Thank you! Yours is making me hungry for delicious pasta :D

Oh, that sounds traumatic. Sometimes I think our “lizard” brains force visceral responses like that as a protective mechanism, if that makes sense. It sounds like you have had a difficult year. Have you found support or a therapist you like?  

I was circling the bait at “raw silk”, hooked and on the line at “pockets”.

You made your sister’s wedding dress?! That’s so cool!!! Do you have any pics you’d be willing to share?

Oh, nice! A relapse doesn’t un-do all the time you have clean—like you said, you’ll get back on the proverbial wagon and your journey will continue. I can’t fathom lifelong sobriety (one of the things I like about SMART was it only asked for 3 months; doable). I used to think about it a lot, and it felt very…

Hey! *hugs* Above everything else, I want you to know that you have not wrecked your life. When you look back in a few years, this will seem like a shitty, awful detour you took—but in no way does it define who you are as a person.

I can’t articulate the emotion this piece evoked. I read it with clenched teeth. It made me hypersalivate, the way you do before vomiting. A scream roiled deep in me, lost energy; turned into a sob, lost more energy still and never escaped my mouth.

Boost! The first woman to win the “Nobel Prize for Maths” deserves our recognition. Prof Mirzakhani was brilliant and so young; hopefully Jez honors her memory with an article. BBC link in the meantime:

I’ve always dressed somewhere on the spectrum between “poor bohemian artist” and “all black, for simplicity”. So make of that what you will. The most embarrassing outfits I’ve ever worn were on a 3 day trip to NYC (my first!) to celebrate my graduation. I’d seen SATC so I was prettttty sure I could fit in seamlessly…

Oh, Emma! You too?! Jez has been a sanity life raft for me (and surely many, MANY others). You’ve done a wonderful job these past 3 years. So much batshit insane stuff has happened out in the world, but y’all continue to put up articles I want to read everyday. Thank you for your work here, and best of luck in…

*shrugs, tosses football*

Amen to that. I *despise* the GOP’s co-opting opiate abuse as their pet “issue”. The only real solve (so to speak) is harm reduction coupled with long term dual mental health/substance abuse counseling. But they’re stripping funding for all of those necessary programs. They’ll focus instead on costly raids, arrests…

Please let this mean a weekly recap feature and also

Louie Anderson as Christine on Baskets is one of the most delightful characters on television. I just fell in love with her! I became so invested in her life; cried and happy-cried along with her story arc, just completely forgot she was fictional.

Oh shit, my bad! I should have clarified—that guy is only right in the “Not Treason” part. I am dumb, my apologies! :D

As much as I hate to admit this, that guy is right—it isn’t treason. It’s not treason because we’re not actively at war with Russia. Helpful Vox article another commenter linked yesterday: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/11/15953854/donald-trump-jr-treason-no

Late teens was Sublime and anything else the guys I got weed, etc. from were into. Past me hoovered up some free drugs, so that was a win! But present me remembers the lyrics to an OAR song, and that makes me want to knife myself.

But Tori Amos’s Crucify works so well for singing out teen girl angst!!!!! I mean...

*raises hand* I 100% always thought these were made up by the magazine.

OMG!!! All this time I have been commenting alongside cinematic royalty?!