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1. 20 % of millenials say they have no friends

Curious? How do you define friendship?

( musing on friendship and what it is )

2. The Editor in Chief of the X-men Comics is...a Hannibal/Will shipper and a Xander/Anya shipper...LOL!

( interesting ships of comic book creators )

3. One of my fav's Toni Morrison died at 88.

I loved her book "Beloved", and others.
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4. At work, coworker was highly rec'ing "The Boys" and "Umbrella Academy" which I call millenial anti-superhero television series. Co-worker hates superhero films and shows, and these were made for her.

I told her I was the opposite.

I don't like dark and gritty, anti-hero shows, about whiny entitled characters. That's reality. I'm trying to escape reality when I watch movies and television shows, not fall into it. Hyper-realism and me are unmixy things at the moment. (She totally got it.)

I was trying to read "White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo" - I think that's her name, and it reads like a psycho-socioligical text on racism from a white perspective.
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The other non-fiction I've decided to attempt is Emily Bernard's memoir, about being female and black in the South, over a long period of time. It's a series of personal essays, circling around when she got stabbed in the Kidney. It's easier and more compelling a read that White Fragility -- but that may be because it's more personal and less academic, so I'm less skeptical and my brain doesn't feel the need to analyze and debate every point. Academic text tends to bring out the lawyer in me for some reason.

5. Other conversation, somewhat triggering, had with co-worker today was...well career we wished we had. ( Read more... )

6. Been procrastinating setting up a dental appointment. Dental insurance issues. I called Metlife, my dental insurance, and asked them what network I was in. Turns out there is no such thing.
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