Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Shrinky dink, I have an unfounded suspicion that more retired writers are inactive/no longer Mormon but don't participate in alumni week. It feels like a pretty specific time period shows up. Yeah, almost all my closest friends are Millennial Apostates. Few of them are as engaged with the Church or...

I just listened to the soundtrack for Dear Evan Hansen, and I think it treats the topic of Teenage Mental Health ™️ with sensitivity.

But it kind of looks like you and your husband :P

Yeah, so I got recruited to a dream program starting this fall but my brain has decided that my ex is still sleeping with me but also meeting some chick in San Francisco is the more salient issue.

And saying that makes me feel even worse. Like, I really am that much of a doormat.

Also it's delightful that my childhood best friend lives so close. I'm gonna miss SLC

Lots of things. I had Warsaw Mules (with Zabrowka) at this Polish bar in Santa Monica. Had Mezcal poorly mansplained to me by a drunk guy at a 30th birthday party which made me feel like Nick Carraway. Actually had Mezcal at my BFF's tonight and let him mansplain it to me. :P it was good. Saw it on ...

My sister was an infant on 9/11 and can drive.

Cogs stop doing this it just makes me feel old when Zed doesn't get it.

If it lasts four years is that diagnosable you think? Heh.

Guys, my dad thought I lived in Vermont not Wisconsin and if I ever get a vanity project HBO show, that detail is going in. Nevertheless, we actually had a valuable heart-to-heart talking about both my garbage love triangle that exploded in Q1 and my aspirations for graduate school. Turns out he hat...

My grandfather was a straight, white, middle-class male who killed himself. YMMV!

ETA: I'm in a very irritable part of my cycle and shouldn't get into this. Carry on and ignore me.

Do you mean "dualist" in the philosophical sense or a different one?

TheBlackSheep wrote:Yeah, a lot of psychologists and sociologists study this kind of thing. Someday if I find time I'll write you up some of it.

Awesome, thanks! If you're participating in reunion, maybe I'll ask the question then. :-)

Zedability wrote:Official petition to rename the Board Comment Board the "Kosher Boardboard". All in favor, say aye. ;)

:-D

Shout-out to the kosher board board for leading me to this Tinder question . haha it's the worst Fun fact, Tinder now auto-sorts your photos based on those which its creepy algorithm finds the most attractive. I don't wear makeup that often and my weight naturally varies in an 8-ish pound rage over ...

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/03/30/521958505/only-in-sweden-hundreds-of-refugee-children-gave-up-on-life So doctors are primed to think about how social conditions can affect health. And I think culture shapes the way we express our despair. Once a particular set of symptoms becomes...

This question made me :-\. Being that disillusioned at ~23 and defining oneself by one's prettiness, combined with the Nice Guy Syndrome questions, make me feel gross. Why not just live life and let it happen? Oh wait, maybe because women HAVE NO AGENCY IN THIS SYSTEM

Finished Big Little Lies last night. It was amazing. All the Emmys for Nicole Kidman.

A throwback from Jan 2008. Fun times.

https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/42380/

There's even an important scene from April 2, 2007. First mortgage lender going bust. I was just thinking about flying to Paris later that month!

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Tomorrow is Portia's 10-year-iverssary of being on the Board board, I just noticed in my monthly lurk.

Seems appropriate that I'm watching The Big Short, which takes place in Q2 of 2007. Hooray for being A Screwed Generation!