I just binge-listened to all 13 episodes of the podcast. I was the one shouting NO NO NO in traffic upon hearing this was the last episode of the season. Thanks for making me feel a little bit less like I’m from some alien planet, Jolie. [FYI, for your demographics, I’m not an old man!]

There is a huge gulf between “notice” and “care”. I dated a guy with hypospadia: believe me, I sure as hell noticed.

Oh, I had the smoking dreams. Vivid. Always the same: I was smoking and them remembered that I had quit...and was full of shame and guilt.

Interestingly enough, a friend who is 8-months sober has the same dreams about alcohol.

Method: Cold Turkey

When I cast the screen-version in my head many many moons ago, I had Maria Bello as Tulip. Unfortunately, she has aged out of the role.

I'm resigned to it as well.

In the last few months, it's been The Circle.

Good Omens. Oh hell yes.

I make spaghetti squash all the time. I can't wait to try this.

People think I'm crazy, but I saved one huge pair work trousers - the only decent article of "fat clothes" I owned. I take them out every now and then and remind myself how unhappy I was when I was out of control with my habits.

The screen shot is not terribly impressive, but for my local weather (Washington, DC), nobody beats Capital Weather Gang.

Amazing.

Oh. My. God.

It's a good litmus test for who actually cares about you.

Plunking in my own numbers, seems to me that this method breaks down when talking about smaller people? I'm 5'2" and 10-20 pounds overweight. But working with the calculator, the margin of calories between current weight and goal weight isn't all that great.

I'd like non-pharmaceutical interventions for mental health and related issues. For me, a device that you can put on your forehead that can sync your brainwaves so you go directly into delta-wave sleep.

Where to find season 2? I had streaming BBCA, but it went off of there right around the same time I lost access to it.

I have wanted to love Pope Francis unreservedly for the ways in which he is a radically good guy, doing good works. But this issue has always bothered me. He has the power to call off the dogs on this matter, and those damned dogs should have been called off.

Yeah, that's kind of what I mean by STFU - make a conscious effort to _not_ dominate the conversation.

As a white woman who identifies as a feminist, I have struggled with the question of "so what do I do now?" Because, well, yeah, it's kind of perplexing to figure out how to behave when you're the problem.