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Reaction videos can be cheesy but this woman is an opera singer and vocal coach and her reaction to Sweet Transvestite is priceless.

13-year recovering alcoholic here. I’ve been watching The Bear on a loop. I’m probably on my 5th rewatch. There are many reasons that I love this show: the story, the characters, the setting, the music. I am inspired by the work ethic in the kitchen. I empathize with everyone’s very human flaws.

One of my favorite things, though, is Carmy’s Al-Anon storyline and the way that recovery references are woven throughout the show. There’s acceptance, service, making amends, letting go of control, keeping your side of the street clean, and doing the next right thing. The story itself is about the Berzattos’ recovery from chaos and wreckage. It’s comforting to see those concepts in a show that I already love so much. So, I shall continue watching until I get sick of it, which might be never.

One thing (among many) that I hate about being a lawyer is that at 5 pm you can’t just throw down your wrench and clock out and celebrate a good day’s work. Instead, when I try to sign out for the day, I have this shitty gremlin voice in my head that tells me that I should keep working into Friday evening and also work during the weekend. Then I think about how tired I am because it’s been a long week and decide that I’m DEFINITELY going to work during the weekend to make up for not working late Friday night. Then I don’t work over the weekend because I want to live my life but I’m not completely resting because I’m thinking about how I should be working.

To break habits, you have to break habits, right? I’m breaking this one this weekend. I’m going stay in recharge mode until Monday and I’m not going to feel bad about it. Because, fuck that noise.

Thought: I initially didn’t like the ending. I thought it was weird that Carmy was just going to work at The Bear instead of being the head chef given his skills and accolades. But then I realized that that was all he ever wanted - to work at the restaurant. He set out to become a chef because he was pissed that Mikey wouldn’t let him work in the restaurant. He knows that he’s too fucked up to be head chef (although he’s working on himself) and I think he’s happy just working there. Of course, he wanted to work alongside Mikey, but instead he gets to work alongside a family of people who love each other and love him.

Question: Am I a weirdo for watching the series multiple times? There is something about it that is very comforting to me. Also, I feel like I catch new things every time I watch it.

I have been on Zepbound since January and have lost 34.5 lbs. I am almost at goal and am definitely smaller but not as small as I used to be at this weight. I haven’t even changed shirt sizes. And I know it’s because I am losing muscle instead of fat. There are lots of reasons to work out besides aesthetics, but the problem is that that’s what has really motivated me to work out in the past. Now I am losing weight and my body is looking somewhat better so I don’t have the same motivation to go work out. Hopefully this is making sense. I just don’t have the eye of the tiger anymore and I want to get it back.

My brother watched “Fishes” before I did, and he texted me about it and said “trigger warning.” DD is like a slightly more crazy version of my mom. The guilt trips, the martyrdom, the emotional whiplash, the chaos. I know I’m not the only one who had a mom like that. The episode is both upsetting and captivating because Jamie Lee Curtis’s performance is so fucking amazing. Hard to believe she’s the same actress who played a hooker and showed her boobs in Trading Places.

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I was in my last year of law school. Everyone was crowded around the TVs in the student lounge, silent. My first class that day was Constitutional Law, and I remember we all basically sat there just not talking because no one knew what to say, even the professor.

I mostly just want to rant. I was diagnosed with ADD about 7 years ago; I have been practicing insurance defense for 23 years. Now I’m on medication and have a therapist who specializes in ADD and am more able to recognize distractions rather than just being in them. And, basically, none of that shit has helped. I still get stuck almost every day. I avoid big projects. I wait until a deadline is close before I start working on something. I have incredible difficulty starting new tasks so when I do finish something I feel compelled to take a “break” and fuck around doing nothing for way too long. My billables are okay but mostly because I work until 730 every night after being unproductive during the day. I forget things. I make mistakes. I lose my train of thought. I have lists, apps, systems - none of which seem to work. Somehow I’ve made it to managing partner but after all these years I still feel like an imposter who is going to be found out any day now.

It’s hard not to see these things as character flaws because I see them through the eyes of my clients. I feel like I probably seem lazy, unprepared, unreliable, or like I just do not care enough to get my shit together. The reality is that I spend an enormous amount of mental energy doing nothing basically and trying to override my brain. And it is fucking exhausting.

My family is tired of croissants because I have made them so many times. I would like to try something else with laminated dough but have not been able to find many recipes - kouign-amann is all I have found. I saw a video about cross-lamination which looked really cool but again there are no recipes anywhere. Not that I can find at least.