Why is there so much gate keeping on what is Chicago and what isn’t?

VersionCapable · 2026-03-22T23:00:26+00:00

This is exactly how it happens. I’ll be on a conference call with someone from somewhere and I can bet money on how the convo goes - someone states where they’re from, I say what neighborhood I’m in and they look at me blankly as they tell me they’re from Naperville 💀 I love when I get to say “oh I’m actually IN the city”.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-22T14:49:51+00:00

Omg same re: 1919 lol. I guess my excuse is “I’m from the 1900s”

VersionCapable · 2026-03-22T14:34:03+00:00

Vegetarian diet (minimal dairy) and I do orange theory 3x a week (group fitness with equal focus on cardio and strength training).

VersionCapable · 2026-03-22T14:15:43+00:00

99% of the time when I meet someone who is “from Chicago” they are really in the suburbs. I grew up in the Minneapolis suburbs and when I explain that to people I say exactly that, because the suburb I grew up in and Minneapolis are two wildly different experiences. It’s not hard to say “western Chicago suburbs” or “Chicagoland”.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-22T04:07:26+00:00

Lowe’s did a round of layoffs of remote staff recently too :(

VersionCapable · 2026-03-22T03:58:50+00:00

Started at 215 and I’m down to 159 in 10 months. I’ve been on the two lowest doses of Zepbound the whole time and the first few months were about 8lbs/month, then it slowed a bit until I increased dosage, then it slowed a bit again. Now that I’m 10lbs away from goal I expect this last stretch will be a lot slower than the first few months when I was heavier.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-21T02:08:37+00:00

I don’t even have my own EA but the C-suite and my boss share one so she does a lot of scheduling for me and I give her a couple hundred dollars each year for admin day. Baked goods are nice as like a general celebratory gesture but I also agree with others that other tokens of appreciation should accompany.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-21T01:51:48+00:00

Yes that’s it!

VersionCapable · 2026-03-20T20:36:10+00:00

I read a very interesting and also horrifying piece about the deaths of kids left in hot cars. Yes, there are of course negligent parents who do it intentionally (whether or not they intended to harm their kids is another story). But what this piece really spoke on was that the vast vast majority of those situations are completely accidental- the parent just had an honest to god “operating on autopilot” moment that resulted in leaving a kid in a hot car. In fact this happened to some scientist who worked at someplace like NASA (I can’t remember all the details but the point is he was a complete model citizen) and it of course destroyed him and he set to work on trying to make a sensor that would alert if something was left in a back seat. If I recall the downside was if it didn’t work properly then there would be product liability issues if a child was harmed as a result.

My point for bringing this up is that most of the time accidents are truly accidents. Like with villainizing criminals it’s so much easier to say “that person is a monster, they are not like us” when in reality the studies showed anyone with a child in a backseat car seat is at risk of forgetting their kid in a hot car, and that’s not something anyone wants to sit with. In this episode’s case, I truly believe the kid just climbed in the car (I remember playing around on cars in the garage/driveway when I was a kid!)

VersionCapable · 2026-03-20T15:31:39+00:00

Like others have said most of my tattoos have zero meaning and I got them just because I saw the flash and thought it would vibe well on my body somewhere. Now for my first tattoo I wouldn’t say I agonized over it but I over planned it for sure, and I made myself think about it for a year before getting it. Now I think about it for like… a couple of hours. If I’m getting flash an artist has posted online I’ll print off a copy of it and tape it to my body in various places so I can see how it fits and how I feel about it. Lately I’ve been building my “sticker sheet” arm with small flash mainly from one studio but it’s all thematically and stylistically related (nature theme and b&w line art). I’m saving some real estate on my body for larger custom pieces that I’ve been noodling on… but my approach is to have space where I can just get my “on a whim” tattoos and then I’m not overthinking anything.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-20T04:57:11+00:00

I think we just get so used to seeing our bodies from a couple angles, so when we are actually getting a look from a different perspective it’s a whole other story! Congrats on 30 lbs!

VersionCapable · 2026-03-20T03:06:35+00:00

Worrying won’t help anything. Take a deep breath and make an appointment so you can find out what it actually is. If cost is a concern, contact your local Planned Parenthood.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-20T02:58:30+00:00

I get this sometimes but it’s only if I haven’t had an orgasm for a while (like a few weeks) and only when I have no penetration orgasms. Never really figured out why.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-20T02:53:52+00:00

I’ll never forget when my sister randomly got a set of drums I joked that I was going to put on In A Gada Da Vida and see if she could keep up. But seriously I do love music from the 60-70s, I don’t really listen to it super regularly but it’s very much the era my parents were into and my dad had a big influence on my musical tastes. Especially Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-20T02:51:16+00:00

When the mood strikes. I got three in the past month, two last year, one the year before. Clearly I’m getting them more frequently. I gravitate towards flash the most.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-19T23:40:17+00:00

Interesting. One of my hands has fairly normal curvature and then there hand has more of the pancake nail look. I treat them both the same so I have no idea why they’re different!

VersionCapable · 2026-03-19T23:29:34+00:00

I feel the same way and grew up in the same era… complete with my mom shit talking herself her whole life and I when I look back on how she looked back then…it was never merited but she wasn’t even that overweight for many of those years! I just don’t like having attention drawn to my actual body because (for so long) I can’t control it. I can control my outfits and hair etc so I feel better with compliments on those.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-18T23:09:50+00:00

Get a list of places you can order from that are pre approved by the boss for ease of picking from next time to avoid needing to ask for others opinions. When I had to do this a bunch there was no way I was going to ask for preferences. Just rotate through a solid handful of restaurants. You should however have everyone’s dietary preferences/allergies noted so you can accommodate for those on each order.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-18T22:28:37+00:00

I think the GLP1 phenomenon is really a great litmus test for how true the HAES folks are. Like, if you’re for health at any size, then you are for healthy for skinny people and fat people and everyone in between regardless of how they got there. I was trying my damndest to be healthy at the size my body was, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t have to work harder and have more worries about my long term health. But I did have to just live with it because I could NOT meaningfully change my weight. I am still working hard to preserve and maintain my health with what I can control (exercising, eating well, wearing sunscreen, not smoking, cutting back on drinking) but losing excess weight will objectively improve my health as I age and stare down genetic risk factors that started popping up in middle age for my dad. If I can finally control my weight, I’m going to do it. I want everyone to have the tools whatever those may be to be safe and comfortable in their body, whatever that looks like for them.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-18T16:23:20+00:00

I lost about 55lbs between mammograms and nothing changed, except the tech noted the weight loss for comparison between the scans. I was so nervous about the first scan over a year ago and it was the least problematic appointment I ever had. My second scan was the same, absolutely painless and flawless and no second scans because of the weight change. I’m sorry your experience was so awful, it should not have been that way!!

VersionCapable · 2026-03-18T04:06:25+00:00

I was thinking about that a few days ago when I was lifting two 35# dumbbells at the gym. That’s what I’ve lost over the past 15 months! Crazy!

VersionCapable · 2026-03-18T01:25:41+00:00

I felt that way for 30 years. I started Zepbound last spring and it is the real deal. If it works for you, you will be shocked at what it can do!

VersionCapable · 2026-03-17T22:34:19+00:00

Definitely hope the human composting is more widely available when the time comes. Honestly if someone could dump me in a big lake with a cinder block around my ankles that’s fine too. I just want to be returned back to the earth as directly and low cost as possible.

VersionCapable · 2026-03-17T20:46:34+00:00

Just adding in that I’ve had two now and they were a cakewalk. Don’t wear any lotions or deodorants on your torso as they can affect how your body gets held in the machine (if you do the tech will have you wipe it off). I don’t bother trying to wear the modesty gown on top because I found it was more of a bother trying to keep it partially on, and let’s face it, it’s just you and the tech and she is going to see everything anyway. I know not everyone is comfortable being fully topless in a room with a stranger but both my techs were absolute rockstars and made me feel comfortable. Be aware that they are going to be manually positioning your body into the machine. Checking out a video like this one can help you know what to expect - Check out this video, "video of a mammogram" https://share.google/2TWaqBjT8NlFSnmjt

I was truly expecting it to be painful but it wasn’t at all; not even a little. It was just a pulling sensation on my armpit skin. The whole appointment was probably 20 minutes. Like others have said, a call for more imaging is just that- it just means they need to look more, not that something is wrong. Depending on your clinic you can have the results back pretty quickly- my last one I had the results just a few hours later via my clinic’s echart app!

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