and Saturday night (maybe drunk?) GTers are probably the best people for advice.

God, it's the worst when someone asks "have you lost weight recently?" and sincerely means it as a compliment. A male friend of mine today said this to me and I can't even be mad at him because he's always super sincere, and I know that it wasn't a conscience attempt to neg me or anything. It just made me super…

Guys, I made a mistake yesterday and really over reacted to a conversation I was having with a friend, and then completely shut down. Now I think I need to apologize and I'm really nervous about it.

TW: inane, privileged, money

I'll preface this by apologizing, because I feel like I only post self-indulgent downer stuff on groupthink. Sorry :(

Here's the story:

So I've emerged from my usual lurking, because I am no longer calm on account of a fairly minor thing, and writing things out helps.

I'm freshly off the high of spending money at a wonderful wonderful book sale (one dolla each ya'll!) I found a bunch of super cool and useful books and only spent $15! My best find was an old illustrated edition of Bocaccio's Decameron.

I have a sort of job interview with the curator at a museum for a volunteer position tomorrow. We're meeting to "discuss the volunteer program", and even though it's not a real job and I even know the curator already I'm still super nervous. What if I say something dumb (it's not uncommon for me guys)?! Cute gifs…

And I am crying. This is really old, but I just came across it tonight, and thought I'd share it if any one else is as behind the times as me.

I have friend who is living in South Africa right now, and in her last message to me she mentioned that she's worried about what might happen when he eventually dies. I'm not familiar with the social/political situation there, so I'm just wondering if anyone around here has any good resources or articles about the…