The trick in cities is to know things and people.

Know the guy with the swimming pool.

Know the woman who runs yoga in the park every Thursday.

Know when the museums have free or discounted events for the locals.

Know where the buck-a-slice pizza joint is - the one two blocks from your apartment that’s almost tucked into an alley at the bottom of a brownstone’s side stairs, and that most people would just walk past without noticing.

Cities have lots of free and cheap things, you just need to be a local to find a lot of them.

When you peel them and boil the skin, it makes a great broth?

Look at that guy! He has his own eraser but he was using her to do it for him? What a jerk.

Just because America is the worst doesn’t mean you need to compare everyone to us.

Yeah bro?

Your mom really gets around.

Yoursgrub

What?

“tidy” doesn’t make sense.

They’re literally tight.

As long as you’re talking to a specialist and working on improving! That’s what matters. :)

People say that because they want to be nice. But it’s hard for people to understand when someone thinks and feels significantly differently than they do.

So it might be useful to think of it as, “this person hopes I have a positive experience.” They say it in a way that makes sense to them, and they don’t realize that you think of things differently.

So when they say “do something you like,” think of it as them saying “I hope you do something that makes you feel good.” You may not “like” things the way most people do, but you can still feel good about things - even if it’s an intellectual “this is positive,” as opposed to an emotional “I’m doing something that makes me feel happy.”

Just because they post one funny picture doesn’t mean their cat regularly eats that stuff.

It also doesn’t mean their cat was actually eating it.

Bullets don’t have points, typically. But they travel quickly enough that it doesn’t matter.

It would also be interesting if she doesn’t quite “get” gender in general.

Like, if she meets a stereotypical dudebro who most folks would think is obviously presenting male, she’d ask him his pronouns. And if someone said to her he’s obviously a guy, she wouldn’t understand why they assume that.

Not trying to write your story for you, it’s just something that came to mind after I replied. :)

I’d “headcanon” her to generally ignore genders altogether, but to use “female” (with no other context) more out of convenience than out of a desire to be seen in some way.

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Wet-bottom pies, they make the rockin’ world go round.

You just need smaller loaves, is all.

Sliced bread. There are LOTS of better things.

My SSD from 2009 still reports having most of its life left. I used it heavily for around a decade before retiring it as my system drive.

You’ll be fine. A quality SSD is very unlikely to “wear out” from standard use.