Tips for Tension! How Do You Get Through Yucky Meetings?

This just came up in a comment, and it’s something I struggle with to, and I thought “let’s pool resources!” Because this is definitely a universal, everyone has those things you dread whether it is a meeting with your boss or a dentist appointment, and we waste so much energy worrying in advance and after for no reason.

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Monday Morning Questions: What Do You Want to Ask Me the Week I Go ON VACATION????

I am SO excited! I am going to a place that is not-home to do things that are not-work for 4 whole days! Oh, and also a place that is not-winter. I got a hotel room with a balcony across the street from a park, and I’m planning to go straight from the airport to a Barnes and Noble and load up on books. And that’s it, that’s the extent of my vacation planning. Park, balcony, books, sunshine. And NOT packing my laptop so I won’t even be tempted to work. Although I am hoping to write some blog posts either on my phone or on a library computer or something.

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Thinky Post: Should Mothers Be Held to a Different Standard?

Netflix is releasing an Indira Mukerjea documentary, the Lori Vallow and Ruby Franke stories are still big news in America, and so far as I can tell from looking at international true crime, anything involving a mother harming her child for her own gain is big news everywhere. Why is that? And is that justified?

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Weekend WatchAlong: 8am Chicago Time, Thank You For Coming! Raunchy Female Friendship Comedy!

Happy Saturday! I got to sleep allllllllllllll the way to 8am today. And now I get to watch this lovely thing with you lovely people, and drive around doing errands, and then come home and have dinner with The Upstairs People. Oh, and if everyone ends up being too busy to come, I will give it 15 minutes for someone to join and then quit posting comments.

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