u/honeydewtangerine

Im travelling to Ireland today from EWR, and i have 2 questions.

(Im only bringing a carry on and personal item)

1. Im an artist and i really want to bring my artist (alcohol-based) copic markers. Every source ive read says its fine, but im still worried theyll get confiscated. Should i be worried, or will it be fine?

2. Airplane food makes me want to throw up (i feel so disgusting on planes) so i wanted to bring a sandwich or something through security so i can eat it when i get hungry on the plane. Is that allowed?

Thanks so much :)

Edit: decided not to bring the markers. Knowing my luck, something would happen, lol. I am bringing a sandwich!

I have about 100-120 markers or so that i really want to bring with me on a trip. Im only bringing a carry-on. Im really worried about them getting confiscated, even though all the websites and posts ive read said that its fine. Has anyone ever had their markers confiscated by TSA?

Theyre $2 down from $4-7. I was going to begrudgingly buy some copics to fill in the holes in my color collection (mainly earth tones and yellows) and i was able to stock up quite well when i saw blick was having a sale!

Father Mulcahy was in the audience after they got the movie, even though the cause of all the excitement surrounding it was the assumption it was basically a porn movie.

Hawkeye: "I've never seen a cleaner movie in my life!"

Fr. Mulcahy, "One of the characters did say 'virgin'!"

Hawkeye: "That's because everyone was!"

I've heard that the Sketch line has a manufacturing defect where the caps crack and the marker gets dried out. I got some Ciaos, and I love them, but the colors are limited compared to the sketch line. Is that still an issue?

I can't believe I spent my life refusing to watch MASH. I really couldnt tell you why. Maybe because no one in my family liked it? When I was watching I Love Lucy on TVLand as a kid, MASH would come on after, and that was a "grown-up" show, and I just never gave it a chance as I got older? I think also I thought that it took place in Vietnam, and I just wasn't interested/that bothered me for some reason? I don't know.

I don't need to tell everyone here this, but it's just a fantastic show. The mix of comedy and tragedy is a delicate mix, and they balanced it perfectly. One episode, they have me laughing, the next, I'm trying (and often failing) not to cry. Some people I knew wrote it off because they felt uncomfortable about a comedy set in a war, but I think that it just attests to the banality of the everyday. War isn't one momentous moment into the next. It's a lot of boredom and waiting around, then a lot of fear and everything happening at once.

I think about the historical context of it all, both in a medical sense and in a societal sense. What amazes me is how far medical science has come. I've said this several times here on the sub, but it blows my mind EVERY TIME I see the glass IV and blood bottles, more than anything else, somehow. Antibiotics were literally just invented.

I think about all the wounded soldiers they treated, the ones that died, the ones that had mental breaks, the ones that ended up okay.

All the characters (especially after season 3) are developed so well and are such strong characters.

After so many years of refusing to watch it, it's now on my top 5 favorites. I'm stopping myself from starting it all over again!

I love my new job at the candy store, but even though i like it, i feel like a wreck at the end of the day. Ive only been working 3 days a week, and im starting 4 days this week, and im worried about it. I have to take 2-3 hrs to recover in bed when i get home, which makes me feel like i don't have a life.

Ive barely been cooking. I've been skipping meals, eating quick foods, or going out to eat and wasting money because i just can't exert any amount of energy. Laundry isnt getting done. Luckily, my husband does the dishes and some laundry here and there, otherwise idk what id do.

Im barely brushing my hair, which i normally am very proud of. Its 3 feet long, but i just put it in a bun most days and then have my husband help me brush it like 2x a week, which isnt great. Half the time im only taking 2 showers a week. (Rest assured, i brush my teeth 2x a day every day though).

I feel like i can either have a job or do anything else.

If you guys can believe it, this is an insane improvement over my last job, in which i cried pretty much every day and felt emotional anguish on top of it all.

(Tagged as sensitive because it was flagged by the automod, but its not really sensitive, i guess)

Im writing a short, fun piece about an army nurse and a catholic army priest falling in love (\*whispers\* its MASH fanfiction 😭 anything to get me writing after years of not being.able to come up with anything i guess, lol...)

Im trying to think of some ways that they could spend quite a decent amount of time together that wouldn't seem weird to others (at first, anyway). The priest in the show goes to help at the local orphanage quite a lot, so that's one way. There was also an episode where he was helping a nurse study for an exam, and she developed a crush on him after spending so much time together.

If anyone has any ideas about this or potential future plot points, im all ears! Thanks!

That is all 😭😭😭

I've always been intrigued by markers and I would really like to get some. I'm not sure of my course of action though.

I am on a very tight budget, but I could put money away to save.

Should I just get a throwaway set, like from ArtPOP, to try it out?

However, the ability to refill is very important to me, which leaves me with Copic, Ohuhu (to a limited degree I think, right? They dont have refills for all their colors), and Blick's house brand markers. Copic and Blick are about the same price at $4.30 each. I've heard Ohuhu is just not as good, so if I get that and I find I really like markers, shouldn't I have gone with copic or blick in the first place? lol.

I'm open to any thoughts!

I've had this issue twice now where federal income taxes aren't being taken out of my paycheck. The last time we owed like $5,000 to the IRS, which we just don't have. I noticed this same thing has happened at my new job. It's only been one paycheck, but I want to nip it in the bud ASAP. Here's the breakdown from my pay stub:

Gross: $459.76 (I work part-time at a low-paying job. It was the only job that got back to me in 8 months of unemployment.)

Taxes: -$66.81

-Social Security -$28.51

-Medicare tax -$6.67

- {State} income tax- $14.11

- {City} tax -$17.20

Take home: $392.95

How come federal income taxes aren't being taken out? I agonized over that W-4 for literal days, triple checked everything, in the hopes that this wouldn't happen again. My employer is "not allowed to offer any advice" on this matter. Does anyone have any insight?

As a side question, should I do married filing separately because I earn so little? I would be eligible for things that we as a unit aren't eligible for, but it may mess up my husband's taxes if he files singly. We are really struggling.

I have gamecube controllers and the adapter that allows you to plug it into the computer. Is there any way to somehow configure the controller to be useable in flycast? I also have a ps3 controller, but id prefer to use the gamecube one. Thanks for any help!

I just got a job in a production kitchen for a bougie candy and ice cream store, so its not the same as a restaurant, but im still struggling dealing with pain.

For back pain, i wear a corset tied loosely, which helps immensely. I would recommend it to anyone. It cuts the pain down to about 15%. But when i forget it or im running late and dont have time to get it on, my back is totally shot at the end of the day.

I got treated for carpal tunnel right before i got this job (the cortisone shot or whatever), so its doing much better, but i do worry about that as well. I wear a brace at night and whenever it hurts at home.

My feet are the biggest issue (which leads to more back pain). I have plantar fascitis, primarily in my left foot, left over from grueling years in retail. I wear nonslip shoes that claimed to have arch support, and i think they do, but i have an extremely high arch, and so it doesnt help much.

When i come home from work at 430 pm, i basically fall asleep immediately and wake up at like 6 or 7, because i cant do anything else. I have a back massager and foot massager, and it helps a little bit, but not in the long run.

Im new to the world of kitchens, and i was wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks that they use to mitigate pain and energy levels.

Thanks!

I have 39k in federal student loans. None private. This is exactly what I had when i graduated 5 years ago.

I stupidly took out loans to get a bachelors and masters degree in humanities, and I have never made more than 2k a month. I was unemployed for 9 months, and I now have a job where I will be bringing home an estimated 1k a month. Together with my husband, we bring home 5k a month.

Under normal circumstances, my payment was supposed to be $400 a month. Thankfully, under the save plan and all the forbearance, I was able to chip away at it when I could, which wasn't often. I got it down i think to 37k. However, now that the save plan is over, its accruing interest and has now grown back to its original 39k.

I genuinely have no idea what to do. I never foresaw the possibility that I would basically never be able to find a decent-paying job. (I've applied to literal thousands of jobs in the past 3 years). I'm now working part-time in a kitchen (which I do very much like, but that's beside the point).

I am SO confused with all the repayment plans, and I'm worried about the interest exploding because I earn so little. I've read like 10 articles regarding the student loan plan, PAYE, IDR, RAP, etc., and I still don't know what to do, everything is so confusing and I don't want to make a mistake.

Does anyone have any advice at all?

So, in an unusual stroke of good luck, I actually got an interview yesterday at a fancy candy store that makes everything from scratch. Everyone there was artsy and quirky, and i felt immediately comfortable there. I would really love the job, and the interview seemed to go really well. They even sent me home with 2 bags of candy and 2 pints of ice cream. I sent them a thank you email today.

However, i can't help but overanalyze everything. Did this thing that i say denote weakness? Did this other thing make me seem like a difficult employee? Ugh. I tried really hard to think through everything i said before i said it, but you never know, especially with us, when our words are always misconstrued.

I really hope i get it, but if I don't, i know im going to hate myself. I shouldn't have said x y an z. I should have said a b c. Its so hard