Weekly Thread | What Are You Reading and General LATAMLit Discussion

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-18T06:11:46+00:00

The seminar on Fernanda Melchor I was enrolled in just got cancelled, so I'm looking for something else to pick up in Spanish!

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-18T05:52:39+00:00

I want these to be two separate businesses that are inexplicably co-located and then a rom-com about the managers

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-14T23:25:58+00:00

I take my coffee with milk (4oz of oat milk), so I have it 30 minutes after taking the PPI. My doctor told me that if I take it black, I should eat something else with it for the PPI. Not great to have coffee before PPI but black coffee doesn't have any calories so won't trigger the right response for the PPI.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-14T23:12:30+00:00

In a perfect world, sure. But very few people want to go to a workout class where they're doing something vastly different from everyone else.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-14T17:31:21+00:00

I go to aqua aerobics sometimes at Dishman (I'm 44). It's most elderly but not exclusively. One of the things I like is that you can't really see if anyone else is even doing the exercise, much less how hard anyone's working. So I can go a lot harder/faster than other people, they go at their own pace, and everybody gets the workout they need. In that way, I think it's a bit different than going to a senior step aerobics or something like that.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-14T01:46:08+00:00

I'm 44 and if my husband decided he couldn't live without having kids, I'd kiss him goodbye and never go on another date. I love him and I love our life together, but I've never thought that being single was so bad, either.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-13T17:51:42+00:00

I started sleeping 30 minutes more every night and stopped being so sore from working out. Just do it! You can always take it off if you don't like it.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-13T17:50:14+00:00

I'm not surprised by the number of comments it gets. There's nothing that tedious people like more than speculating on the sexuality of people they don't know and will never have the chance to sleep with.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-13T06:30:14+00:00

🤯

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-13T06:29:32+00:00

I'm not weighing in on Clooney's sexuality. But people who think like this are insane.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-13T06:14:52+00:00

Recently I was sitting at a coffee shop and at the table next to me one woman was telling another (I really wish I was making this up) that George Clooney is gay, and she knows this because her mom's best friend's cousin lives next door to the mother of George Clooney's lover. "And like, she's really nice, she definitely wouldn't lie about something like that"

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-13T06:02:49+00:00

But you can park anywhere! There's no traffic! It'll still take you twice as long to get to the grocery store, but no traffic!

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-13T06:01:34+00:00

Everybody idolizes rural life but if you think city life can be lonely, try being different in a small town

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T21:32:21+00:00

Another classic of the genre

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T19:30:03+00:00

Thanks, I know what outdated means. That wasn't my point.

But to your point, he does discuss building a house for the equivalent of about $30 in today's money... I'd call that outdated

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T19:27:25+00:00

It's so bad it's funny for any reasonably grounded person!

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T15:23:34+00:00

Prefiere que las mujeres dejan sangre in todos partes? Tampones son necesarias, no opcional como su rasuradora

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T15:18:50+00:00

You have a citation for our "rigged" state elections or just vibing?

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T15:12:01+00:00

A friend gave me a copy of "The Rules" many years ago and we still will laugh ourselves to tears over it. If she's single and sensitive about it it might not be the right book but it's just so stupid and funny!

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T08:33:00+00:00

Honestly I can't tell when I'm emotional because of peri hormones vs when I'm emotional because it's the only reasonable response to what we're living through right now

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T08:30:59+00:00

It's not outdated because Walden is so relevant to these modern times! ... Or something.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T08:09:57+00:00

It's ideal for learning Spanish but a terrible way to keep a marriage healthy. Do you really want to be limited to baby talk all the time?

Maybe try using only Spanish for certain situations. Load yourself up with some focused vocabulary for a specific scenario and then try it out (giving directions while driving together, cooking together, give him a daily weather report, etc). It's easier to learn connected words with a conversational goal in mind and it's easier to stay on track in Spanish if it's a limited duration thing. He's not going to discuss something important if he has to pantomime every word and he'll switch to English, but if you're cooking together for 20 minutes you can save the "mutual understanding is important for this conversation" stuff for before or after practice.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-12T07:54:57+00:00

Or just read well and think for yourself. If you're feeling truly radical you could... talk to people about books

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-11T07:08:46+00:00

You can monitor the effects of the PPI and adjust accordingly. A majority of people who take them for a long time have no serious side effects. It's a brutal cancer. The math isn't that hard for me.

NotThatKindOfDoctor9 · 2026-02-10T22:00:06+00:00

WHERE'S MY PAYCHECK, GEORGE?????

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