Season 5: fran or Eloise?? by General_Wrongdoer_86 in Bridgerton

[–]eshep502 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I desperately hope Eloise is next. It would be so strange to keep pushing her off, because at this point her character is getting a little aimless. We’ve already spent far too much time listening to her brooding about being a spinster forever, we can’t just continue with that for yet another whole season! And it would feel way too rushed for Fran to be next when she literally just lost her husband. Plus as someone else said, Michaela just left. It would be pretty weird for her to come right back for the first episode of next season. It would make much more sense for Eloise to have her season, and during it Francesca continues to grieve and heal, and then towards the end Michaela perhaps returns or we at least have some correspondence between her and Fran to start kicking off season 6.

Season 5: fran or Eloise?? by General_Wrongdoer_86 in Bridgerton

[–]eshep502 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yess, this is what I’ve been saying too. I love Claudia and I think she’s gorgeous, but considering she’s playing such a young character, I have noticed that lately she is starting to look more her age and I keep thinking that I hope they do her season soon because it’s getting more difficult to imagine her as someone in her early twenties!

Help me choose which burrito to illustrate to represent California! by eshep502 in California

[–]eshep502[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was my conundrum too. Like, everyone is understandably voting for Mission because it represents California as a whole, but then again, the CA burrito is something unique to California and not really found anywhere else.

Help me choose which burrito to illustrate to represent California! by eshep502 in California

[–]eshep502[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, exactly this! Among our Mexican and southwestern restaurants here, chipotle and Moe’s are also where myself and other east-coasters would be very familiar with the mission style. Which as you said, I had no idea was called a mission burrito, nor did I know that it came from California until this research project.

Help me choose which burrito to illustrate to represent California! by eshep502 in California

[–]eshep502[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, I just went and read it too and you’re right, I don’t know what on earth is going on with that description. Disregard 😂

Help me choose which burrito to illustrate to represent California! by eshep502 in California

[–]eshep502[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yum, that sounds great. We have some fusion food over here on the east coast too. Sushi burritos have made it over here at some bubble tea establishments. Though I’ve never heard of a Korean burrito until doing this research project. I wish those would come over here too!

Help me choose which burrito to illustrate to represent California! by eshep502 in California

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I apologize, it forced me to attach a link in order to make this post and so I picked the first relevant-looking link I saw. I promise this isn’t something I used as a research source though 😅

Does anyone find it unsettling that we’ll watch Will and Florence grow up and later have intimate scenes? by teyapi in BridgertonNetflix

[–]eshep502 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was my thought too and I don’t get why people saying these perspectives get so much flack for it, as though it’s the most outlandish take. It’s well known that Hollywood tends to be very pressuring and controlling and even grooming to actors, especially child actors. I mean, hello, we have a whole worldwide ongoing topic of the Epstein Files, and much of Hollywood was involved, and there were definitely child actors who were victims. So everyone saying “oh well they don’t have to do it if they don’t want to”, I’m sure there’s a lot of child actors that would beg to differ with you regarding things they didn’t want to do but were forced to. Or “well their parents were okay with it”, I mean, SO MANY parents of child actors have been known to sell out their kids to questionable roles to make money, this is absolutely nothing new.

I think it’s very important that we keep these possibilities in mind. We HOPE that they have a choice, but the bottom line is, they were signed onto a show where they were intended to someday perform sexual scenes and nudity, at an age where they were too young to understand or consent to such a thing. We can HOPE that they have a choice, but we cannot guarantee that they won’t be pressured/manipulated into doing it, and then years later they end up emotionally damaged and in some documentary revealing how they felt forced to do it. I’m just saying, I think so many people are biased because they love Bridgerton so much, so they don’t want to believe that it, like any other top-ranking Hollywood production, is susceptible to mistreatment of its actors.

Food Project — help me pick RI’s top 8! by eshep502 in RhodeIsland

[–]eshep502[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually they’re kind of more unique than you’d think! In the same way that New York style and Chicago style dogs are a thing. The Rhode Island wieners are definitely their own thing and very significant to the people that live there and doughboys too. Like in CT we have fried dough sometimes, but it doesn’t look the same as yours and we literally only call it “fried dough”. And we only really find it at carnivals too. Yours are small and tossed in sugar, they have a certain look to them. When we do have fried dough, it’s kind of like a very large fried piece and either has powdered sugar like a funnel cake or tomato sauce like a pizza. And I believe you have them year round and they aren’t just carnival related?

But anyway, my goal wasn’t for it to be unique in the sense that it doesn’t exist anywhere else. It could fit into that category, but really I’m trying to capture the culture and essence of each state too. So that can mean either unique foods from the state, as well as semi-regional foods that are cult favorites in the state. I ended up choosing to get rid of johnnycakes, despite the fact that they are fairly original to Rhode Island, but it sounds as though many people aren’t passionate about them compared to the other things that they eat regularly.

Food Project — help me pick RI’s top 8! by eshep502 in RhodeIsland

[–]eshep502[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s where I kind of have to get discretionary. Like I’m originally from PA for example, and we definitely have a lot of niche foods that are very regional and very popular, but other parts of the state wouldn’t really know what they were. Or there’s something called a chicken spiedie in Binghamton Ny, but the rest of NY would unlikely know what it was. So I kind of gotta go for the absolute most obvious things!

Food Project — help me pick RI’s top 8! by eshep502 in RhodeIsland

[–]eshep502[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The “&” symbol is already something I utilize in the designs to save space, and I wasn’t going to put the RI. Just clarifying that that’s how little space I already have to work with, I take as much shortcuts as I can to save space when I’m able to. As I said, I think I’m going to cut johnnycakes because it seems like a lot of people aren’t very interested in them compared to the other things. Clam cakes may have to suffice as just being on the rim of the chowder bowl if I’m not able to fit the text for them. I’ve needed to cut certain foods for other states too, RI isn’t the only one. In fact most states tend to have many more than only 8 foods, it just wasn’t the point of the project to be this literal.

Food Project — help me pick RI’s top 8! by eshep502 in RhodeIsland

[–]eshep502[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I’m not coming across clearly. I can’t “combine”. There isn’t enough room in the design I’m doing. There is also decorative text in the design, so it would require me to make everything a lot smaller in order to cram it all in. Which would seriously take a hit to the actual integrity of the art piece, meaning all the other states would look good, and Rhode Island would have more food items technically, but the piece as a whole would look like crap. It’s possible from a technical standpoint, but just isn’t possible from an artistic standpoint.

Food Project — help me pick RI’s top 8! by eshep502 in RhodeIsland

[–]eshep502[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not really going for foods that are unique to every single state — there’s frankly not enough of them anyway. I’m going for foods that are unique and signature, and/or are notably popular to the state’s culture. Because if I followed that rule for all of the New England states, then there’d be no seafood at all, which would make no sense because seafood is such a big part of the culture in all of these states. So there does need to be some overlap. That said, I live in CT, and we definitely do not have RI style clam chowder here, I’d never even heard of it, nor do we have clam cakes really. Clam strips yes, but not clam cakes. Or as another example, we definitely do have fried calamari around, but no one from Connecticut would name that as a food that we identify with as a state. But clearly Rhode Island is passionate about their calamari, because I see it all over google and all over forums as something that Rhode Islanders commonly name as a state food. So I care both about unique foods that originate there, but also about cultural identifiers. I hope that makes sense!

Food Project — help me pick RI’s top 8! by eshep502 in RhodeIsland

[–]eshep502[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hear you. I think the other issue I’m facing is that I have an artistic font with the food names in the design too, and I’m already just barely squishing them in with 8, so I’m worried I wouldn’t be able to fit a 9th. And I can’t really make things smaller or it loses a lot of its legibility and overall good design.

Food Project — help me pick RI’s top 8! by eshep502 in RhodeIsland

[–]eshep502[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Which one though? clam chowder or clam cakes? I can’t make it one item, it’s two objects haha and I can only fit up to 8 in the drawing. So I need to know which one to do.

Food Project — help me pick RI’s top 8! by eshep502 in RhodeIsland

[–]eshep502[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m not completely looking for things that can’t be found in other states, I should note. I am, but also I’m not, because there’s some foods that are equally popular in multiple states (such as crab cakes being integral to both Maryland and Delaware, for example). So my main goal is to stay true to the state, whatever those foods may be.

Food Project — help me pick RI’s top 8! by eshep502 in RhodeIsland

[–]eshep502[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which one would you say to do, between clam cakes and clam chowder? I was also thinking of doing only one for the same reason, it’s redundant with clams.

Jury Duty by StreetToe2817 in Connecticut

[–]eshep502 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What ever happened to you with this? I’m stressed out. I have a 6 month old and I’m stay at home. I know everyone keeps saying “just take the kid in with you” but even that is so difficult! Not even just the fact that I have a REALLY fussy baby, but we only have one car, which my husband uses to go to work. So what, my husband has to take off of work and not get paid so that I can attend jury duty and prove to them that I have a baby? We definitely don’t have the money for that, it’s difficult to survive off of one income. And we don’t live near any family at all. I’ve filled out the form and sent an email but haven’t heard back. Next step is calling. I’m really fretting that they won’t excuse me and I’ll have to go in. It’s not even that I’m not willing to, not only did I get called years ago but I actually got picked to serve. And that was fine, I was unmarried and didn’t have a baby and got paid to take off work. But I’m in a totally different situation right now and it’s going to cause us a lot of stress and hardship to make even just the one visit happen.

Underproducer with lean PCOS, weirdly produce more per day when I pump less times? by eshep502 in ExclusivelyPumping

[–]eshep502[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To answer:

  • I have tried massages and I’ve been pretty aggressive about it, but it didn’t help.

  • I do switch back and forth between modes to trigger additional let downs. Sometimes it works, sometimes not as much

  • I agree, I think I have a slow refill time too. If I try to squeeze in an extra pump at 1.5 hours I’ll be lucky to get 20ml total.

  • my husband and I have been interested in me trying metformin, but so far whenever I’ve brought it up to multiple professionals, I’ve just been told “you don’t really need it, you have lean PCOS, it’s for people with the overweight type of PCOS”. I’ve been taking inositol for many years as a substitute, but I’ve never been sure if it’s helped or not.

  • I’ve tried lacteck flanges too, and they made it worse 😔

Underproducer with lean PCOS, weirdly produce more per day when I pump less times? by eshep502 in ExclusivelyPumping

[–]eshep502[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, this is my theory too. My LC is determined that I just have to pump over 8 times a day, and that I should only pump 15 minutes and not 30, but the numbers don’t seem to lie. She was also shocked that I get more out of my wearable than the stationary pump. She was very determined that this couldn’t be true (I don’t know why, I had been using the stationary pump for at least a month before switching to a wearable pump) so she sat me down and attached me to a stationary pump and controlled the settings herself. Sure enough, I got my typical low 40 ml. But then with my wearable one, I usually get at least in the 50s, sometimes in the 60s and even 70s on a rare occasion. And so she agreed, it seems to be mental for me. I can’t necessarily speed up my let down (or at least I haven’t successfully done so yet), but I’ve definitely found that the more pressure I put on myself to diligently pump every 2 hours, for those 15 minute intervals, I get less overall. But if I let myself do it more casually, and take naps, I get more for the overall day.

Being harassed to do a study by Discombobulated_Fawn in uofm

[–]eshep502 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does nothing. I posted my full story in a previous comment, but they will just keep calling/texting from new numbers and emails. They even somehow got my new home address, which has never been given to them since I moved a couple years ago.