This thread is going bananas so I need to mute. But first I want to add stuff about my mom so she's not just poor and sick in your imagination. She was very funny. A great cook. Read a book a week. Tough as hell. Loved me more than physics might suggest is possible.
I’m somewhat loath to get so personal but I feel like I need to tell this story. My mother died in December 2020 with what I believed at the time to be $40k in student loan debt.
It's only a matter of time before 'The You You Are' is published for fans of #Severance, and I will absolutely have it displayed on my shelf during work calls.
To people who are confused about why we all want to work from home, I give you Exhibit A: It's lunchtime & right now I'm watching TV while cleaning my Roomba. <case closed>
my toxic trait is talking to anyone & everyone about this catherine the great biography i'm reading but literally no one cares about 18th century russia😭😭😭
@katiefhurley YES! I recommend this book. The author points out how eye contact isn't an inherent human behavior or a prerequisite for learning, as demonstrated by how some cultures avoid eye contact. amazon.com/Uniquely-Human…
A long time ago a kid said to me that it’s easier to talk without making eye contact, and I still think about that a lot. We place such importance on eye contact, but we really need to meet people where they are and work together to communicate.
*whispers* Glasses are a disability aid. They've just been normalized so people don't generally think of them as such. Now, imagine if all other disability aids were just as destigmatized and normalized.
Is it omicron or delta or your period or a cold or flu or allergies or anxiety or long covid or perimenopause or food poisoning or migraine or a tumor (“it’s not a tumor”) or PTSD or parenting is just so hard lolol or too much sitting and screen time and stress or IS IT COVID or