Category — Microblog Mondays

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A recent Carolyn Hax column made me pause, and I was curious what you thought. That, by the way, is a gift link.

The situation: a woman laments two friends who have changed profoundly — both in actuality and expressed through their postings online. Carolyn’s advice is to choose a different medium to connect with them if they want the person in their life but don’t want to be distressed by what they post. “Connect using the least conspiracy-, peculiarity- and lunacy-friendly communications medium.”

Yes, there is always the choice to remove someone from your life, but there are many reasons why someone would not. The question asker wanted to know how to keep these people in their life and minimize their emotional impact, which sounds a bit impossible, though Carolyn’s advice certainly feels like maybe the only possible path forward.

What do you think of her advice?

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I was this many days old when I learned about skants. A pants/skirt hybrid kind of sounds perfect for those of us who do not enjoy skirts but sometimes need to wear skirts.

I have also had a deep wish that stylish aprons would come into fashion. Not a flimsy kitchen apron, but a sturdy apron with lots of pockets that you tie on in the morning like Carmy wears in The Bear. And I wish everyone wore aprons so it wouldn’t look odd if one of us wore an apron.

These are the two fashion choices I’d push if I ruled the fashion world.

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I recently started a new notebook (why do I count my life in notebooks?), and I added a new section to the lists I copy over each time: A re-watching and re-reading list.

It’s not that I don’t know what I like to re-watch or re-read, but seeing it listed out feels like a place I can turn when I am feeling out of sorts and need to remember that there is art that makes me feel better. So the Magician’s trilogy is on there. Thursday Murder Club books. Horowitz and Hawthorne books. Eight Ramona Quimbys. (What? It makes me feel good.) One Day and Us by David Nicholls.

I don’t even need to re-read the whole book. I just need to spend an hour with the characters or setting.

What is on your re-read/re-watch list?

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Tomorrow is election day in the US, but we voted weeks ago when early voting started. We usually wait until election day and go to our local polling place, but this year, we went to early voting when it opened. My Tuesdays are full of meetings, and I didn’t want to try to time it between two and get stuck in line. But I’m also fairly nervous, and voting early meant I could try to give myself the day to not think about what was happening at the polls.

If you’ve voted early, thank you.

If you haven’t voted yet, please go tomorrow. A lot of domestic policy rides on this election, and every vote counts.

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The Wolvog introduced me to the game Balatro. It’s a roguelike card game, played on the surface like poker. But the various additional cards — jokers, planet cards, etc — increase the impact of the played hand. So you’re taking chances in multiple ways: the hand you play, the booster packs you purchase, the blinds you skip. Even the order of the jokers makes a difference. It became enormous fun once he taught me how to play and explained all of the cards. (I still need to text him when the game unlocks a new one to understand what it means.)

But the thing I love most of all is that when I play, it turns off all notifications and alerts. I don’t see news alerts come in. For thirty minutes or so, I can lose myself in the game and not think about the election or the state of the world. It’s hard to convince myself not to check the news when I can access other apps, but I love that this one gently tells me to shut it all out and turn off my brain for thirty minutes.

Thanks, Balatro.

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