I’ve had to adopt the benedryl route during pandemic. I don’t like it, but it’s the only thing that currently works. 

They are lovely little furry potatoes, but they are about 75% poop by volume. Luckily it comes out as pellets, so you can sweep it up with a small dust pan. They are also coprophagic, so they eat some of their own poop for proper gut health.

I always figured it was a soybean. 

This shit is like perpetually living inside the first 30 seconds of a commercial for a depression medication.

Round birb. 

Guinea pigs have entered the poo chat. 

To be be a goose apologist, almost every kid I’ve had to save from geese at work, the kid started the fight by being a general pain in the ass to the geese just geesing.  It’s just that child vs. goose is essentially like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

Before this I’d been having a reoccurring dream about having not worked at all on an end of term English paper that was due, despite knowing about it all semester.

I am also one of those people who cannot deal with things not being in their proper places (it’s so stressful!) and reading this made my heart rate go up. 

I’ve had absolutely bonkers dreams since I started taking melatonin a few years ago, but the pandemic has really made them more vivd and long. I’ve only had one that really had to do with the pandemic, where in my boyfriend’s brother had an immense, giant, Crazy Rich Asians level wedding and party and I was flipping…

I will raise you the spine in ‘books by the yard’ books in Kelly Clarkson’s ‘french farmhouse’ house.

The characters skew older (the youngest main character is still college aged, but less teenagery than the ones in Normal People) and I think that’s why I enjoyed it more, as well as the interaction between the older adults and the college students. They are still most certainly messy people, but I guess since since…

I am also disappointed that it seems they translated all of the intimacy into just sex. Rooney writes sex really well, but the thing that makes it powerful is all of the rest of of the intimacy, or what these characters think is intimacy, that is woven around it. And much of it comes from those conversation bits—the…

That’s awesome. 

There are a decent number of occupations that women could not/were not allowed to do more recently than surgery that have manage more gender parity (women could not be Federal park rangers until 1978!).

My dog thought that having his humans home 24/7 was the best thing, but now he things it’s the best thing, with caveats. We’re really interrupting his napping schedule by being home between 7am and 11am, his prime, deep napping time.

The pressure to be involved with the cosmetic end seems so intense. I had to have sinus surgery a bit of a while ago and went to an ENT to see about it and the first one I went to was like ‘well, we can fix your problem so you aren’t in horrible infected pain all the time, but while we’re in there we can also take…

Yeah, it’s difficult to parse out the numbers based on gender for those who are strictly elective plastic surgeons vs. those who are working to do things like fixing skin grafts or burn wounds or issues after accidents. The numbers seem to be about 20% of plastic surgeons are women, but it’d be interesting to see if…

Absolutely!

I could get the info for MDs generally, but it was more difficult for plastics.