New Hot Hobby: Howling At The Moon On The Reg. And Macrame.
Good morning, fabulous humans! May your day be easy, your coffee extra caffeinated, and your superyacht free to travel to whichever port it pleases.
TO THE INTERNET!
Be prepared to scream: a survey commissioned by a digital editing aid “found that men prefer women with poor grammar and, strangely, are slightly less drawn to well-written profiles”. So to those of you who commented on the wee quip in Tuesday’s Missive, my friends, pretty sure THIS is actually why I’m single, because my OKCupid profile is a self-deprecating Shakespearean masterpiece. And I don’t want no scrubs, if scrubs in this context means someone who can’t handle me correcting “their/they’re/there” in texts. (Yahoo Style)
Presented without comment, but with absolute dread as to what the next decade will hold: After Roe’s Repeal, CVS Told Pharmacists to Withhold Certain Prescriptions (TNR) J/K, my comment is:
A reminder: methinks former Trump admin officials going on (Content Warning, because OOF it’s bad) racist, sexist, conspiratorial Telegram rants after speaking to the January 6 committee probably indicates some kind of guilt about something and that the committee is not messing around, but I am most definitely not a lawyer, so what do I know… (AccountableGOP and CNN)
In a society that imbues physical fitness with a twisted implied morality—if you are a certain type of fit, you are therefore more disciplined or harder working or more focused or, well, better, as opposed to someone that has the time or education or capital or genetics to attain a determined physical standard—the pandemic magnified those rifts. Over on her Instagram stories, Casey Johnston of Ask A Swole Woman has been sharing her process in getting back to lifting after having COVID, and in discussing her struggles, also linked to her April 2020 piece on that guilt of not being as physically active as we once were, a helpful overview of all of the factors that go into fitness. And yes, I am sharing this because of my own post-second-COVID struggles to get back on the mat, and while it may not be early 2020, it sure feels like we’re still in a societal maelstrom.
And finally, I got the first three questions wrong on this quiz and now I’m pretty sure I have to give my ultra-aggressive editing pen back: Do Your Grammar And Punctuation Skills Measure Up Against A BuzzFeed News Copy Editor? To my colleagues who’ve suffered the indignity of an Amy comment stating “Passive voice, please adjust”, I apologize (also, see above).
You’re lovely. Drink some water, get outside for a bit, and be kind to yourself, won’t you?
xoxo Amy