My first reaction to Kate Middleton's brother peeing was, "Wow, that's her mom? She looks great." Officially desensitized to public urination. Thanks Brooklyn!
I keep a deck of playing cards. I used to carry Uno cards, which were even better. They're great if you get stuck on the train, especially if you're traveling with someone you've spent all day/night with; gives you something new to talk about. With the Uno cards other passengers would constantly talk about their childhood memories of playing the game, which was cozy.
I also carry a small pill pox of tylenol. And ear plugs for concerts.
But she's still a teenager and I'm icked out that publications are following her every move. The gay slurs should have been called out--she made them in a public forum, but you know National Enquirer is paying some Alaskan pot dealer for this story. I wonder if Willow even cares. Her flagrant disrespect for her mother is amazing to watch on Sarah Palin's Alaska.
Being a feminist doesn't make you impervious to pain. You handled this really well--turned it into something positive even (a reunion with friends). So mature for 17. And your writing is awesome, by the way.
I think that by including those quotes in their story Shape is showing that her transformation needed to be mental/emotional before it got physical. I'm glad they weren't just like "Yay Dancing with the Stars. You can just dance your way thin!...By exercising 8 hours a day like it's your job!"
My close friend is seeing a psychologist right now who specializes in obese patients and they're getting to the causes of her unhealthy relationship with food. (It's very much like a drug for her in that she uses it as a release and that she hides how much she's eating.) She hasn't lost a pound yet and that's not really the point right now. But when she does, I hope she's excited by both overcoming the mental and emotional hurdle of it all and getting healthy enough to have a safe pregnancy (her primary reason for wanting to lose weight).
He just recently said some really nice things about his ex. He says she's the only woman he's ever loved because she loved him before he was famous and supported him when no one else did. They had kids very young and those marriages tend to have even shorter spans, so 23 years seems like a good run and he sounds like he still respects and loves her.
I agree with Sarah Silverman about the Kanye comment. He does have diareahea of hte mouth in general, but in this case, he was expressing something a lot of people were feeling. It was kind of awesome to hear someone be so blunt and angry.
I never believed this rumor for a second. She must be pissed, and rightly so. She's never put herself out there as a tabloid person.
And shit: Dino! His voice was the inspiration for Brando's voice in the Godfather. A horse threw him and then stepped on his throat when he was a young man giving him a raspy, quiet voice. Brando said it was so intimidating.
As an associate editor who is not leaving work tonight, I find her expectations a little ridiculous. Working late is what all creative field people do and when you're passionate about putting out a good product--you eat it. What that person said to her in the elevator was beyond a congratulations. Getting hired in 2009 was im-fucking-possible. We had to let great staffers go and not replace them or other staffers who left voluntarily for other jobs (hiring freeze). Pay is absurdly low and loyalty often goes unrewarded (for a pay raise, I would have to leave and come back), but the bottom line is other people do want these jobs. She didn't, and that's fine, but I hope her comments about her boss won't be seen as a sweeping generalization about all "very senior" editors--because that is unfair. I'm not alone in my office tonight. And 10 years ago, my top editor was living just the way I am now.
Drama sucks, cheating sucks, and hurting a third party's feelings does too, but how long can you beat yourself up for it? Relationships end for a lot of reasons and eventually you just have to move forward and start living your life. If she and this dude are in love and together for the next 60 years, will people keep calling her a homewrecker? People say life is short, but life is long--too long to regret forever not doing something or spending forever second-guessing or agonizing over shit that you did.