2.5 years sober and I relate to so much of this. Especially the shame and the bit about learning to see the strength in the struggle. I’ve been thinking similar things lately. I almost forget now that I used to be so gone, and that forgetting has triggered a revisiting of all those old shames. I try to remind myself…

Maybe it’s “7 for sure, 8 if my plan to sneak in doesn’t work”

The primary problem is that they didn’t hire a darker-skinned woman. Instead they hired a lighter-skinned woman and altered her to look darker, reinforcing problems in the industry where lighter-skinned people are given more opportunities.

I think it also needs to be said, as a person who was in a relationship for the first half of the pandemic and have been single for the second half: people living with partners need to understand that there is a mental health balance that is different when you don’t have a built in support network.

It sounds like a pretty big communication mismatch? What you’re describing, I would act a lot like your husband. I grew up in a house where I had to do a lot of deciphering of other people’s anger. And as an adult, I really don’t like to do that. Being around anger is already very stressful for me; to be asked to also…

Well maybe it’s my pandemic emotions but I got misty-eyed reading your vision of what your day would have been. I’m sorry you didn’t get to have that.

I hear where you’re coming from; my grandparents were poor landlords for a time ages ago and I understand it from that side. But this is about context. The tenant hasn’t paid rent because there’s a global pandemic that has upended the economy. And he didn’t say “Hey, protest headquarters at my house!” to the MoveOn…

Also it’s kinda telling? I say “Hmm, I don’t remember, but I’m sorry” when people tell me “Words, one time you were super drunk and a huge pain in the ass” because I used to do that all the time! If someone said, “Words, you said this horrible racist thing to me” I would fall out of my chair and BEG for forgiveness…

What did he lie about his first wife?

I saw a clip where he talked about taking the Daily Show role and how the team was surprised when he asked them if it would be worth it for him financially. He said he had to explain to them that he’s internationally famous and a daily show commitment would probably be a pay cut.

I was supposed to see him this March! 

Looking forward to reading this, thank you.

AGREED. Right when the drug trip started I said, “Oh, right. Cause the drug is called genre. That’s dumb.” And my boyfriend said, “The episode title is Genre.” And I said, “OH NO, it’ going to be THIS the whole time?”

That’s... not really what happened here. A global pandemic massively messing up the supply chain while also creating a universal surge in need is not something individual hospitals or even hospital chains could plan for. Not to mention all of the trade war stuff going on leading up to this particular moment. I agree…

I’m here too and will be fine financially (can work from home, too) but really bracing for the bottom to fall out of the economy. So many of the people I know are running out of money within the month.

I clicked on this because I thought the header image was Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson circa Dawson’s Creek and was so curious about how that was relevant to something. 

She was an absolutely stellar candidate and it is absolute nonsense that I find myself stuck choosing between two men who are too old for the job, too blinded by their own self interest to support anyone else, and too lackluster as candidates to make me confident in either a win or a successful term in office.

Does this apply to all genres? 

My read is that Ortberg equated pedophilia with homosexuality as well as gender dysphoria, so his take was that the parishioner was trying to get better but Lavery and his wife weren't, since they transitioned. "How can you understand someone trying to fight their immorality when you decided to embrace yours" type of…

Yeah, wow. The US population is around 330 hundred million, including minors. He’s spent 217 million. So I’m guessing that is nearly 1 mil per voting age adult. For one pointless campaign with no lasting effects. Head spins.