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#18727 Jun 2022On Friday after I heard the news, I rage-cried in a meeting. Our modern world afforded me this luxury: I turned off my camera and microphone and let it happen. I mourned the loss of my rights while th... -
#18623 Jun 2022 • 1 0This week I went to an “offsite” meeting for work. Offsite is in scare quotes because while I had to travel to a hotel and sit around a conference table in a room that smelled like Legionnaire’s Disea...
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#18515 Jun 2022SOME PERSONAL NEWS It is with some relief that I hit the GET ME OFF THIS THING button on my half-hearted job search, I am staying put for now. I’d like to thank: The company that interviewed me five t...
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#18406 Jun 2022I am back on my bullshit w/r/t Call the Midwife which is proving to be WILD this season: In this particular edition of No-Context Call the Midwife, I expect you are grateful to not have the context. M...
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#18327 May 2022 • 1 0CW: *gestures expansively* I turned off the New York Times news alerts on my phone a while ago. For one thing, I was never seeing the update I wanted (Trump impeached, Trump run out of town on rail, I...
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#18220 May 2022Okay! The weather has warmed. Last week, we were in a sweet spot of 80-degree days and 60-degree nights. I took a walk one morning (for my stupid health) and it was just delightful. A couple of EXCITI...
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#18105 May 2022I think the thing I’ve identified with the most since Monday night is Jessica Valenti’s newsletter, where she describes the imminent demise of legal abortion as “humiliating.” It’s humiliating for peo...
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#18029 Apr 2022 • 1 0A SNACK FOOD Take a pretzel (any shape) Dip it in a small bit of cream cheese Dip it in a little pile of everything bagel seasoning Enjoy A BOOK REVIEW I recently read Verity, a “romantic” “thriller” ...
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#17921 Apr 2022 • 1 0Yesterday, I took an extremely hot shower, the kind where you just continue to stand under the water for a long time after you are clean. I like a shower that is, in my husband’s parlance, “hot enough...
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#17801 Apr 2022One of the foods I most closely associate with Early Pandemic is Nature Valley's sweet and salty peanut bars. This time two years ago I ordered them repeatedly from Target, along with cleaning supplie...
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