On Coworking From Afar
@elizabeast my aim screenname is going to be 10 years old next year too, which is kind of mindblowing.
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On Coworking From Afar
Do other people still use aim? I use it to talk to my two bffs (since one of them lives on the east coast and one of them lies in the west coast and I live smack dab in the middle so I never get to see either of them) basically every day, but I always feel kind of dumb admitting that to other people, because I get the impression that it's kind of uncool? I have this feeling that everyone else uses gchat and they're all gchatting away without me, but aim is just more practical because I don't have to worry about accidentally closing the tab or missing an im because I have too many windows open or whatever. Am I just uncool?
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On Friday Open Thread
@Daisy Razor Birchbox question: I want to sign up for it, kind of, but can you specify what kind of stuff you want to get? I don't wear nail polish or perfume, and I'm afraid of getting stuff I'm not going to ever use all the time.
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On Text Me Possibly
@Decca My best friend and I would host a talk show over the phone where we would interview famous people (except they usually weren't actually famous people, they were anime characters and actors who had been in Rent).
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On Ask a Clean Person: Laundry School Is In Session!
I will never ever forget my second week of college, when my best friend called me and left me the following message: "You know how sometimes in cartoons someone will be doing laundry and the entire thing will overload with bubbles and they'll come out of the top all dramatic? It turns out that's a real thing."
(A few years later I visited him and stayed in his dorm room for a weekend, and there was only one item of clean clothing hanging in his closet, and that was a suit. I assumed that he was so traumatized by that first laundry experience that he just never did it again. Boys are gross.)
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On I Have That: Snatiation
@jaimie I read in Oprah's magazine (it was in the breakroom at work, shut up) that this is totally a normal thing! There's some nerve or something up there that's connected to your nose somehow. I think she said (it clearly wasn't actually Oprah giving this advice, but whatever) that if you press down on your eyebrow while you're doing it, it will help?
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On [Maybe] Good Books That Defined You
@The Everpresent Wordsnatcher Harry Potter first hit in the US when I was 12 (not to brag, but I started reading it before anyone else that I knew and before any of the other books were released), and my copy of Sorcerer's Stone is SO beat up, because I carried it around with me EVERYWHERE that year. The spine is completely warped, there's a huge water stain on the front cover, and there are food stains on random pages. It is the definition of well-loved.
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On Friday Open Thread
@The Kendragon Right? I don't know how familiar you are with Northeast El Paso, but it is the CLASSIEST of the classy. If you are familiar with it, you should not be at all surprised.
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On Apropos of Nada
Carolita, please please write a book, just so I can buy 100 copies and give them to everyone I know for every Christmas and birthday for the next few years.
Also, I really want a dog named Lulu now. Lulu!