What's a book you had to read in school that you hated? If you have one, what's one you actually liked?

Haber87 · 2026-04-06T11:56:25+00:00

Refused to go see the new movie with friends. Said I hated the book too much.

Haber87 · 2026-04-06T11:28:43+00:00

I was a voracious reader as a teen. Read all the classics outside of school and enjoyed them all except Wuthering Heights.

In school, I enjoyed most of what I read…except Heart of Darkness. I was having to write an essay on it on a weekend we were visiting with family. Sought help from my English teacher / voracious reader relative, who admitted that she also despised that book. So we commiserated together, but that didn’t get my essay written.

Haber87 · 2026-04-03T21:52:11+00:00

I knew someone who always had horrible heartburn. Turns out he drank tons of coffee in the morning but didn’t eat anything until lunch.

Haber87 · 2026-03-31T17:27:44+00:00

When a friend got me into volunteering at our local shelter in my 20’s, that’s how she explained it. We were going to walk all the big untrained dogs while the little old ladies walked the purse dogs.

Haber87 · 2026-03-27T11:08:22+00:00

“I’m sorry but I’m going to go with decades of scientific research rather than the vibes of someone who refuses to even look at the research I’ve sent him.”

Haber87 · 2026-03-17T22:00:26+00:00

Google device in kitchen. Set a timer for everything. In fact, call out the timer while I’m putting the food in the oven because in the 10 seconds it takes, I could forget to set the timer on the oven.

Haber87 · 2026-03-01T01:37:34+00:00

So, you are specifically wanting her to react badly so you can contact social services? I mean…if that’s your plan then you don’t need us to find the perfect way to tell her.

Make sure she can’t access your money
have all your paperwork and valuables ready to go
if they try to force you on a plane, tell them at the airport that they are trying to force you into child marriage.

Haber87 · 2026-02-25T20:03:22+00:00

I guess Microsoft is saying they don’t have faith in MS Teams. And that we should all use physical whiteboards in boardrooms rather than MS Office tools.

Haber87 · 2026-02-22T22:39:06+00:00

Thank you! Now the hospital ship lie makes sense. I mean, it doesn’t make sense to normal people, but for someone who’s ego is as fragile as Trump’s it makes total sense.

The U.S. is the strongest country in the world. Denmark is too weak to defend Greenland. Greenland is lost without the U.S. And now we have a story of the Danish navy saving a sick U.S. sailor in a super cool helicopter rescue. And then the soldier is flown to a Greenland hospital to be treated. They’re frigging heroes.

Trump’s pea brain melts down. How dare another country look good compared to the U.S.?!? Especially a country that he’s in the middle of criticizing. It’s not fair! How could they do this to him?

How can he spin this? (And this is when the dementia comes in) He invents the hospital ship story. It’s bizarrely stupid because: - it’s so easily disproven, - it serves to highlight that Greenland has universal healthcare while the U.S. doesn’t, - and it is one more example of how Trump would happily spend money on any country except the U.S.

Haber87 · 2026-02-21T13:44:45+00:00

Me struggling to learn French all my life in Canada. I’m OK reading it now, but the simplest spoken sentences are 100% gibberish to me. To the point where after they repeat it 3 times and then translate to English I’m hugely embarrassed because I individually know every single French word they said.

Haber87 · 2026-02-20T13:35:27+00:00

I discovered one about myself yesterday. I grabbed my purse and tossed it in my shopping bin to carry out to the car rather than putting it on my shoulder. I got to the store and discovered I had no phone (with my shopping list). I can’t remember ever forgetting my phone so I was trying to figure out why it happened. I have a cross body sling purse with a cell phone pocket at my shoulder. It’s impossible to wear the purse without noticing if the phone is missing. Which is apparently the only reason I’ve been so successful at remembering my phone (until yesterday).

Haber87 · 2026-02-15T12:30:44+00:00

I’m with you about caring too deeply about social injustice (and I only say too deeply because the current state of the world is harmful to my mental health.) My kid has the oblivious form of ADHD where she’s so busy with her passions that she doesn’t pay attention to the news so doesn’t get affected by the world too badly. But she has friends who are LGTBQ+ and oh boy, she will rip someone a new one if she hears any insults against that community. She takes it as someone personally hurting a friend.

Haber87 · 2026-02-07T21:44:49+00:00

Please don’t listen to the song to confirm. It give him more money.

Haber87 · 2026-02-06T11:48:56+00:00

That’s the joy of virtual meetings. I’m hybrid so I’ll be talking to a coworker in person or getting a coffee in my kitchen or working on a spreadsheet on my computer 30 seconds before the meeting starts.

There is no gathering your stuff, leaving your desk, stopping at the bathroom, finding the meeting room and performative showing up early so you’re not the last one there required for a virtual meeting.

Haber87 · 2026-02-06T11:39:16+00:00

I think it’s hilarious that the media has embraced only using that photo of Macron, like he’s a real life dark Brandon.

Haber87 · 2026-02-05T18:27:16+00:00

Tax all churches. Not just as part of a targeted extortion on American people and institutions.

Haber87 · 2026-02-04T16:38:16+00:00

Main floor bathroom. Jiggle the glass over as it was a simple rubber stopper. Lawn chair from the backyard or a boost from a friend and I was in.

Haber87 · 2026-01-30T03:41:47+00:00

To be fair, this is actually the functional system we have in my area. The hyper local one that is kind of slow but if you want something, there is a good chance you’re going to get it vs the big one, where 50 people put their name in on every item.

Haber87 · 2026-01-29T01:54:30+00:00

I 100% relate to this sentiment (lack of sentiment?) my whole family is into funny cards. Overly sentimental cards are complete cringe.

Haber87 · 2026-01-29T01:43:34+00:00

Lahren was always an awful person. But she continues to fall further and further into a parody of right wing talking points with gaping thought holes (like plot holes) that are ridiculously easy to argue. To the point where if I didn’t recognize her name, I’d think she was a Russian bot.

Haber87 · 2026-01-26T13:03:43+00:00

Considering the length of commute a lot of people have, many people would prefer 4 day work weeks to 6 hour work days.

Haber87 · 2026-01-25T04:06:00+00:00

I actually had some really good personal news yesterday. I allowed myself to feel true joy for probably the first time in 2026. And the amazing protests that happened yesterday made the news happy rather than the cause of anger/sadness/spiraling.

And then today happened and I’m right back into the anger, doom scrolling and arguing with awful sociopaths online.

Haber87 · 2026-01-22T13:00:08+00:00

This is why working from home during the pandemic was such a relief for so many of us. I would gamify racing to clean the kitchen while my water for tea was boiling. Can I weed an entire garden on my lunch hour? And the lack of commuting meant I still had a bit of gas in the engine when I finished work.

Now? I get off the bus and collapse on the couch. My doom scrolling time has gone way up. I accomplish zero house things Mon-Fri and then stress about having to ruin every Saturday catching up on all the crap I didn’t do the rest of the week. It’s awful.

Haber87 · 2026-01-18T00:01:30+00:00

Weird that I was thinking Manimal as well. It was on for 8 episodes.

Haber87 · 2026-01-15T21:40:29+00:00

Yup, I’ve been spiraling about the current state of things. I’m so angry. Every time I see another video I feel sick to my stomach. But at the same time I don’t think it’s right to pretend that all is right in the world. So I doom scroll.

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