My depression and anxiety have been acting up for the past week and a half and I just can't seem to shake 'em. I devote a lot of time and energy to trying to keep my mental state balanced and it sucks when the usual things don't help. Mostly because I just have to keep doing them until it eventually -does- work. Bleh.

Ahh, the early-mid 2000s: a blur of asymmetrical dyed black hair, polka dot shirts, pointy-toed flats, hairspray, and vodka. Everyone was terrible. The dancing was fun.

My late teens/early twenties were so terrible that I can only handle listening to 2000s dance-punk and the like when I'm in a very specific mood. If only the music wasn't so danged good, I could pretend it all never happened, ahaha

I…didn't know any of this because I stopped listening to My Chemical Romance when The Black Parade came out…is it worth checking out if I preferred their first two albums?

I am stifling a guffaw at work. It's mildly painful.

Are all of these 'women are crazy' jokes ironic, or have I wandered into a forum for Sitcom Dads?

I love making Excel spreadsheets for anything that doesn't involve formulae, which really kind of defeats its purpose. I just like organizing information, not making the information do anything.

I really hate poop subplots on any show. I just don't think poop is funny, but I know I am in a small minority on that.

I'm always prepared for Flaritza to be my fave, but then I remember how they mocked Suzanne after her meltdown at the Christmas pageant and that shit is Not Okay.

Yeah, Healy's whole story definitely shows the vital importance of self-awareness, humility, and empathy (in general, but especially in the helping professions). He wants to be "good" but fails to understand how his own prejudices, biases, and neuroses prevent him from ever doing so because surely the problem wouldn't…

I don't have a label maker at my office drone job. I do have a passive-aggressive makeshift label in the form of a folded and taped post-it with my name on it, though.

I Want To Believe.

I'm going to re-read Moby Dick, I think. It seems like a perfectly cromulent excuse to avoid finishing all the other books I have on the go.

Larry overtly exploited Piper's stay in prison - and her stories from it - to try to get writing gigs. He was blind to a lot of the moral problems in being opportunistic with other people's stories/background/illness/trauma (and the potential for endangering Piper in the process). It's not that he's necessarily bad,…

This show's outright refusal to label any ostensibly bisexual characters as such is so frustrating to me. I understand that lots of people identify as many different things and that prison is probably a place for a lot of sexual curiosity and confusion but hey! Bisexual people exist in AND out of prisons, and identify…

Yeah, I wouldn't want to see the character end up in Psych, but like…who approved this marriage request? Why was no one questioning her constant stream of new male visitors? I guess it proves a greater point about negligence/being a number, but damn, this could go sideways in a lot of ways.

I'm not loving how on the nose it is, but, hey, nice to have a Muslim character!

I've had mixed feelings about Morello ever since her flashback. It's worrisome that she seems to be protected by her friendliness and charm when she should probably/definitely be on someone's radar for how dangerous her mental health situation is. I cried at the wedding scene 'cause I'm a sap but like…is she just…

I read this headline as "Jenny Lewis" and was SO CONFUSED

Yoga Jones is one of my faves. I don't know if she'll ever get a flashback (since that monologue was both powerful and sufficient) but I'd dig one just for the heck of it.