Japan! It looks so beautiful :) And also England because I’m a huge Beatles fan and would love to do all the Beatles-related tourist nonsense haha

What’s your favorite way to treat yourself?

I love spring too! Lifts me right out of the winter blues :)

I used to love tech, but I’ve fallen out of love with it. It used to be exciting and fun, but it’s all gotten so enshittified over the years. Plus, consumer electronics used to have exciting new features - every time you got a new phone it was a huge level up from the old one. Now it’s stabilized, and new phones are a slightly improved iteration of the old one. (Or slightly worsened, still salty about losing headphone jacks!)

What’s your favorite way to kill time?

No, I love the dark. Strange thing about me, when I’m stressed I seek out small dark spaces, usually inside a closet because there are no windows. I don’t know why but I’ve always been like that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What’s one luxury you’d love to have but would probably never buy even if you could afford it?

Pretty is a double-edged sword. Yeah I think there can be some advantages, but also sometimes you don’t want the advantages and then you’re stuck either accepting them or being rude when someone thinks they’re just trying to be nice to you. So you kinda go along to get along.

I experience life differently if I’m wearing makeup and contacts vs no makeup with glasses. When I wear makeup I can be really beautiful, and without, I can look kind of mousy, especially due to the glasses. And the difference in treatment is real, but I actually prefer the invisibility I get without makeup. With makeup, men are more chatty and ‘helpful’. They hold the door, they usher me in front of them if I’m getting in line at the store. Especially older men (60s+), so this might be generational to some extent. Men my age and younger men aren’t usually like this and I really appreciate that.

I know these are small examples but larger ones exist too - for example, I’ve read more conventionally attractive people have a better chance of getting hired and/or better pay. Which sucks if you’re not pretty, and also sucks if you are pretty and you wonder if (or people act like) you got your job because of your looks. And then part of me wonders if to some degree it’s attributable to the higher confidence that pretty people tend to project.

Sorry if these thoughts are jumbled, I just woke up. But this is an interesting subject!

Someone who interrupts! Can’t stand that. Also, someone who’s aggressively negative or likes to look down on everything.

What’s your least favorite thing about your favorite season?

Cleaning the basement gym - specifically the floor. I bought horse stall mats to go under the equipment and they’re great as flooring but they’re a bitch to clean.

What are you procrastinating on the most right now?

#800020 is one of my favorite reds too!

For eating, mahi mahi (flavor and texture) and salmon (lox, sushi, and health benefits). For looking at, fairy wrasse:

Aren’t they pretty!

What’s your favorite way to start the day?

I never thought I’d see the day where I agree with Fucker Carlson. Jesus.

Saaaame

Yorkshire Gold ☕️🤍

I booped all the greyhound snooooots 😍

I try to avoid going out at annoying times - e.g., rush hour, school zones, restaurants on a Friday or Saturday night. That helps a lot.

I Love You Period

They don’t make mustaches like that anymore.

I was always more partial to Tom Selleck.

Local government is great but we’re a pretty small township.

National government is fucked and can go fuck itself. Packed full of incompetent morons, sycophants, opportunists, grifters, and brainworms, and riddled with hate - racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, ableism, etc. It’s a smorgasbord of vile shitheads who never should’ve gotten anywhere near this much power.

Terrifyin’!

Late Gen X / early Millennial is called a Xennial. We’re characterized as having been born in a largely analog world and coming of age as consumer technology became more prevalent. I think it informally encompasses 1977-1983.

I was born in '81 and graduated high school in '99. I grew up hearing that I was Gen X, the slacker generation, the whatever generation, the generation where trying was uncool. And that’s exactly the experience I had. I was an adult before I ever heard the term ‘millennial’ and I don’t identify with it at all, though technically I’m on the cusp. Xennial does seem to fit though.

Doesn’t the baby already come covered in parmesan cheese?

Bottom right is extra cute, just looks a little confuzzled

Hecc yes I will!