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@schemingreader replied to your post: I woke up this morning to a photo my friend sent...

I haven’t been on here in a while and I am so so so excited to see a post from you mentioning a chosson! Mazel tov. Yes!

Pretty much every post now lol, since Tu B’Av when we got engaged. Thank you!

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butterflyslinky replied to your post “Answers About Pizza”

I order Pizza Hut solely because I can get it without cheese; if I could still eat cheese, I'd definitely prefer Dominoe's

I can get Domino’s, but I hate the “flavorized” crust on their regular pizza, which tastes like tinfoil to me. And you can’t really order it no-flavor, like, you can try putting “NO TERRIBLE GARLIC GREASE” in the notes but they will usually still add it in, there’s no “no flavor” checkbox. 

So when I order from them I usually order the pan style, and that’s a flip of a coin as to whether the middle of the pizza will be raw dough (or, if you ask them to cook it well-done, whether it will just be straight-up burned). And again it’s that $4 delivery fee, which because that doesn’t go to the driver really means an $8 delivery fee....

I still risk it once in a while, but these days every time I think about ordering domino’s it’s like “Is it worth risking $8 on top of the cost of the food?”

niennanir replied to your post “Answers About Pizza”

I have to ask, how do you need a car to get a little ceasars? because the last time I bought them on the regular I picked them up on my bicycle.

Several obstacles intervened :D For one, I’m not terribly comfortable riding my bike on the street in Chicago; I’ve seen too many heinous accidents because Chicago drivers just straight-up don’t give a shit who else is on the road, so I stick to parks and trails when I ride. Also, I don’t ride outside if the weather is below 45F. 

But mostly it’s because until recently, the closest Little Caesars was a 12 mile round trip. Which is doable, but not really pleasant. Balancing a pizza on the handlebars isn’t something I’m into, and it’d be cold by the time it arrived anyway. Plus like...I like Little Caesars but it’s not worth a 12 mile bike ride in urban Chicago. If I’m not going to get it brought to me hot, it’s not really a good ROI for me. 

Recently one opened up at 31st and somethingorother, which is much closer, but the food would still be cold by the time I got home.  

beaubete replied to your post “Answers About Pizza”

So Art of Pizza is decent? They're forever and always advertising at my place, but if I hold out someone at work will eventually order Beggar's for their team and have leftovers, so I haven't purchased pizza in months. I need to branch out from "places I've tried before" and "free" as my only two sources.

Eh, they’re okay -- tastier than just “edible”, but nothing to write home about. I’ve only had the pan, and I’ve never ordered a full pie fresh, so maybe it’s better when it’s not a heatlamp slice. The one I go to just opened in the loop and everyone is SUPER STOKED because apparently Art of Pizza is a Big Fucking Deal in some areas, but I’m not sure why. 

schemingreader replied to your post “Answers About Pizza”

My boyfriend needs a super low sodium diet, so I've been making pizza at home more lately. It's not difficult and you could make some that is better.

I don’t care for homemade pizza -- if you use skim mozzarella then the cheese is fine, but the sauce always tastes weird to me, and usually the crust is pretty foul too, unless you make a proper yeast crust, which is a pain in the ass. Obvs. if you have special dietary needs it’s the way to go, but I’ll usually just buy a frozen one, it’s less work and marginally more edible. 

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I’m working on a history project on the founders of my school, a group of five young women in the 1880s.  Several of the founders had long-term intimate connections with each other (lived together, shared financial resources, shared a bedroom/bed, and wrote each other passionate letters).  Each of the historians I’m reading tries to clearly articulate that this doesn’t mean they were lesbians because we can’t know if they were having sex.  One even goes so far as to say that although we know that they “kissed passionately,” we don’t know if “her physical expressions of lovemaking with Mary (or with Mamie) included genital contact.”

Is it just me, or is there something weird about these historians’ preoccupations with the extent/existence of their sexual intercourse?  I understand that it’s important to recognize that they may not have understood themselves as lesbians and that passionate love between friends was commonly expressed in the late nineteenth century, but why is the litmus test for being lesbians where or not they had sex?  And why is the litmus test of sex genital contact?  Can someone help me think this through before I meet with my colleagues tomorrow?

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schemingreader replied to your post: There’s a thread in a Facebook group where someone...

This is an interesting question! Is there a point in the shidduch dating process when people talk about getting tested for Tay-Sachs? I think you don’t reveal your debts until you’re down to the nitty-gritty & nearly ready to get engaged, right? I didn’t do shidduch dating but I did do a Jewish divorce with a guy who didn’t want to tell me about his student loan debt until we’d been married for a few years. Yikes. Do not do that.

In my circles, you almost always check Dor Yeshorim before even meeting for the first time (which tells you if both of you are carriers for any of the same recessive genetic diseases included in its tests). The only times I haven’t done that were (a) when I was waiting for my DY results to be processed, I went out on 1 date in the meantime, and (b) when I went out with a ger with no Jewish genetic background (i.e. only 25% of the DNA between the 2 of us was Ashkenazi, so...chances of both being carriers for any of the same Ashkie diseases were pretty minimal).

Yeah, I’d say debt is a later-in-the-game-but-definitely-before-engagement discussion. Kenina hara I personally don’t currently have any debt, so this specific issue isn’t one I’ve had to think about when exactly to bring it up. But I’d be pretty darn upset if I only found out after getting engaged/married that the guy had significant debt.

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schemingreader replied to your post: Disobedience PSA

I didn’t know that when I read the book, yet I would have guessed that from trying to read the book. Also, having attempted to read the book (I got through most of it?) I wouldn’t see the movie.

I’m not enormously surprised to hear that.

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just-ann-now replied to your post

“Rec me books, O Friends! I’m in the mood for sci-fi, preferably of the...”

I was going to say Karen Traviss's "West'har Wars" series, starting with "City of Pearl", but then I saw the 'light and fluffy' part of your requirement, which these are not. But worldbuilding, oh wow! And fascinating alien species, oh wow! I picked up "City of Pearl" on a whim, and seriously, I do not know why these books are not more well known and loved.

That does sound good, thank you! I’ll keep it in mind for the future; I’m not always in a fluffy mood.

schemingreader replied to your post “Rec me books, O Friends! I’m in the mood for sci-fi, preferably of the...”

I don't know you, but it sounds like you would enjoy Ann Leckie's Ancillary trilogy. I like to call it space anthropology--very clever and complex world building. Her most recent stand-alone book Provenance was also good--same universe but different planets.

No worries, I accept recs from anyone! :D I’ve heard a lot of good things about the Ancillary books, but I’d thought it was a very serious, philosophically-inclined series, and less fun adventure. But I have been meaning to read them, and now I can bump them up my list!

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schemingreader replied to your post: new haircut![[MOR]

I love your face. <3

oh, thank you

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good vibes and all the love in the world, darling! you'll do wonderfully, i know it!

THANK YOU ALL--these messages got me through the last week+ and things went really well! and now i’m done!! well, except for my thesis abstract, but that’s no big :) 

thank you for the love and support; you’re all amazing and i can’t wait to catch up now that there’s actual time in the world!