The Fat Nutritionist [link] has a recent entry on being unable to eat in front of people, with a side note on being uneasy about grocery shopping because of being afraid of what people will think about your purchases. I'm finding it rather boggling. I despise acting less than competent in front of strangers--being lost, having trouble parking, and such--but I wasn't aware that eating in public--or just buying your groceries!--could be a fraught issue. Apparently a lot of blameless people are surrounded by jackasses who feel compelled to comment on people's food in public. I'm feeling very grateful not to have been exposed to such people--and for my (possibly inflated) sense of self-worth that is apparently keeping them away from me now.

I'm appalled with Brenda. What the everliving fuck?

Connie,I didn't go to restaurants alone for years and years because of my anxiety.

I used to feel guilty at grocery stores, as well.

Dunno when that stopped.

I used to have retail anxiety that required me to buy something, however small, no matter what store I walked into. As if I didn't deserve to look and leave.

Not sure when that stopped.

I have skipped. Kind of a lot. Hope y'all surviving snowpocalypse.

Oh, and this is great: [link]

Now, if y'all excuse me, I have a Sunday to beat down and vikingzised. What does not kill me, only makes me stronger... or a zombie.

I adore The Fat Nutritionist.

I continually find it perplexing that we go to great lengths to teach children about historical examples of successful and righteous civil disobedience and then are shocked when they use the tactic.

I continually find it perplexing that we go to great lengths to teach children about historical examples of successful and righteous civil disobedience and then are shocked when they use the tactic.

When I was in ninth grade, a bunch of us tried having a sit-in to protest a new rule that we had to be out of the freshman hallway within ten minutes after the bell. (There had been some vandalism issues, and everybody knew who had done it, but he wouldn't admit it, so the school decided to punish all of us.) But the bunch of us who stayed after we were supposed to go were all "good kids," so the teachers just kind of laughed at us and let us stay as long as we wanted.

I'm with you, Debet. That kind of punishment is ridiculously draconian.

Kate, I'm on Cipro 3x a week for ... well, a month to begin with. And a huge amount of vitamins and probiotics. So, I've got Epstein-Barr, Lyme's, AND cat-scratch fever.

Yikes, Jilli, I remembered you were being tested for all three, but didn't realize they had actually diagnosed you with all of them! I'm so sorry.

They haven't put me on Cipro yet; maybe that will be the next one? I'm getting more and more convinced that the infection never really went away entirely, and has now started to ramp up again. Ugh, do not want.

I'm not sure I get what the big issues is with tardy slips though.

Yeah, I agree that the punishment seems way, way too harsh, but I'm also a little confused about the point of the demonstration. They don't think they should have to get tardy slips? ...Why? Are they arguing that there shouldn't be any consequences for being tardy? Or was the intention just to create disruption?