Legitimately, this feels straight out of the book I’m currently reading (listening to) “the Grace of Wild Things,” where orphan Grace who has a crow familiar is trying to find a witch to teach her how to be a witch.

Sometimes feeling like shit is insidious. It sneaks up on you and you may not even realize it, until you do something actually good for yourself (like getting a couple nights in a row of good rest, or committing to making healthy meals for a week or whatever) and then you realize how shitty you were feeling before. But it’s so easy to slip back into feeling shitty with bad habits! I say this from lots of experience…

I was a big fan growing up. Really liked Achtung Baby and of course Joshua Tree is a great album. I even liked Zooropa and Pop. Went to see them live in the 2000s but by then the shine was wearing off; I was getting older and being a fan of things wasn’t as important to my identity anymore. But I was curious recently, so I looked up when their partnership with Apple started… Yeah, it was exactly the time I stopped liking them as much. It was both validating and depressing to make that connection. I’d always nodded along when people talked about bands selling out, but U2 was my band and they weren’t supposed to do that! Now I feel like they’re the poster child of selling out.

Doesn’t go far enough for Schenker.

(But you’re right.)

This is niche, never expected to see a meme about Schenker of all people on a very generalized community. I dig it though.

I think so; that’s why we run the water.

I think the idea of “fairness” comes in that everyone has to do something, regardless of whether you use the seat or not. If you don’t use the seat, then you put the lid and seat down (presumably in one go). If you do use the seat, you put the lid down. Either way, you have to lift something before you use the toilet.

Personally I think toilets should just have their lids closed when not in use, regardless.

That’s a fair case. We don’t use one of our tubs and every once in a while we have to flush it with water because we get sewer smell. Unused bathroom facilities apparently cause problems.

This is very much not my genre so I’m not sure my suggestion is valid; maybe others can chime in if I’m way off base. But this year I read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and it felt pretty surreal to me.

This is not a problem I have. What happens when chapstick goes through the wash? Is it just the chapstick that gets ruined or does it mess up the clothes too?

Not at all. One of my kids only likes to watch the same thing over and over and over. I think it must be comforting in the same way that we like to listen to the same music over and over; we recognize what comes next and there is a comfort in having that power.

He has earbuds! But he doesn’t use them. Phooey

I was just getting annoyed at my husband for exactly this and your post was literally the next one in my feed. Felt like kismet.

Anyway YES it drives me crazy. He seems to love watching videos on his phone. I don’t get it at all.

Legit though, if I know I have to wait somewhere, having an ebook on my phone (via Libby) makes it way easier to ignore the internet.

Reading “The Will of the Many.” I see why people like it. I’m a little less than thrilled with the YA academy setting but the rest is pretty good.

Listening to “Gideon the Ninth.” I understand this one’s popularity less, but it’s okay enough to try and finish it to see if there’s something I’m missing. The narrator is great but there’s something about the writing style that leaves me feeling disconnected.

Also I didn’t realize that “The Will of the Many” was YA or close enough to it. I really should not try and consume two YA novels at the same time, as I’m not really all that fond of them typically.

“Speeding through”

Just the Kaladin parts of TWoK is probably the size of a normal non-Sanderson book, lol.

Puce?

Can attest. Dropped Facebook in like 2016 and am not on anything else aside from Lemmy. I constantly felt like I wasn’t measuring up to people’s perfect family pictures and exciting vacations, even though I knew intellectually that their pictures were posed and their lives were edited for social media. The world still sucks but at least I feel less inadequate.

Aw, it’s been a while, but I read it as a kid and then later as an adult and I felt it held up pretty well.

My brother does it to my mom specifically in crowds. He picked it as a scout during crowded meetings and it stuck. He’s in his 30s now.