Hm. I expressed that concern to my gyno and she told me the opposite. I was trying to go off them and she was like, “Why? If you’re worried you’ll have an outbreak just keep taking them.” Been on them for pushing 4 years now and have yet to have an outbreak. If I get any prodrome symptoms I take an extra dose for a…

Is your wife on antivirals? You can take them continuously without complications and it can help keep the outbreaks at bay. 

Thank you. This idea that you should abstain from sex entirely because you can contract a very common virus that the majority of the world’s population has in some form or another does not help the stigma. Shit happens. It’s okay and it doesn’t make you dirty or bad if you get unlucky. 

I quit my job and got into advocacy work about 6 months ago and it is a double-edged sword. I’m incredibly proud of my employer and our mission but there is no turning it off anymore. You take your work home with you every night and when shit like this happens your actual livelihood is threatened.

Yes! Keep an eye on them in the oven cause the tomato can split and then just make sure you let them cool adequately. They stay too hot for too long. 

No chives only cause I don’t have them usually. Not that you asked for the recipe but here goes: I slice the tops off the tomatoes and scoop them out, reserving the inside and discarding the stem portion. Flip the tomatoes upside down on a cutting board to drain. I sauté onion, garlic, the tomato innards, random…

I like ricotta fine but cottage cheese in lasagna is the stuff. A friend in college made a 7-cheese mac including cottage cheese once. It would be impossible for me to digest now but at the time - yes.

We see you. 

Cottage cheese and peaches please 

I AM HERE FOR IT. I’ve been making cottage cheese stuffed tomatoes for the past two summers and y’all do NOT EVEN KNOW. Recently started adding hot Italian sausage to it my friends. 

Hey, can’t forget racially motivated gerrymandering being determined as allowable under the Voting Rights Act!

I worked at a bakery for a few years and offhandedly made a comment about killing sims to everyone’s horror. One other coworker admitted to fathering as many sims as possible in the neighborhood and immediately breaking up with the mothers. To each their own.

OK BUT DOES SHE WATCH VANDERPUMP RULES

I ugly cried and then made my boyfriend watch the episode as an excuse to ugly cry again.

That’s how the Joanna Explains segment came to be, actually! She explained Mother! to the office and everyone thought it was so endearing that they had her do these explainers for the oscar noms.

I NEED A JOANNA EXPLAINS MOTHER!

I’m firmly in the camp that it’s one of the beacons of anonymity on the Internet. We can come together to shed light on the darkness that might eclipse those around us. I’m so sorry that happened to you. Don’t stop sharing.

YAAAS. As a KS to MO transplant I am living for these gubernatorial ass-hats getting what they deserve. I know Brownback arguably got a promotion, but I like to think of him as fading into irrelevance and ending his political career by sidling up to 45 for a made up cabinet position.

Plenty of great ones too.

That’s a very good point. They had the best storyline they’ve had arguably ever and they let all that tea spill for free.