Yes, it was the cocaine.

The Boy with the Arab Strap! The reviewer liked their earlier stuff better. 🙄

Pitchfork, when it was fairly new, gave a Belle & Sebastian album a zero. Of course I had to go find it out.

That’s their choice! Either they carry the sulk, or you carry anger. It’s like an emotional physics equation. You can’t relieve them of the sulk.

Oof. Then yeah, protect yourself. Which can mean disengaging from conversations in the future. They might get mad if you state a boundary, but that’s their problem, not yours.

That could be verbal, it could be email. “When we talked about (X), you said (y) and I realized afterwards it didn’t sit right with me.” A person who cares about you will want the opportunity for repair. That said, if they were deliberately demeaning, your anger is telling you to protect yourself.

This is coming from a conversation with someone you care about. Figure out what in that conversation made you angry. Take the stance that the other person cares about you too. When you can express it calmly, go back to that person and tell them the conversation left you with these feelings.

I treat myself to a new Swatch every year or so. Have a nice collection built up now!

Many yearbook photos are of under-18s.

I join you in your loathing of farfalle.

I don’t have nostalgia for their scents, but I occasionally wind up in the store when out with family members. They released a tomato scent last summer named Off the Vine that filled the Demeter Tomato Leaf hole in my heart. I hope that comes back.

Oh right! Sorry that escaped me.

On the same schedule.

Oh jeepers.