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Category: psychology

  • Toaster Chicken, the Galaxy, and the Perks of Being Social With Social Media

    I recently came across these in the supermarket: Two words that should never go together are toaster and chicken. So of course I bought a box, and was soon obsessed with toaster chicken; mostly because “toaster chicken” is so fun to say, but also because FlatJacks are surprisingly good, in a chicken nugget sort of…

  • Life Isn’t Supposed to Not Be Confusing

    Last night I opened up my drafts folder on Twitter, and found the following half-finished thought that I’d saved earlier: “life isn’t supposed to not be confusing.” * At first I dismissed it as a drunken tweet gone wrong, but once I got over the perplexing double-negative (how meta, drunk self), I realized that maybe…

  • Bling

    If there is one thing I’ve never fully understood, it’s extravagant jewelry. Nothing says “human existence is pointless” like working your ass off to save enough money to afford a bauble that serves no purpose other than to show how much you worked your ass off. Sure, an expensive diamond looks pretty. So does a fake one…