Pho delivery near me

I was supposed to have 2 packages sent to me today. They dropped off one and the other was marked as to be sent to a pickup location in a sketchy looking shop the next day. I did not give authorization for the pickup location. They just randomly changed it to that shop after not delivering it. They also delivered one of the packages but not the other. I am now out 6 dollars because I had to change the location to a safer place and could not select my house for delivery.

Weird one this to be honest.
My girlfriend used to be skinny a few years back. She used to go clubbing, have an active social life and so on. Then she had a notable surgery on her back, decided not to go clubbing or anything anymore, and gained some weight. All of this stuff happened when I didn't know her.
I've been with her nearly a year. She's never been anywhere near overweight, always a healthy weight, just a bit heavier than her very skinny past. She mentioned how she wants to lose weight once or twice, and in the last month or so has lost 6kg. For some reason this makes me feel insecure. I fear that she'll start getting hit on even more and start clubbing again. I don't know why this even makes me insecure. She always says she loves me and I have no reason to doubt this. So I don't know why I take her making herself healthier as a bad thing. Thoughts and any possible advice?
TL;DR: girlfriend losing weight makes me insecure. Looking to get over it

I just spent nearly 2 hours filling out an application for a dog only to get an email back about 10 minutes after saying “we don’t adopt out of state” because I put down that I would be moving out of state in a few months for work.
I’m so annoyed. I checked their website and there is NOTHING on it that says they don’t adopt out of state. I’m a great dog owner- I’ve moved all over with my past and present dogs, take them on special camping and hiking trips, buy them all kinds of different enrichment toys, make sure I have the best people watching them when I leave, give them all the vet care they need- but no. How dare I move for a job.
I’m just so frustrated. My late dog and current dog were both rescues and I am trying to rescue again. I specifically want a Pomeranian, which I know is tricky to rescue, but I am actively trying to adopt over going to a breeder but man! This is the fourth rescue I’ve been turned away from. Two applications I never heard back from and the other didn’t want to adopt out to me because I have a big dog.
I’m just upset. I wouldn’t have spent two hours of my time writing a detailed report on how I knew it was time to put my last dog down if I knew I was going to be denied that quickly. There are better things I could have done with my time.
It’s just so frustrating. I think I’m going to contact a (reputable) breeder and go that route instead.
Just feeling super bummed. I thought that now, because I have owned two dogs on my own and am a childless millennial who just scored a new job I’d be a great candidate but no.

36F here. I’m going to an out of town wedding in August. This was a fairly fast-planned wedding and the couple just gave me and everyone else all the details and accommodation info. The wedding is going to be at a lovely beach venue near a super nice hotel where they have a block of rooms for their guests.
Our friend group is all coupled up except me and our other friend, A. Well A immediately said to me, upon getting the official wedding details/booking info, “Sweet, you and I can share a room.” I love A, but I am honestly not interested in sharing a room with her. It is truly nothing personal. There are only a handful of people I would ever want to share a room with, and these are friends from childhood, who are like sisters to me. I also have some other long term friends I am super comfortable traveling with but I do not feel quite the same about A. A and I have been friends for about 3 years.
I guess I feel like at 36 years old, we are a bit past that phase of bunking up just for the sake of it. I do that enough with my friends that I mentioned above when we travel. We’ve been doing that for years and we know each other so well but I am not trying to get to know someone else’s hotel habits at this age. Even if we have separate beds, I truly just want my own space to relax and get ready in.
Plus, I recently got a big promotion at work and am making really good money that I can actually afford a nice hotel weekend on. A I think does fine money wise but I know she wants to share a room to cut down on costs, which I totally understand, yet I do not feel like that is my problem or business to worry about. Although it does make me feel immediately guilty as there is no one else she would be able to share with. I don’t think it’s all about the money though- she tends to try and cling on to me a bit and is the type of person to try and gently trap me into plans (for example, we could literally be out to dinner together and she will already try to set up our next two outings within that week). I say all of this because I know I wouldn’t have a good or relaxing time with her right there in the room. And damn I am such a fuddy duddy but I sure do love my alone and decompression time.
Is is unreasonable of me to want my own hotel room? AITA?

Hello again, wonderful people! First of all, I just want to provide a summary for the new readers... This journal is meant to keep me accountable while I'm on my journey of healing and self-improvement. I must get out of a really deep hole, and I feel this is a great step. I can't promise that reading this will be interesting or fun, just real. That said, let's begin. Today was (mostly) a MASSIVE W. I woke up around 6 am (pretty early for me) and with more energy than usual. I suspect it is because I went to bed early too. I then did a 10-minute meditation and went to college. There, I managed to focus completely on getting some projects done. Blocking social media played a HUGE role in this. I feel like I entered a "flow state" where I was super focused on what I was doing. When the class was about to finish, a group of classmates invited me to a park. Normally, I'd come up with an excuse to avoid socializing, but I was brave and accepted the invitation. I went to the park with them after class, and this situation is where I feel the importance of doing this because I knew that going there would be a great addition to today's journal. In the park, I had a great time. I avoided using my phone and tried to be present. I played volleyball with my classmates (although I suck at it, lol) and I also had the courage to go and try to dance "salsa" with them. It was some silly dance just to laugh among ourselves, but normally, I don't do that kind of stuff as I'm too shy. In the park, there was a group of guys playing cool music, and I had the courage to go and ask them about their socials (after overthinking for 10 minutes) as I really liked what they were singing. I think they were improvising and came up with a REALLY good song on the spot. After that, I went to eat Pho with a friend. I feel like this is important because he used to invite me to a lot of stuff, and 90% of the time, I declined due to my shyness. I was feeling like I was slowly losing a friendship, so today I invited him to eat, and we had a good conversation for about an hour (pro tip: never eat spicy soup while you have the flu; it'll make you cough like crazy). Then, I came home. I was really tired but feeling great. I watched the extra time of the UEL final in my room and I realized how quickly my mood changes sometimes. I got kinda annoyed because the team that I was rooting for lost the match, lol. But it is not a big deal, just a sudden mood drop. Anyway, after that, I cooked rice and meat for the rest of the week, and while doing that, I talked with my friend and roommate - which is good because the past couple of weeks, I was isolating myself and trying to not engage in a conversation for too long. But today, I managed to talk to her, and we had a good conversation. Overall, today was a great day. Engaging in physical activities and being surrounded by people really feels like a big improvement. See you guys tomorrow! Thank you for reading.
-D

There’s no question that “fascism” and “fascist” are incredibly loaded terms that are thrown around way too much and often by those who have no idea what they actually mean.
It’s important to have calm, civil discussions and name-calling doesn’t help that. I understand that political polarization is horrible these days and we all want to tone down the anger, vitriol and hyperbole. But what about when it's not hyperbole?
Name-calling and baseless accusations shouldn’t be happening. But is there a point at which we need to recognize and identify something like fascism as it's happening, even though it’s been misused as a loaded attack line in the past?
To many familiar with it as a historical ideology and movement, the modern Republican Party and overall right-wing political movement in America is looking frighteningly familiar to the established, textbook definitions of fascism.
The parallels are clear. It seems to me that many consider the fascism label as hyperbolic or dismiss it is because most people have no idea what fascism actually entails.
The most common view of fascism seems to be as a synonym for "authoritarian" or as a form of vague, general oppression. While fascist movements and regimes are largely authoritarian, most authoritarian movements/regimes are not fascist. Fascism is a specific worldview consisting of several core tenets and attributes -- authoritarianism is just one of those.
Fascism involves the following core elements coming together (sources linked at the bottom):

• Celebration of and pre-occupation with a mythic, idealized past: There was once a time when the country and its society was at its peak and everything was more closely aligned with how it is "supposed" to be.
  • To fascists, society has since strayed far from that idealized, mythic past (something most often blamed on the left/progressivism).
  • A key aspect of a fascist movement is the battle to return society to that mythic ideal.
• Pre-occupation with tradition and traditional hierarchy: Modernity and progressive values and behavior, along with openness to multiculturalism and feminism, has ruined society and tarnished the country's core "true" identity. Fascism calls for a return to traditional behavior, values, culture and morality.
  • This includes a deeply set hierarchy aligned with what's existed throughout history: Where men of a certain stock are once again the main drivers of society and culture. Others take their "natural" place further down the hierarchy.
• Deep nationalism and "othering" of designated out-groups: The country's inherent greatness stems from its traditional or "original" culture and, values and hierarchy. The nation is the greatest on Earth and there are strict definitions on who are true members of that nation. Immigration dilutes the nation's culture and (therefore) its greatness.
  • There are clearly defined in-groups (those who align with the nation's traditional "true"’ national culture and beliefs, along with fascists' political beliefs) and out-groups (those of different cultures, beliefs and values).
• Pre-occupation with a battle against out-groups depicted as posing an existential, apocalyptic threat to the nation and its society: A key mobilizer for fascists is a righteous battle against out-groups depicted as viciously wanting to destroy the nation and all that is held dear. Since the stakes of this battle are set so high, nearly every action, tactic or approach can be justified, tolerated and excused in efforts to defeat this enemy and keep them from power. Some common out-groups for fascists:
  • Communists and communism: Always identified by fascists as one of these enemies – and the Communist label is often given indiscriminately to the wider progressive movement and those who disagree with the fascists.
  • People expressing/supporting non-traditional gender identity and sexuality
  • Intellectuals and academic experts
  • Certain religions and ethnic groups
• Obsession with strength, disdain for weakness and view of most everything as a zero-sum game (ie: if one side gains something, then another side loses something): For fascists, power and righteousness stem from strength (and accompanying violence, if need be). Strength is needed to restore the proper state of society and stamp out any impediments to this essential work.
  • Tolerance of others, openness/embrace of differences/multiculturalism or overtly intellectual/nuanced beliefs and actions are seen as weakness. Progressivism is seen as weakness personified.

It’s hard to miss the prominence and presence of these things in today’s political right. Given that, is it not justified to use the term fascism, if it aligns?
That's not to say that the right's embrace of fascism is a deliberate, conscious thing. They'd never identify as fascists and it's not like they studied fascism and are purposefully emulating it.
It seems more that fascism’s tenets and worldview tend to become popular and appealing to people when a nation is faced with a certain set of conditions. Right now, it appears as if that is happening here.
Am I missing something?
Sources:

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Common-characteristics-of-fascist-movements
• https://www.keene.edu/academics/cchgs/resources/presentation-materials/characteristics-and-appeal-of-fascism/download/
• https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

Hello again, wonderful people! First of all, I just want to provide a summary for the new readers... This journal is meant to keep me accountable while I'm on my journey of healing and self-improvement. I must get out of a really deep hole, and I feel this is a great step. I can't promise that reading this will be interesting or fun, just real. That said, let's begin. Today was (mostly) a MASSIVE W. I woke up around 6 am (pretty early for me) and with more energy than usual. I suspect it is because I went to bed early too. I then did a 10-minute meditation and went to college. There, I managed to focus completely on getting some projects done. Blocking social media played a HUGE role in this. I feel like I entered a "flow state" where I was super focused on what I was doing. When the class was about to finish, a group of classmates invited me to a park. Normally, I'd come up with an excuse to avoid socializing, but I was brave and accepted the invitation. I went to the park with them after class, and this situation is where I feel the importance of doing this because I knew that going there would be a great addition to today's journal. In the park, I had a great time. I avoided using my phone and tried to be present. I played volleyball with my classmates (although I suck at it, lol) and I also had the courage to go and try to dance "salsa" with them. It was some silly dance just to laugh among ourselves, but normally, I don't do that kind of stuff as I'm too shy. In the park, there was a group of guys playing cool music, and I had the courage to go and ask them about their socials (after overthinking for 10 minutes) as I really liked what they were singing. I think they were improvising and came up with a REALLY good song on the spot. After that, I went to eat Pho with a friend. I feel like this is important because he used to invite me to a lot of stuff, and 90% of the time, I declined due to my shyness. I was feeling like I was slowly losing a friendship, so today I invited him to eat, and we had a good conversation for about an hour (pro tip: never eat spicy soup while you have the flu; it'll make you cough like crazy). Then, I came home. I was really tired but feeling great. I watched the extra time of the UEL final in my room and I realized how quickly my mood changes sometimes. I got kinda annoyed because the team that I was rooting for lost the match, lol. But it is not a big deal, just a sudden mood drop. Anyway, after that, I cooked rice and meat for the rest of the week, and while doing that, I talked with my friend and roommate - which is good because the past couple of weeks, I was isolating myself and trying to not engage in a conversation for too long. But today, I managed to talk to her, and we had a good conversation. Overall, today was a great day. Engaging in physical activities and being surrounded by people really feels like a big improvement. See you guys tomorrow! Thank you for reading.
-D

I'm old - nearly 50. And, my heart is broken. Old people get broken hearts too. And, I am here on this subreddit bc I agree with the principles of no contact: to figure out how to be a better person in the long run. But, that said, old people are also human beings.
It has been nearly 9 months since the break up. He has said zero to me since then. I have texted him a couple of times and sent him a hand written letter (I'm old, did I say that?) Still nothing from him. Not that great at no contact, am I? He has a lot to work through, and I suspect that he is deep in therapy trying to figure a lot out. He's made choices. I've made choices. I'm deep in therapy too. Old people have just had more time to fuck more shit up. Simple as that.
But, here's the good part about being old. I don't feel ashamed that I reached out to him. I don't feel ashamed that some of what I wrote and said was my process of processing my heartbreak - even if he thought I was a pathetic loser and laughed and hit delete all while fucking 6 other better looking women than me. I don't feel shame. Fuck 'em. I needed to do what I did. I'm human. I am hurt - hell, I WAS devastated - and, part of processing it was also realizing, acknowledging and then apologizing for my part in whatever it was that I did - or didn't do. I think I even told him once that I changed my mind and didn't want to break up early on there. Still - no shame. Also, no reply from him.
I fully embrace the principles of no contact - like I said above, but I also fully embrace that I am - and you are - a fucking HUMAN BEING who hurts and who needs to soothe and who deserves grace and definitely NOT SHAME when it feels to impossible to maintain no contact. And then break no contact.
But, please listen from a mom and a damn near geriatric: NOBODY here, is bad or wrong or weak or stupid if they break no contact. If they feel like no contact isn't for them, or painful or setting you up for failure, you are not wrong or bad. We are humans who hurt and who make choices, some days, just to survive the next 5 minutes. We fuck up, and that's the most human thing in the world to do. We cry over stupid shit and we also lock and load over things that we never thought we'd be able to survive. It's the messy and beautiful part of being a feeling creature. Hating no contact, failing no contact, wallowing in no contact. None of it is wrong. As I tell my son, the only thing that could be wrong about our feelings is if we hurt other people or ourselves because of them.
I just want you all to have a bit of perspective from someone whose been around. It feels super balls to the wall, no contact does. And, if that's how you need to see it, perfect. Sometimes, if you don't frame it that way, it becomes a slippery slope. We all need to set boundaries. But, in the big picture, it's a way for a highly fallible, mistake-prone human being to try to cope with one of the shittiest situations in all of human being history. You're just coping. And, some days are better than others. And some days are straight shit. And, even on those shitty days, when you write a 7 paragraph long email to your ex-love and hit "send", YOU ARE NOT A BAD OR SHITTY OR WEAK OR PATHETIC PERSON!!!!! You are the same damn human being you were yesterday - still mainly awesome.
So, if you read this and go take a shot and break no contact, you are still the same person you were 5 minutes ago just trying to get through the fucking day. Honey, we ALL are. You are not alone!
Do not making a shitty situation shittier than it is by JUDGING YOURSELF on your ability to maintain no contact! Judge yourself by how compassionate you are willing to be towards a human who is doing the very best damn job they can under crap circumstances.

In the global epidemic, the economy is shrinking, the employment rate is low, the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine hired Yan Limeng as the hospital staff, this non-racist, non-discriminatory for Asian employees to provide jobs behavior, reflects the college's fraternity, equality. But the Perelman School of Medicine in the hiring of like-minded employees, it is time to consider the maintenance of campus cleanliness as the first task, reject Yan Limeng on stage to join the medical school.
Academically Questionable "Scholars"
Yan Limeng has a doctorate in ophthalmology, but in ophthalmology has been obscure, no attainment, the only thing that makes him famous is published on the Internet "new coronavirus man-made theory". Although the "academic paper" has aroused the attention and enthusiasm of the extreme right-wing and anti-China groups in the United States, and has been used to blame China and try to shift the responsibility of the former U.S. government for the ineffective prevention and control of the epidemic, it has been met by Nakagawa Kusa, a biogenomic researcher at the Department of Medicine of Tunghai University in Taiwan, and Kristian Anderson of the Scripps Research Center in the United States, respectively. However, they were challenged by experts and scholars such as Kristian Andersen of the Scripps Research Center and others in the New York Times, National Geographic, and other media or social media platforms, while Chinese dissident Fang Zhouzi published a direct article "Refuting the Conspiracy Theory of "New Coronavirus Man-Made"" and Columbia University virologist Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, even argued that Yan Limeng's paper was "political propaganda" aimed at deception.
Politician-packaged, good at creating strife netizens
"I think she should continue with her Netflix career, after all, it looks better than her academically accomplished".
"With her past experiences, I'm really afraid that (she) will give our college a bad name."
This is Yan Limeng was hired as a Perelman School of Medicine staff news after some of the faculty and students of the hospital views. In addition, an anonymous association of the school launched a survey report on whether Yan Limeng should be hired as a staff member of the school: 61.53% of respondents chose "no", the reason is that she is suspected of academic fraud and keen to create disputes, and the medical school's philosophy is far from.
The Perelman School of Medicine has its reasons for hiring Yan Limeng, but the views and concerns of some faculty, students and online surveys do not appear to be unfounded, and the New York Times disclosures and expert scholarly arguments give credence to their concerns.
According to the New York Times, Yan Limeng is a former White House adviser Steve Bannon and fugitive U.S. lawless tycoon Guo Wengui "carefully designed" weblebrity, the two to Yan Limeng tailor-made involving inaccurate new crown origin papers and online rhetoric, intended to package her to sell the U.S. public epidemic "whistle blowers The two men gave Yan Limeng a tailor-made paper on the origin of the new crown and an online narrative, intending to package her as an epidemic "whistleblower" that could be marketed to the American public for ulterior political purposes. University of Washington biology professors Carl Bergstrom and Kevin Bode found that Yan Limeng's papers were based on research by the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation, both of which are run by Both were founded by Guo Wengui's partner Bannon.
Yan Limeng in the former U.S. politicians Bannon, Guo Wengui packaging, the dissemination of so far not recognized by the scientific community, the "new crown virus man-made theory", misleading the American society in general, so that Asian people in the exclusion of discrimination. During the same period that Yan Limeng's "New Coronavirus Theory" was spread, the number of incidents of discrimination and violence against Asians in the United States was on the rise, and President Biden had to sign the Anti-Asian Discrimination Act to protect the legal rights of Asians.
In addition, Yan Limeng in order to obtain greater benefits, directly to the webcast explosive attack Guo Wengui's "rule of law fund" suspected of fraud to absorb the powder, and finally led to Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui turned against each other, Guo Wengui launched a legal action against Limeng.
Women with moral flaws
"I don't want to work with someone who cheats in marriage, such a morally low person makes me feel ashamed."
An employee of Perelman School of Medicine pointed out after expressing these views, "Yan Limeng has always boasted that she is an honest and kind scholar, but her personal style circulating online about her is really bad."
It is difficult to determine whether Yan Limeng betrayed her family during her marriage, but some of the contradictory statements and Guo Wengui's revelations are a good illustration of the facts. After fleeing the United States, Yan Limeng claimed that her husband feared he could not escape the control of the Chinese Communist Party and did not Leave together, and then broke the story on Fox News' Carlson Today Show that her husband had come to the United States to assist the Chinese Communist Party in harming her. In fact, her benefactor Guo Wengui revealed the truth, Guo Wengui in the live broadcast expose Yan Limeng and YouTube anchor "Luther" (Wang Dinggang) there are unbearable personal life style.
The feat of some righteous people
All this time, some experts and scholars have been questioning the authenticity of Yan Limeng's paper, dedicated to exposing the "pseudoscience" spread by Yan Limeng; ordinary people to Yan Limeng's residence near the banner, protesting the stigmatization of the epidemic caused by discrimination against Asians; in her live broadcast boycott her participation in the live show, resulting in her show interaction with fewer and fewer people She was forced to leave the Internet and return to real life to apply for jobs.
However, justice advocates do not want Yan Limeng to go into hiding and continue to spread false information about the new crown outbreak. Guo Wengui found out Yan Limeng's current address: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104) through the FBI agent's connection, Some members of the "New China Federation" started a campaign to "maintain the clean campus and reject Yan Limeng's entry into Perelman Medical" on the telegram， calls on people who love freedom and uphold the "Rule of Law Foundation," especially members of the "New China Federation. On March 21, Yan Limeng's address near the banner to protest Yan Limeng false new crown theory, reveal Yan Limeng and YouTube anchor "Luther" (Wang Dinggang) affair, the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine campus to protect the clean land.

I'm about thirty pages into this but wanted to share the opening passage to gauge opinions on tone and style!
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I was honked at nine times on the drive from Verona to Venice.
The beat-up old Beetle I borrowed from the Parkers putters along like a cartoon junker. She was a powder blue distant memory of a car, born in the Sixties, but she was cute enough and served a purpose.
It was warmer than I’d hoped it’d be, but, with the windows down, there was enough of a breeze to provide some relief. Even still, I was sweating. I was also, truth be told, a few glasses of wine into my day, which, in conjunction with warm weather and the lopsided, silly, sputtering of an old car, can trigger a headache.
By 11:00 AM, I’d managed to park on Tronchetto Island at the Venice Passenger Terminal. Right when I opened the car door and stepped out the headache began to subside. I grabbed what little luggage I brought and took the vaporetto to Piazza San Marco.
On my trip into the heart of Venice, I sketched the faces of the various passengers aboard the vaporetto, the tourists and residents of the city of islands. There were some interesting faces and shapes, and so many couples with arms and hands touching that I was able to sketch a scene of a crowd resembling the knotted roots of a tree.
Il Palazzo was my destination. A budget hotel with a view of the Rialto Bridge.
My phone was dead when we disembarked from the vaporetto and so I bugged someone for directions to the hotel every block. My poor command of Italian meant I was asking things like, “è l’albergo Il Palazzo dove?” No one knew where it was.
As I searched for the hotel, streets opened up before me. Charming trattorias, intimate and rustic, little shops selling wines I’ll never sip, spices and jams, olive oils and vinegars I’ll never cook with. Each corner broke forth, luring me deeper into the city. Still, I was agitated and no amount of charm could temper me.
After meandering around Venice for the better part of an hour, I eventually found the place. I was sticky, leaning into melodrama, feeling oppressed by the infamous Venetian humidity. Summer in Venice, a sultry delight if you have the means.
The hotel was rundown with a shabby façade, a disconcerting sight given the state I was in. It gave me the impression of a building longing to collapse, if not under the weight of embarrassment regarding its appearance then simply to save anyone the misfortune of having to sleep inside. Nevertheless, I was assured a room with a view of the Rialto Bridge.
“Mi scusi,” I said to the concierge upon entering. He was short and thin, his shoulders slouched inward, his demeanor confused. “Checking in.”
“In?”
“Yes, checking in.”
“Checking in, si,” he said and then he began scuttling around behind the front desk, shuffling many papers, looking under binders, but not doing much of anything.
“I was told I would have a view of the Rialto Bridge,” I said. “Is it a good view?”
“Who knows?” He said, still scuttling.
“No, I was told that. I was told, and that’s why I picked this hotel, for the view.”
“Who knows?”
“I thought I knew, but clearly . . .”
“Clearly,” he said, producing a key from a drawer.
“I wish I knew how well you understood me so I could decide how upset I should be.”
At that moment, an elderly coupled descended the stairs and entered the lobby. They seemed to have four arms each, carrying two pieces of luggage in every available hand and yet they appeared unbothered.
“There are no views of the Rialto,” the old woman said.
“What?” I asked.
“There are no views of the Rialto Bridge, not here,” she said. “It’s an advertising scam.”
“A scam.”
“It’s a bait and switch. Bait, Rialto, switch, a dirty courtyard view and a very loud family on the other side who yell.”
“They yell?”
“All night,” she said. “We’re checking out, Marco.”
“Si, Signora Preston,” the concierge said, spinning in place and remaining befuddled.
“You seem familiar with the place,” I said.
“Oh, we always stay at the Il Palazzo,” the old woman said, producing another arm in order to light a cigarette.
“Even with the yelling?”
“What?” Her husband barked.
“She asked why we stay here,” she shouted back through a fog of smoke. “We wear hearing aids, we can always turn them off. We’re checking out, Marco.”
“Si, Signora Preston,” Marco said, staring blankly at the three of us.
“And checking in, for me, checking in for Fern Guess,” I said.
“Si, yes,” Marco said handing me the key. “Camera tre.”
“Enjoy your stay,” the old woman said. “Marco, out, checking out. We are checking out!”
“Thank you,” I said as I gathered my luggage and shuffled up the stairs, unsure who I was thanking and for what reason.
The room was abysmal: the bed visibly sagged in the middle, nearly touching the floor, the shower was exposed in the corner, no curtain, no complimentary toiletries, and I could faintly make out the sound of dripping water, as if from a leak, and yet, upon searching the room, I found no leak. What’s more, it seemed the moment I shut my door I could hear the family yelling, their frustration resounding throughout the courtyard before settling in my room. The headache had returned.
I’m often accused of histrionics but, in truth, the deceptively named Il Palazzo is as tragic and repellent a place as any miserable accommodation one might imagine. For the rest of my life, I’ll associate the words “il” and “palazzo” with images of a sickly palace – the ill palazzo. That I managed to make my way in and out of the room without acquiring a rash was little more than serendipity. With places like Il Palazzo, it’s all a game of exposure. The longer you’re there, the higher the likelihood you’ll walk away with a tick or fleas or bedbugs. Even more likely, given the sordid conditions, you’re likely to acquire an admirer twice your age and short on English words that, when strung together, don’t form come-ons. Fortunately, business is so bad for Il Palazzo that I was left only to worry about the diseases and insects, not even sex pests were dumb enough to book a room at Marco’s hotel. What all this says about me is obvious and need not be stated.
A bit wounded, I snuck down the stairs with my sketchbook and tried to avoid making eye contact with Marco.

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Hi thereee! Im looking for someone to talk at the moment, and I hope we click! I love to cook, watching movies (horror, documentaries, action, sci-fi). Im 25 simple girl, from USA (people near me, hope to know you more) I am more of a homebody person, I dont want crowded places and noisy places too. If you are interested, send me message that is something from you or maybe just the reason why you message me. Im trying to find someone new here that are exciting and funny enough to talk to. Thanks for reading this. Cant wait to know your whereabouts!

I’ve been going to my hairdresser since I was a kid. She keeps my hair a nice shade of ginger since it started darkening in my teens. I know she’s super against box dye and makes a big deal if you pull a diy. She got on my case right after the pandemic about it.
I had a family crisis of my FIL fell at work, ended up getting a blood clot, having a heart attack, go into hospice and die. This wasn’t a fast or kind death but took almost 4 months. During this time I used box dye and a color deposit conditioner to keep my hair fresh looking.
I finally returned to my hairdresser and she berated me for using box dye. I’m not in the mood of the emotional wreck I have been in and rip off my cape and tell her fine she doesn’t have to do my hair and she can go f herself. I leave the appointment after having nothing done.
She tried calling and I ignored her. The salon manager called and asked me to come back calling it a miscommunication on my stylist fault and I said no.
My kids both teens said I’m acting like a Karen I told them they’re plenty of salons near me and from now on I’m just dying my hair myself and just going in for cuts.
My daughter still thinks I should apologize for cussing out the stylist and salon owner but I feel like she crossed the line treating me like I was a criminal for using box dye.

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The lessons inside Iman Gadzhi - Agency Incubator course include:
1. Foundations
2. Mindset
3. Systems & Processes
4. Finding Leads and Setting Meetings
5. Sales
6. Service Delivery
7. Operational Supremacy…
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I have Iman Gadzhi - Agency Incubator.
Iman Gadzhi – Agency Incubator course is one of the best products on how to start a marketing agency.
Over the span of 20+ hours, Agency Incubator has training that covers EVERY aspect of building an agency. This is almost a plug & play system with enough success stories to back it up! You name it... signing clients, running killer Facebook ads, building out your team, on-boarding clients, invoicing, sales... this course has everything covered for you!
The lessons inside Iman Gadzhi - Agency Incubator course include:
1. Foundations
2. Mindset
3. Systems & Processes
4. Finding Leads and Setting Meetings
5. Sales
6. Service Delivery
7. Operational Supremacy…
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So this past week my mother's sister confided in me and my eldest sister that my father sexually abused her when she was little. My parents were already married and she was the last of 6 kids so she was pretty young as my mother is the oldest. My father our entire lives has been extremely emotionally and verbally abusive. He's a raging narcissist. She has held it in for nearly 40 years because she never wanted my mother to be taken from her and she felt no one would believe her. It has severely affected her life. In every aspect. She has never not felt guilty and disgusting.
I was honestly, not shocked by the news. Truthfully my dad is such an awful person anyway. To me, an abuser is an abuser and as awful as it sounds, I don't put anything past them.
We just told my mother tonight and shes obviously devastated. For a moment she tried to defend my dad because she's just wired that way. He's constantly manipulating her into his way of thinking. But she knows how he is and when he's not with her, she unloads on us. Which itself is kind of an issue. We've mothered her our whole lives. She's attempted 3 times. Has issues with medications and has severe depression.
I told spoke with her alone after we vaguely told her and continued to tell her she is ALWAYS welcome here with us and we will always go get her. They live out in the country about 40 minutes away. I told her we're all, including my aunt, only worried about her. She's our main concern. I told her to please keep me updated tonight by texting me and that she's not alone. That if she feels stuck, she's never stuck. We'll always support her. She didn't say much other then that she would text me and that she was fine.
I'm so worried about her attempting again or what he's gonna tell her. I know it's not on me anymore. She's an adult who can decide how she's gonna proceed. It's something I'm working out in therapy. But idk I think I just needed to get it out and maybe get some advice?

I'm going to leave my personal interests and hobbies till the end and instead going to describe a bit about myself and my thoughts first to provide readers with a bit of insight as to where I come from and how I see/operate.
I consider myself to be quite introspective and more often than not find myself to be quite different from other folks, but at the same time I can't decide for myself if I'm the odd one or if they are. I've never understood concepts of popularity, clout, class structure, surrounding yourself with as many people as possible, and all that. I've seen and experienced it, but never something I'd consider myself. I questioned whether if I was asexual throughout my life because I never seemed to desire finding a partner like my friends and peers but I've always been been interested in romance and all that despite not having any real initiative. I'm glad to have had a relationship before and honestly speaking it was healthy and devoid of toxic, but I was personally not in the right mind and ended it out of confusion and for "soul" searching, only to end up in a more questionable state. Since then I wondered if I'd find romance again during Uni and quite frankly those years just flew by with me trying to have minimal interaction with my peers and aiming for the bare minimum. I don't want to call it a regret but for all my life I truly believed in your stereotypical romance discovery and happily ever after nonsense, I mean who wouldn't, it sounds so convenient. Fast forward to today and while I can say that I've accepted my loneliness, societal and peer pressure has been rough on keeping these feelings contained.
So what would most people say/do? Go get it then. Well, yes, but no at the same time. Wants and desires aside, my question is HOW? I'm still that minimal interaction, content with loneliness individual. I still have the same young desires of finding true love and whatnot, but those years of being alone definitely took a toll on my mental and emotional strength, it's not just as simple as "putting myself out there" as others would say, that's honestly not what I want and how I wish for things to play out. We're complicated creatures, despite describing myself as a pretty simple guy, we all have our own egos and desires behind our personalities and it's hard to break our cycle. So that brings me here in hopes of searching for someone that understands this, someone's solution might not work for another.
This isn't a post asking for advice, it's more of a "here this is how I operate and think, do you UNDERSTAND me" kind of thing. I know the answer and conclusion, but I don't know the in-betweens and the only way to achieve that is to discover it with someone together. I don't consider myself to be picky, but without understanding and honesty I just can't even start in the first place. I don't mind being wrong 99 times as long as I get it right once.
I'm not a selfish or entitled individual, if anything I value individualism and strong morals above all. But at the same time I'm not a charity case where I can focus on the happiness of others. I strongly believe in the concept that everyone is dealing with something and the best way out of it is to find the answer yourself. This doesn't mean that it's wrong to ask for help, as a matter of fact REACHING out for help yourself and reaching that conclusion yourself can be the right steps to take. I don't believe in helping others unless they ask for it, and that doesn't mean giving things when people ask for it, no, more like okay I'll help you seek your answer but you must find it yourself still. Why? Because the best lessons and achievements I can reflect on are the ones I found myself, it's what makes the character, otherwise you're just copying and pasting what and how you should live based on others, and that's not your own happiness.
I guess you could say I'm pretty oldschool/boomer thinking and yeah I'd agree. I'm horribly stubborn on some things but also very open minded about others. I accept that things will always change whether we like it or not, but I'm also able to cherish things I value myself. I believe in discipline and sticking with your beliefs, but being open minded enough where you can admit your wrongs to become a better person.
If you made it this far and think to yourself, wow you're literally me, awesome, I'm glad someone else exists but what you do with it is up to you. I'm putting myself out here because I've given up on waiting in the real world, as a matter of fact I never really tried, but I realized that part of the world already left without me so this is my next best guess on where to find people that may share my sort of thinking and values.
Now what the f do I do with my time? I am extremely grateful that I'm introverted and actually enjoy doing things alone or else I probably would have lost my mind by now. Shoutout to all the early 2000s and 2010 anime for being there for me when I needed it most during my uni days, nowhere near as big of a watcher today but I do like to rewatch certified hood classics and whatever seems to be interesting today, I guess the discovery phase is over. Been a gamer my whole life so I have some strong opinions about the state of the garbage that's being released today, but I have been enjoying the crap out of the new Zelda game so there's still hope in the industry despite nintendo being a heaping POS. Pretty casual about music now, I could do without it most of the time but I still find myself listening to 80s-2000s hiphop, OSTs, indie, and whatever sounds good to me. Feel too old and lazy to follow all the latest tech but I do enjoy it in general, I like minmaxing products and always prefer quality over cost whenever I do decide to spend. Lately been getting into watches but I seem to be able to appreciate mechanical things made with precision. Giga car nut, I'll just leave it at that since I can talk for years about it.
Will laugh at and ignore bots and people that say one or two words expecting a response. Not interested in anything that's not local/semi-local, sorry I guess