You know, Starbucks has busted out the pumpkin spice, dozens of kids have disemboweled gourds & cut smiling faces into their corpses, and Costco already has the Christmas decorations out. Yep. It’s Halloween time. Even though Halloween has changed a lot since I was a kid… This is still...
He was happy to have a coffee with me the following day, until I pointed out that I was already going to be at the venue in the first instance, surrounded by people who know me and I feel safe around who may or may not be dropping by to talk to me at the same time. He gets ...
Why are penguins socially awkward? Because they can’t break the ice. Why couldn’t the duck pay for dinner? Her bill was too big. What animal dresses up and howls? A werewolf. What did the mother elephant say to her kids when they weren’t behaving? “Tusk, tusk.” What do you ...
Her friends would describe her as eccentric and socially awkward, often losing interest in social interactions due to her intense focus on finding the next great deal.” There is a whole science to writing character description. See the SillyTavern docs f...
I order each time I go in, walking out with precious curry tucked under my arm like a bear guarding the honeypot. If you don’t sneak out like me, there’s plenty of places to sit – an outdoor patio ( dogs allowed! ) and their indoor space makes me want to plant myself there...
Health is the state of your well-being that includes how you feel physically, mentally, and socially. Wellness is another term that describes this broader view of health. You can understand the need for a broader definition if you think about how health in your life is different from health...
There have been studies on talking to strangers that suggest that people anticipate that it's gonna go badly. I'm gonna be awkward. They're not gonna wanna talk to me. And then when they actually do have that conversation, they're like, “Oh, that went real...
Honestly this completely blew my mind and the ending, well let me just say I cannot wait for ‘The Secrets of the Storm Forest,’ so I can find out what happens next! A Girl Called Justice – The Ghost in the Garden – Elly Griffiths (cover Nan Lawson) Justice Jones is back and ...
But for me it’s the setting, on a corner of Hoe Street and Tower Hamlets Road where you can sit out and watch the world go by with a great coffee. Above all, Myles is a helluva cool chatty guy who really knows how to make coffee with heart at its centre of its brew. ...
It wasn’t that I was conceptually ahead of everyone, it was that I was literally putting too much output out and getting complaints because of it. I discovered that if I stopped work at 11am each day I met the pace of everyone else around me. I was forced to loaf at the pace of...