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  I am a freak who really enjoys linear algebra. It's actually quite heartening to discover that even amongst my friend group of weirdos, there are still freaks

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  Oh my gosh, I can't believe you remembered! Thanks :) (It wasn't my birthday, until I read this post. But now it is, so thank you)

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  Thank you. I love you too

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  This is bending the prompt somewhat, but I was once almost struck by lightning. I was walking home through a park, and based on how soon I had been hearing the thunder after each flash of lightning, the storm was basically right on top of me. I was feeling pretty nervous, and tried to take a route with minimal tall trees, but I was a teenager and didn't know what else to do but to keep heading home All of a sudden, I was filled with a sense of foreboding, and I felt an overwhelming instinct...

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  I would probably step out of the way of the trolley, but I admit that I would hesitate. If you saw my hesitation and if I was doing okay, I would say that I'm doing as well as I can be, under the circumstances. I am fortunate to have good people in my life. When things get to be a lot, connections with people I care about helps keep me grounded. The world often feels so awful that I feel hopeless. I also often feel awful, sometimes due to the world, sometimes due to brain weasels scurrying...

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  Something that I think is grim is that a Jewish friend with family in Israel told me that they strongly suspect that the percentage of Jewish Israelis okay with ethnic cleansing is a fair chunk lower than 82%, but that because the media landscape in Israel is so homogeneous, and there's a lot of social stigma around being anti-genocide, that there are almost certainly people who don't agree with the ethnic cleansing, but say they do due to the pressure of social shaming. She went on to...

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  Vive la France