This guys reminds me of an ultra-athlete I dated in college. Dude was so disordered in his “health” habits. He taught me how to make myself vomit after overindulging in food or drink, and would suggest we do it together at the end of the night. I wish I could say I left him immediately. I was 19 and it took me…

As an American who is actively trying to find employment in another country, I hear this 100%. I get sad, but not angry when I’m constantly rejected, even though I have in-demand and marketable skills. The anger would come from a place of feeling like I DESERVE to be hired abroad, and money spent to help me move there…

What a walk down memory lane — it seems so recent but so long ago! I was a diehard True Blood viewer. My friends would even get me True Blood swag as gifts, like a set of pint glasses brand with Merlotte’s, Fangtasia, and Bon Temps, LA logos. We had a blood-themed part for the series finale.

Probably similar to a German!

My family is German, so I was pronouncing it with a German umlaut in my head, then ended up googling the real pronunciation. There I also learned that the founder’s family was Dutch, hence the umlaut. Interesting!

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Columbine will be 22 years ago this April... it happened in 1999. I remember that day for two reasons: The senseless horror, and a kid in my high school had been threatening me, leaving crazy violent notes in my locker, and pointing finger guns at me in threatening ways in the hallway and during class. Every adult I…

Yep. My campus canceled spring break to hopefully prevent students from traveling. But with hybrid learning where students can join a live class virtually, they are skirting the rules and Zooming into class from their vacation hotel rooms. This means there’s an unmeasurable flow of students leaving and coming back to…

Oh no! :( Very sad.

Covid/isolation brain. I just got choked up at this video because it has people in a room moving their bodies and having fun together...

Why are YOU dragging this on? Didn’t you post this exact quote on another article about Jolie and Pitt? What do you get out of being rude toward someone sharing that they are a survivor of domestic violence? An adult child has testified. There’s much more to this than you or I will ever know about, and I would hope…

Oh I’m enjoying it! I meant not fair his sudden aging makes him look hotter and I look closer and closer to an extra in Hocus Pocus.

Including the top comment above...

A year of covid stress has aged my spouse and me both significantly. I went from baby smooth skin to deep crows feet and untamable gray hairs sticking all ways from my head. I’m leaning into it and trying not to pay it much mind.

This was something I worried about leading up to the 2016 election as well. That we’d see the first woman President and the first woman President’s assassination. I hate that, as a woman, I breathed one small sigh of relief that the fucked up 2016 results meant that at least the latter wouldn’t happen (yet). Working…

I used to be a “the more the merrier!” type of person. A casual happy hour after work would end up with 20 people and I was a social butterfly working that room. We’d host huge gatherings at our house for 10-20 people several times a year. Now I’m ready to leave a social distanced outdoor hang with one other couple…

Better than my neighbor who strategically times it for when we’re relaxing outside. Good ole Bill just cranks up that leaf blower to 11 a few minutes after we spread out on the patio with lemonade and sunglasses. He never leaves, so we can’t time our relaxation around him.

Is there stuff you liked to do before the pandemic that you’re worried about once you phase back into the world?

Hi Jezzies! Yesterday marked 10 — TEN! — weeks since my last drink. Since I posted about it 2 weeks ago on SNS, the icy midwest tundra has started to melt and there are more opportunities for outdoor distance hangs on friends’ patios.

Thanks for that perspective. I think back on it, and it’s tough to remember clearly because the friendship was 8-15 years ago, but I think it took on a flavor of toxicity in that I was judgmental and rude about her lifestyle choice 97% of the time. We’d have fun together and could talk about other things, which is how…