hate to say it as it's so charmless but SAD lamp + vitamin D every morning does genuinely seem to help

Yes!

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just sent a French friend a couple of voice notes as she asked me for life news and have just realised that the one I sent about what's been up with me lasts for a minute and a half, meanwhile the one of me trying to convince her to watch the De Gaulle movies is nearly three minutes long

Lads, he’s not someone from a council estate who’s won Britain’s Got Talent

Fear of violence is invisible but operates to reshape the behavior of political figures, like unobservable dark matter gives shape to the structure of the universe. The age of Trump has reintroduced it into American politics, & is arguably transforming it.

fine!

yesterday I had a jambon beurre for lunch and a banh mi for dinner (a rare two 'guettes day) and I am now worried the roof of my mouth will never forgive me

Yesss

Yes this is a very good point!

(again: the ADHD, it's hereditary)

yes! I mean she's had a bazillion careers - trained as a nurse, worked for a travel agency, was a dentist's assistant, cooked for a while, ended up becoming the deputy director of a circus school, taught dancing, etc etc, but her current gig is clothes repairs and tailoring

so so good

(by the way: heads up that if you have a slightly malleable diary, the Institut Francais's cinema in west London does seem to be running both De Gaulle movies on the same day at least for another week) (obviously I cannot recommend doing this enough)

One step closer to the ur-treat, the treat that contains all treats within it

so so so good

100%, I didn't know a lot of it!

non!