From a Whamageddon point of view, that’s just a dirty trick for them to pull.

I really think the game should be *trying* to hear Last Christmas.

UGH YES.

I can't even word vomit that much without my internal editor/procrastinator distracting me. Though I've figured out some new ways to ignore the IE/P this past month.

At the drafting stage, all words are good words, it seems to me.

3.4K. WOW. I did 2.3K once and I thought my brain was going to melt. Nice job!

Only the people who've weaponized peace and "civility", sadly.

Why waste so much time and energy figuring out how to police people? knitting is a much more productive hobby.

YES. All of these things allow you to do the work you were always capable of. I had a student once, struggled all the way to her senior year of college, barely staying above C-level work. Getting meds flipped a switch for her. She's in med school now.

Those meds didn't teach her any biochemistry.

"In Democrat establishment, piano plays you."

Hoopla is letting me down. I'll have to wait til tomorrow to borrow it, I guess!

Which is probably okay, since I have 6 hours left on my current audiobook...

You're so welcome. I truly loved your book.

I need to read the other books in the trilogy (that's going to be a continuing theme in this thread), but I'm definitely looking forward to them and hopefully the new book she's working on (finished?) now.

Like the very best books, it's all of those things and the whole is so much greater than the sum of the parts. Mishell is one of my favorite accounts to follow because she brings the same honesty and humor and humanity to social media that were the most powerful things about this book for me.

I'm so glad I did. It's more than an honest portrayal of mental illness and disability. It's more than fae in the modern world. It's more than complicated love of Los Angeles and the film industry. It's more than found family.

2) Borderline, audiobook @mishellbaker.bsky.social. bookshop.org/p/books/bord...
I started following Mishell before I’d read her books. She started a thread about kisses in books from one of my replies and being a big fan of kisses in books (among other things!) I checked this out from the library.

Do we even have serve-and-volley players any more? I haven't watched quite enough tennis lately so maybe I've missed out, but I loved watching players like Edberg or Becker, if only for the variety of playstyles.

I've had this feeling about basketball, at least at the NBA level. It feels to me like they've optimized the game into a state where it's no longer interesting as a sport, only interesting in how individuals perform.