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What I actually wrote on the survey, just in case it helps, which 22 years of experience with the institution tells me it will not: "Stop suspending protestors."

My alma mater: What can we do to get you to donate to us?

Me: I dunno, maybe go back in time and don't teach me about systems of oppression in which you are actively complicit? And, while you're at it, make me believe that you give a single fuck about students?

You know, at first I was primarily freaked out about the Corinthian teeth situation, but the longer I look at it the more upsetting I find the eyeball mouth.

Twas indeed

Yes! Was thinking that as I was trying to look up another restaurant that was in that space a decade or so later.

RIP Neal’s and their wasabi coleslaw

I love that your first experience of New Jersey was landing in Newark in the rain, as it should be.

Okay, I guess I know what I'm doing with my evening

Yes. Work and The Horrors are closely intertwined right now, and I wish Leisure to be slightly separate from both.

Sold. I feel like I should be playing my Steam games instead, but I have played the shit out of all my Switch games and wish to be horizontal on the couch.

I feel like a fraud cause I have never played a Pokémon game before, but this one seems relevant to my interests

How are you liking Pokopia so far? Considering getting it

It's like the dentist waiting room tweet, except drugs instead of teeth.

Anyway, more seriously, that was delightful and I'm so glad I stumbled upon it. ♡

I grew up in that area and my parents fucking loved that place. Coincidentally, it was across the street from an A&P

Screenshot of a shopping center from Google maps. All the cars are mysteriously white.

@rahnealexander.com

Imagine my surprise when I saw who wrote the first piece. 😂

Fwiw I don't think there was a Mexican restaurant in Rumson at the time, but there was a restaurant called Casa Comida in this shopping center in Little Silver, which was v close to the town line.

Absolutely

A beer and a zine on a brown patio table. The cover of the zine reads "Eight Stone Press Presents: Beach Badge, Literary Driftwood from the Shores of Jersey." There's a black and white photo on the front of a wave, with a surfer out of focus in the background.

Hurrah, my first outdoor drinking day of the year.

I thought we got over "Fellas, is it gay to like lattes" in the 90s.

Honestly, so much of this reads to me as "Real men drink black coffee they made over an open fire, only women and gays have custom coffee orders."

Sorry you hate your life, buddy.

From the outside the answer is "of course" but as someone whose internal monologue does this a lot I get that it's not that simple.

But still, ftr, a resounding yes.

I especially don't understand why more distance learning librarians don't push for this. Folks, your job is already proof that you don't have to be in the same physical location to have meaningful interactions! And y'all already know how to use online conferencing tools!

Love me a hatchback too.

Oh crap, I missed that.

Wait, where are folks going now?

Sorry, the Hoover Institution. Ugh

The Hoover Institute - all for rugged individualism and the free market except where "fussy" "pink soy" drinks are concerned.

I hate these people so much.

Have they fixed the blindspot? Because if so I am going back to a Prius when I get a new car, that's the only thing that dissuaded me the last time.

Yes!

Also I take a perverse pleasure in fucking with the aesthetics of the garage.

See also: Picking up my packages dressed like The Dude, when other folks here seem to wear real clothes just to take the trash out.

Living in my condo building is hilarious because everyone else who lives here super cares about appearances, and both M's car and my car are a) old, b) scratched to shit and c) dirty.

Reminds me of the old Cat Scan website