My sister's been going through this a bit. She's studying for the MCAT right now, and her scores on practice exams dropped a bit after COVID-19 and haven't recovered as quickly as she wants. She also feels that persistent brain fog, and says it's harder for her to find the words she wants.

Thanks guys. We're still in the salary negotiating phase, and I know they're desperate to hire before school kicks off in about a month. I'm going to see if I can leverage that for a bit more pay (my current salary isn't far outside of their range), but ultimately I'll plan on accepting the position. I'll keep y'all updated and let you know how it goes!

My favorite part of this URL is how the randomly generated letters cut my mind

I've been into some chill, slower indie stuff recently:

I've also been trying to force myself to cheer up with some more upbeat tunes:

And finally, some weird fuckin' glam 80's shit that's probably in 500,000 lofi remixes:

Basically, I want someone to look at my 'Most Listened' on Spotify and assume that I eat cigarettes for snacks

The universe really saw you being smug and decided to fuck with you a bit, huh? Probably best to check your fluid levels later, but at least splash shield replacements are cheap (and, as you learned, pretty helpful!).

I think the discourse we have here is fantastic, but the bar for entry is set past the point of willingness to inconvenience yourself for the good of society. It's really, really hard to have conversations like this with someone that doesn't even speak the same political language as you

Once again, international tensions are making me grateful for my (previously) broken leg and current inability to run more than a mile

The DMZ is still the DMZ - Parts of the border are more heavily fortified than others, and since the whole DMZ is about 2.5 miles wide it varies depending on how close you actually are to the international border. I don't have time to look into it as much as I want to, but apparently there's been some effort to remove landmines and other ordinance in the past decade

I mean, for some people graduating high school is the milestone of their young lives. It's a big, big moment for a lot of people even if it's pretty boring!

And uhhh...Yeah, I mean the missed sex thing is a bit hyperbolic, but surely I'm not the only one that found it kind of relatable? COIVD-19 has absolutely made things a bit harder for a young single lad. The only girl I'm seeing right now has had COVID-19 and tested negative for it twice in a row about a month ago, and since she's a nurse she's pretty on top of her health - one of a few people I feel safe having sex with at the moment. I don't think people are going to go insane for a lack of sex, but a lot of humans do be fucking pretty regularly when they can.

Part of it is, I think, is what my friends and I have been calling "Quarantine Horny." With so much spare time and a lack of socializing, I think the hormones have just been accumulating and people are getting pretty friendly with one another. Who knows, though? I might just have weird friends

I don't think Trump is going to maintain power past a defeat in the election (and in that sense I agree that the article is hyperbolic), but I do think there's danger of Trump not acknowledging the results of the election.

I'm worried about the fallout from forcibly removing Trump from power; Am I going to be arguing with family members over Thanksgiving about whether the democrats "stole" the presidency? How could this be spun by pundit media outlets like Fox to whip up the nationalistic peaks of Trump's base? If there's an armed force of citizens removing him from power as you suggest, are we contending with the military? How does the military decide who to follow - will there be a rift in our armed forces over who to support as president even if the law is clear on the matter? Do we host a contingent election if things are looking grim enough?

I completely agree with the spirit of your comment - if Trump continues to physically occupy the residence after his term, he will have to be physically removed. To pull kleinbl00's comment into this, the odds that his followers stick by him seem pretty slim to me as well...But Trump himself is a fucking moron, and if he doesn't transfer power peacefully, what happens? Best case scenario in my mind is that he's physically removed and tried for treason. It also seems likely that he'd just become a private citizen spouting some bullshit akin to his birther movement, except with the rhetoric of, "I should be president!" Worst case scenario, people actually listen to him.

Maybe I don't need to be worried. I hope I'm being nervous for no good reason. But my faith in Trump and his followers (both citizen and senator) to follow the rule of law could not be lower, and I can't make myself stop feeling nervous.

Duly noted, I'll hope to not use this piece of wisdom

DJ Khaled has good music but I'm so fucking shook, even to this day, by the shit he said about oral sex w/ his wife

“A woman should praise the man — the king,” Khaled, now 42, said in the interview. “If you holding it down for your woman I feel like the woman should praise. And a man should praise the queen. But you know, my way of praising is called, ha-ha, ‘How was dinner?’, ‘You like the house you living in? You like all them clothes you getting? I’m taking care of your family, I’m taking care of my family…’ You know, I’m putting in the work.”

He then added that while he "never" goes down on his wife, he expects her to fellate him on the reg nonetheless: “It’s different rules for men,” he said. “You gotta understand, we the king. There’s some things that y’all might not wanna do, but it got to get done. I just can’t do what you want me to do. I just can’t.”

That's the weakest shit I've ever heard. That's like throwing a bone and some water into a bowl, microwaving it, and serving it as soup. WEAK.

There's even video of a cop kneeling on the neck of a looter they are arresting - exactly the same thing that killed Floyd in MPLS - and the other cop with him PUSHES THE COP'S KNEE OFF THE PERSON'S NECK.

Saw that video. Made me angry. It took literally less than a second for one cop to stop it. What the fuck were the three cops doing while they watched George Floyd die? We know what it takes to prevent it now. Any one of them could've taken less than a second to move a Derek Chauvin's knee, and none of this would be happening. The country is burning because George Floyd was killed by a psychopath, and because those three men were deaf to the pleas of onlookers and unwilling to look weak, even at the cost of a man's life.

A split-second decision to do their job - to protect and fucking serve - is all it would have taken.

Fuck 12. No justice, no peace.

I've definitely just been learning songs so far, thinking it would be good to stick in a get-oriented phase for a while before trying to step into theory...But I think it's probably time to start learning formal exercises, since I've already built up some enthusiasm and momentum (and calluses) by plucking around :)

I know how to read music from when I used to play the viola, but it's been at least six years since I tried - I quit in high school to focus on other extra-curriculars, as I was never very good at it.

Bought myself the ultimate guitar tabs app, it's been very useful. Mel Bay Method 1 is on deck!

Lmao @ Iowa and Nebraska being the only states with opinions on the other. Same with Kansas and Missouri. Fucking love the heartland rivalries :)

Very true! I've been playing for about a month, and I've got a decent grasp of open chords and basic strumming techniques. Just enough callus on my fingertips to play for an hour or two without pain :)

I'm a stone-cold beginner, trying to self-teach with all the time isolated. I'll ask for more advice as I run into problems that feel unconquerable due to anything other than a lack of practice, but if you have any tips for starting out I'd love to hear them!

Might actually help! Can you recommend any specific products?

“I’m looking forward to (finally) being able to prove to my 7-year-old son that I do, indeed, have a job,” American Football’s Mike Kinsella said in a statement.

Lmao everything about this post speaks to the midwest emo kid sitting latent inside me since 2012

I'd like to take a moment to say that the mushrooms themselves are beautiful! As delicious as they must be, I'm really loving their aesthetic right now

I laughed at the "...and I fucked your mom" from nowhere at the end, caught me off guard lol

This pleases my midwestern soul

I have desk envy >:/

I can see the Arbor Day Foundation headquarters from my room. How lovely!

Damn, those are great!!

...Hey guys let's all agree not to dox me

I've heard! I think I'll try to find an open craft store in my city, see if they have any for sale :)

Pls give us updates on the tulips as they come in!