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The Toast : The Final Link Roundup!

Sun, 3 Jul 2016 13:30:10 +0000

My plan is for this to be my final comment on the-toast,because I am replying to the most perfect summary ever of the-toast. I have loved you all. I miss you all. The-toast is dead,long live the-toast.

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 05:48:25 +0000

I miss you already!! 💛 :insert custom toastslack emoji here:

The Toast : Thank You, Toast.

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 05:32:05 +0000

Nikki, I just want to thank you for everything you have done for the-toast but particularly for writing about your family(s). My family does not look like your family; my parenting-within-this-culture worries are not the same worries that you have written about. But I have never read anyone who wrote about my particular worries, and reading what you had to say — about parenting, about race, about being different from others around you, about the underspoken truths about the way we make our families — has helped me so much, in my insides, in my own process of being the parent I hope my kid deserves. I can't let this week go by without telling you that. Thank you infinitely for your generosity in writing and sharing these things with us.

The Toast : Cocktail Hour: Open Thread

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:02:20 +0000

I used to just sing my two cats' names very loudly to the tune of the US theme song to "The Office." Just their names. Over and over again. After the first one died (an old lady, a long life) the first time "The Office" came on, I wept harder than the day she actually died.

The Toast : Daily Meditation: Everything's Okay With Jacques Pepin

Thu, 9 Jun 2016 00:36:55 +0000

it took me an unusually long time to read the memoir because I had to use his voice in my brain to pronounce every word.

The Toast : Daily Meditation: Everything's Okay With Jacques Pepin

Thu, 9 Jun 2016 00:35:44 +0000

I actually like her a lot! She is bad fucking ass. I keep rooting for her to leave her husband,he is 100% complaining and foodsplaining 100% of the time.

The Toast : An Update To Wikipedia's "List of people who disappeared mysteriously"

Wed, 8 Jun 2016 00:38:39 +0000

I have MANY THOUGHTS about it and my YA partner in crime is still MID BOOK and I have no one with whom to discuss itttttttt

The Toast : Oz: An Ode To Love

Tue, 7 Jun 2016 10:17:56 +0000

I have a picture of my kid at maybe 10 days old that I took because my wife said "OMG he looks like Adebisi, take a picture before the hat falls off"

The Toast : Dear Businesslady: Advice on Boredom and Benefits

Wed, 18 May 2016 03:02:59 +0000

Oh! Thank you! It's been a while since this happened so I had forgotten the correct time parameters

The Toast : Dear Businesslady: Advice on Boredom and Benefits

Tue, 17 May 2016 12:28:17 +0000

LW2, here is something I learned about COBRA when I found out the job-I-was-leaving cut my benefits before my end date, and I had a gap until new-job had me covered. You can sign up for COBRA any time in the first six months of leaving your old insurance. And they don't care what happens to you before you sign up. So hypothetically: you don't sign up for COBRA. Then your kid breaks an arm or something. You can sign up for COBRA even *after* you seek care, and it is retroactive to the date you lost your other coverage. You have to pay for the interceding months, but I think this is a reasonable gamble to take. I took this gamble! It turned out I only needed to use COBRA for dental, and I paid for like 4 months of coverage, but I was able to avoid paying for medical because my family didn't need any unforeseen care.

The Toast : Dress Codes for All Party Time Occasions: A Comic

Mon, 9 May 2016 20:24:47 +0000

Somehow I misread one of these as "Deep Sea Oxymoron Cocktail."

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Mon, 9 May 2016 18:54:03 +0000

You're an O'Neill drama! You're Whistler's mama! You're CAMEMBERT!!!!!
(FWIW I have yet to work up the courage to just ... slide that into casual conversation.)

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Mon, 9 May 2016 18:39:02 +0000

Same teacher (male, very kind, not very well-educated tbh) had never read ANY James Joyce, up to and including Dubliners. This was AP English, my inner still-bitter still-snarky teenage self compels me to tell you.

The Toast : If LeVar Burton and Yo-Yo Ma Were Your Dads

Mon, 9 May 2016 18:13:06 +0000

YESSS I am in your debt, kind person.

The Toast : If LeVar Burton and Yo-Yo Ma Were Your Dads

Mon, 9 May 2016 17:29:24 +0000

Also, speaking of Calming Influences from My Childhood: does anyone remember the name of the show where the white guy with the impressive mustache would read a story while illustrating it with charcoal and pastels? With the somewhat obv follow-up question: where can I find this online because I really need to ~~watch it compulsively at work to cheer myself up~~ share it with this 5yo I live with.

The Toast : If LeVar Burton and Yo-Yo Ma Were Your Dads

Mon, 9 May 2016 17:26:55 +0000

No, you guys, I mean it, this is the single most beautiful thing I have ever read. I might want this read at my memorial service, so that all the (presumably millions of) mourners who will obviously be there to rend their garments: will instead be filled with peace and hope and an unquenchable desire to be kind to all who cross their paths.

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Mon, 9 May 2016 17:21:02 +0000

... a song I often, really embarrassingly frequently often, sing to my kid and/or just quote at him. E.g. \"Thanks for this beautiful drawing of these flowers. You're the top! You're the Colisseum!\"

The Toast : Link Roundup!

Mon, 9 May 2016 16:41:02 +0000

Same title, no acknowledgment of source; the teacher had never heard of Flannery O'Connor.

The Toast : If LeVar Burton and Yo-Yo Ma Were Your Dads

Mon, 9 May 2016 16:29:42 +0000

Usually when I read "If X Were Your Y," I am filled with yes, happiness, but also longing, which as we know is the root of suffering. I am currently filled with peace. Only peace.

The Toast : How To Politely Decline A Proposal From The Emperor Of Byzantium

Mon, 9 May 2016 15:13:59 +0000

Bet Kassia wore her sleeves rolled up and leaned suggestively on things a lot.