In June 2022, I applied for the job that I’ve held for some time now.

Roughly a week after I submitted my application, I got a call offering me an interview, and the interview slot itself was about a week after the call, so about two weeks after the date I applied.

During the week leading up to the interview, I had a very vivid dream in which I woke up somewhere out in the countryside in Ukraine, as a foreign volunteer fighting for Ukraine.

I wasn’t worried about seeing combat or getting hurt or dying. I was primarily worried that I was going to miss out on my job interview.

I’ve tried atomoxetine and welbutrin to no effect. Your results may vary.

I know. I’m slacking off. My bad.

A fifth of vodka, a loaded & unregistered pistol, a crack pipe, and a photo album of me walking by adorable dogs and not stopping to offer pets.

Richard Head

The drag mark on the upper left of the canvas did it for me too

Old reddit or no reddit

A little league homer might be possible, but neither a traditional homer nor an inside the park homer could happen off a bunt.

I worked as a bagger at a grocery store, started at $5.65 per hour.

If it’s a domestic destination, I have plenty of time, and I have one or two other people I like to split the driving with me, I’ll take the road trip.

Otherwise I’ll fly first class.

They forgot the grabber claw

Spitballing here but I suspect a lot of things are owned by a family trust instead of specific people.

Executive dysfunction broccoli

Sick humans tend to be warmer than usual, and cats love sitting on warm things that don’t move much.

Yep. I’m not the type to get tattoos but if I was I could do a whooooole lot worse than visiting the tattoo artist who did this one.

This is a good example of horrible taste but pretty good execution

The one and only upside I can see to a foldable phone is that it might finally be able to thwart my shitty superpower of always being able to accidentally unlock my phone in my pocket and pocket dial people or pocket open apps or pocket close browser tabs.

In no particular order, I blame the GoT writers, showrunners, producers, and GRRM.

The cast and other crew hold no culpability whatsoever in the situation.

And yeah I can understand being sore at being the subject of a million memes about “Ah dun wunnit, she’s mah kween”

But it’s not Kit’s fault that GRRM couldn’t keep up the pace with the source material, or that the producers tried shoe-horning ten or twelve episodes of plot points into a final season of six episodes.

The horrors persist, but so do I.

Also, Al Swearingen had a relevant line in Deadwood

Pain or damage don’t end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

Clearly this isn’t the healthiest way of coping with things, but sometimes I’m not in the right frame of mind to process stuff optimally, and so I think of lines like this one.

I don’t think Mary Sue or Gary Stu characters are intrinsically bad. Provided that the work is honest about it.

I prefer characters who have realistic strengths and weaknesses, and who face credible tests in the plot, which they aren’t guaranteed to pass. I like characters who fail from time to time.

I do sometimes want some escapism and such, so I’m glad Mary Sue and Gary Stu types still exist.