while caring for my son.
It helped me get into the right headspace to be a good parent and put the personal priorities first.
And it made me laugh. So much. And believe in a better tomorrow.
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I cannot tell you the uncomfortable silences I have trained myself to wait out as the men (and sometimes white women) all wait for me to naturally take notes. I can wait.
I just can’t get into this whole online dating world. Call me old-fashioned, but I’d rather meet someone buying the last pair of gloves at Bloomingdales, then we share a frozen hot chocolate and hope we come upon a book and a $5 bill with each other's phone numbers on it.
Velma struggling to find her glasses because she cannot see her glasses without her glasses is one of the most honest representations of real life in the history of fiction.
me: Wait. Jack Kerouac was gay?
coworker: Misian, what do you think he was doing on the road?
me: omg. Wait. I didn't know this.
coworker: It's okay. I didn't know Virginia Woolf was gay.
me: ..............we work at A Room of One's Own
coworker: ikr
Ask Again, Still No, the hot new book about my child "painting cars with paintbrushes and yogurt and then doing an indoor carwash in the living room with bubbles"
This Milwaukee Brewers game has everything. Yelich home runs. Pitcher ejections. Birthday boy home runs. Drunk people being heard too well on the TV Broadcast. A player named Mantiply for some reason. Giant meats racing for no prize.
Even if you're fully vaccinated, the CDC recommends not kicking a field goal on 4th and goal when you're down 8 with 2 minutes left in the NFC Championship game.
I do not understand being a product manager and desiring a narrow scope of operation.
I discuss 100 different topics in a day and I need to be conversant about them all. It is a job for generalists.
I'm puzzled when people ask me "how do you know about x". IT IS MY JOB.
you know the way temperatures are classified as 81 degrees BUT FEELS LIKE 92? i realized anxiety does the same thing. for example, today my life is fine but FEELS LIKE doom is a concept that lives in my throat
It’s impossible to keep up w/ the news in Palestine right now. Palestinians are literally being killed left & right. Al-Aqsa is burning while Israelis celebrate. Hundreds are injured. Sheikh Jarrah is still under attack. It’s 2am here but the night is far from over.
-- can you recommend a great comfort-blanket book? Something that is either super riveting that I can't put down OR something that is like a calming tea/perfect summer day.
Even if you’re fully vaccinated the CDC recommends being patient and generous with anyone who works in retail, customer service, or the food industry and continuing to tip generously as if we were still in a plague, bc we are.
The CDC now recommends curling up under a faux fur throw to read a brand new book you've been pining for, falling into a gentle nap an hour in while your tea goes cold and a spring-sweetened soft breeze blows in through the window