 15 minutes, let’s be honest.)

8 years old, playing Hide and Seek. I’m ‘it,’ so I sit down on a firewood pile to count with my eyes covered. One of the logs has a bees nest in it and they make it clear they do not enjoy games. I start screaming and running back and forth across the yard alone, and my mom and the rest of the gathering all (briefly)…

Yeah, Ive gone down that black hole before, trying to find things I remembered reading in the campus library... Rudder and the Gaping Maw’s naughty sign language, basically.

Sure wish I could read Christian Rudder’s Stinky Meat and Stinky Feet columns on Jezebel. Such a great moment in internet history (for me, at least, in like 1999)

Well, it was a chorizo breakfast burrito, so coffee was the natural option. With 2%, obviously, but I’m out of brown sugar. : (

I am skeptical of the ease with which you admit this burrito hate. Is it a cover up for something else? Are you on Big Waffle’s payroll? I am going to write to the advertising team at Vox for their insight.

Unless you are enjoying a smores pop tart (obviously the best of the tarts) I wholeheartedly apologize for my oppressive actions.

If chorizo is wrong, I don’t want to be right!

I’d say it’ll be newsworthy, but we both know it won’t be worth the toilet paper it’s printed on.

EGR, I am irate that you, Jezebel and Gawker Media have refused to cover the breaking story about the delicious chorizo burrito and coffee I am having while I delay working. An unconscionable editorial decision and obvious evidence of poor journalism skills. What is Jezebel hiding?!?

Even more frustrating and interesting: When I was accountable to no one but a training spreadsheet leading up to my first ultra, I got to a point where I was on the trail so damn much, I lost the mindfulness benefit. Simply put... I was bored. I didn’t get the good feeling of a clear head because the prior 50, 60 or…

Starring in support (and for an awesome name)

Yup, you said several things that ring true for me, too. I was actually a shot put and disc “champ” (small high school - the bar was low) but I hated running anything that wasn’t a full out sprint. I didn’t or couldn’t understand or realize it until I hit my 30s, but you’re dead right: If your mind is working really…

Isn’t it funny how we both assume we’re doing it wrong, even though there’s basically no rules to do it right?

I must chime in to say that I quit my terrible, horrible, no good, very bad public service job and traveled off of my savings for about six weeks, then was fortunate to stumble into a very disorganized and unsteady job with my family’s business. I no longer have insurance paid for, and I don’t contribute to a…

Don’t all of us in the greys remember our most-starred comment?!? It’s so exciting to see a notification number above 3. I once said that Anna Merlan wrote a particularly wonderful sentence in a particularly wonderful article, and it got like 100 stars, but they were for her and not for me, so I felt shitty.

Guilty as charged!

RE: Anxiety

Hooray! That brings up a question I’ve had several times (I’m not bullshitting because of the timing, I’ve often wished I could post them to an open thread like this to see a decent number of replies, but couldn’t...)

Woah, you’re efficient! Thanks!