Drusas

I think it’s mostly people like me who use voice to text. You have to tell it the punctuation verbally.

I used to do this with nauseous versus noxious.

I’m an American and the former looks much more natural.

Illegitimate/legitimate. Always struggled with that one until I got a phone that could tell me how to spell it.

ITT: People who think that never having learned to do some niche skill is a weakness.

Words have consequences.

I also live in Seattle.

I’ve got tiny hands and I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a Yukon potato that was fist-sized.

And I like his trolling of Trump because you know it gets under his skin.

As someone with cystic fibrosis, I’ve got the same problem but once a month. So much packaging. And then if you need a port for two weeks? Here’s your lifetime supply of materials.

I started training myself by asking people for the time. I don’t think that works so well now that everybody has a phone on them all of the time. I would also compliment people on something they were wearing, for example. Everybody loves that.

It’s easier to start with something small like that. Then once you’re comfortable asking and interacting with someone about that simple question, you can go for something more open ended.

We know! JFC.

Much like there has been no Dark Tower movie, there has also been no World War Z movie.

They don’t count.

The ending is different as well.

Idris Elba was the only good thing about that movie.

I saw Blazing Saddles in a linguistic anthropology class in undergrad. That was pretty great.

I also had an upper level Japanese class where the entire semester was based around watching and discussing Ikiru, which became an immediate favorite movie despite it being so much work to learn to watch it in Japanese.

Maruchan. Top Ramen noodles have an inferior consistency.

Sounds like I should get a bed pig.

Those of us in earthquake-prone regions (I stopped sleeping naked after I experienced “the big one” in 2011)

Any “work” she has done since July first should be annulled.