On Ask Polly: Should I Make The First Move On My Dream Girl?
@Niko Bellic well said.
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On Ask Polly: Should I Make The First Move On My Dream Girl?
@Reginal T. Squirge I'm not the LW (after more than one feature on the Awl network people might actually let me know what they REALLY think of me) but I'm basically a chubbier him with intractable PTSD, and if I were the recipient of this response being called a "human void" would cut pretty deep.
However if you're writing in to Polly I would imagine you're expecting advice that doesn't pad its knuckles. Yes, it's not terribly helpful, but it is true. We know it's true. At some point, it will go from theory to practice. On top of the Steubenville developments (a more welcome horror than the alternative outcome, but a horror nonetheless) and school woes the LW1 response made me really jittery and depressed, but after giving it some thought I decided to start working out again instead of take lorazepam and veg out. Baby steps.
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On Ask Polly: I'm Angry At My Mom And I Can't Talk About It!
@pippalongstocking I want to ask a question of you, actually: I need a job but I've never done food service work and I'm in my mid-20's. I've done some retail service and low-level IT maintenance but I've never worked in a diner or waited tables or anything like that. I feel like being a coffee shop employee, or a waiter, is a learned skill that people tend to acquire when they're young.
Also I feel like, depending on where you live and what sort of establishment you're applying to, coffee shops are going to be very selective in non-efficient ways. A few times when I've gone to the coffee shop I sometimes frequent, the staff were reviewing applicants and they meticulously weeded out people they didn't know. I don't know why they did all this in full view of the customers, but hey.
I feel like I should step back from school and start working like an adult but my retail experience (a year at Wal-Mart) is what spurred me into taking school seriously, because there was no way in hell that I was ever going to live like that again.
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On Ask Polly: I'm Angry At My Mom And I Can't Talk About It!
@HeatherH Not particular to the LW's situation, but there have been centers for victims of abuse (physical / sexual) that have had sliding-scale counselors on hand, in every city I've ever lived in. I saw one for 2 years at $20 a session, which was really really underpaying her.
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On "Carnivàle" Broke My Heart
@lovelettersinhell Carnivale and the Black Lodge are all over SNM
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On Why We Need "Enlightened"
I'm afraid to watch this because from what people have told me, I am basically Tyler, and to watch his redemption and still be a nothing would break my heart.
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On Why We Need "Enlightened"
I'm afraid to watch this because from what people have told me, I am basically Tyler, and to watch his redemption and still be a nothing would break my heart.
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On Can You Construct A Functional Joke About A 9-Year-Old At The Oscars?
@Matt I liked her in that movie that I always call Margot at the Wedding even though that's not it at all
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On Can You Construct A Functional Joke About A 9-Year-Old At The Oscars?
@Emily Morris At least 11 of the likes on this comment are definitely from weird twitter people who flocked to this article at the very mention of the term. For a schizoid meme machine they are very on-point with these things
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On Inside Manhattan's Tower of Internet
Always loved the New York Telephone building, we called it "the fortress". You wouldn't even notice it if it wasn't pointed out to you, but it's there, dark and windowless and massive