WEEK'S DEAR JOHN LETTER!
Dear John,
I recently finished a Ph.D. program and was fortunate enough to have a tuition waiver. I ended up going a little into credit card debt but paid it off and have been saving. My wife was also in a Ph.D. program but dropped out when it was time to write a thesis. She said she thought about it for a long time but never discussed it with me. I found out when she asked if I’d be willing to become a domestic partner so she could get my health insurance. I’ve been saving for years for a down payment on a house. I’ve asked if she can help, and she’s said she needs to pay down $30,000 in credit card bills. Up until a few months ago, she kept assuring me they were almost done. Then, I found out that she is not $30k in debt. She's $300,000 in debt. We’ve been together for three years and she never told me. She says she didn’t know the amount and wasn’t hiding anything from me. Somehow, that makes me feel even worse. We currently split the rent, and she’s made a few poor decisions, like when she had issues due to a toxic work environment and wanted to quit before getting a new job. We both have good jobs, and she has a plan and is sticking with it. However, I don’t know if I’m comfortable having joint ownership of a home if I make the down payment myself. I may also end up just getting the loan by myself for a better interest rate, as I’ve got an excellent credit rating, for now. She says if I make the down payment, she’ll pay more of the mortgage until we’ve contributed equally, but that doesn’t seem like it will work out anytime soon. I feel like I’d rather just get it by myself and have the house in my name, but I don’t know how to have that conversation. What should I do?
Signed
Hopeful Homeowner
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I don’t know about you, but I sure could go for a nap today. Actually, I’m good with a nap ANY day, but according to a survey, Wednesdays are the most popular day to take a daytime snooze. A new poll of 2,000 US adults found that more than a quarter (26%) can’t get through the workweek without getting a nap in at some point. Peak nap time for tired workers strikes at 9:39am, and 65% say the urge to nap strikes sometime before 12noon — and most commonly on a Wednesday. 40% of workers say it takes about 3-5 hours into a workday before they start to “need” a nap, and 26% have decided not to fight it – and have brought a pillow to work with them. Outside of work, the most-common events that people said they’ve missed because they were napping were…
• a sports game (30%)
• meeting up with friends (28%)
• a birthday party (28%)
• a family dinner (28%)
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It could be that we’re all headed back to “The Office”. A decade after the hit mockumentary sitcom came to an end, and following years of revival rumors, a reboot of The Office is reportedly in the works, with original showrunner Greg Daniels set to return. Although it hasn’t been announced, a Puck News report said it will be among a number of projects that will be announced once the Writers Guild of America strike ends. A “tentative agreement” was announced on Sunday night. It is unclear if any of the original cast members would return for the reboot.
“Saturday Night Live” is expected to get in pretty much a full season after the writers and the studios reached an agreement to end the strike. The NBC show had Season 48 cut short by 3 episodes when writers walked out at the beginning of May. Now, it’s being reported that SNL which traditionally restarts at the end of September or beginning of October, is now likely to return either October 7 or 14, pending a vote by the WGA.
Today is Global James Bond Day. 007’s iconic name was almost completely different, says a new book. According to “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” MI6 superspy ‘James Bond’ was nearly called ‘Rodney’. That surprising revelation was discovered in author Ian Fleming’s old papers that the book’s writer Nicholas Shakespeare was given access to. Rodney Bond, it turns out, was a real person who saved the life of Fleming’s brother Peter in 1941.
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The National Hockey League is trying to grow its game with a big push down under. It featured its first-ever games played in the Southern Hemisphere over the weekend, with 2 pre-season tilts between the LA Kings and Arizona Coyotes, played in Melbourne. In addition, the league is expanding its street hockey program to Australia – where it’s common to see the game of cricket played in parks and on quiet roads. The NHL’s street-hockey program is aimed at 6-16-year-olds, and has been used successfully in non-traditional hockey markets such as Las Vegas, Nashville and Tampa. If popular in the Melbourne area, the street hockey program will be expanded across the country next year. And if you think this idea is odd, consider this: Hockey actually has a 100-year history in the country, and its semi-pro Australian Ice Hockey League has 10 teams, made up of a lot of expatriate and some former pro players.
Here’s what you REALLY want: Paris Fashion Week is on, and one of the buzziest items hitting the runway is Italian designer Marni’s “big foot 2.0”—a tennis shoe so bloated, it looks like it comes with its own air compressor. Big foot 2.0 is part of the “clowncore” fashion movement that’s grown in popularity recently, like the big red boots that were spotted on Doja Cat and Lil Nas X. A lot of looks in the Paris haute couture fashion shows earlier this year also referenced clowns and harlequins. LINK: https://tinyurl.com/3kdpjkd2
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✓ Sex is biochemically no different from eating large quantities of chocolate.
✓ There is no specific time zone at the South Pole.
✓ The average person walks 75,000 miles (120,000 KM) in a lifetime (5 times round the world).
✓ Bacon was used to make explosives during World War II.
✓ Rice paper does not have any rice in it.
✓ Until 2015, it was illegal to dance in Japan after midnight.
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Hasbro has unveiled the first-ever Nerf-themed land at Beto Carrero World theme park in Brazil, set to open on Oct.12. Nerf Mania is a 14,000-square-meter attraction, featuring family-friendly rides, a themed restaurant and a Nerf shop. Experiences include Nerf Arcade, the Super Soaker Splash aquatic attraction, and Spin Blast Adventure disc ride. Beto Carrero World is the largest theme park in Latin America.
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FUNNIEST TWEETS OF THE WEEK FROM WOMEN:
⇒ People who camp are like, “But camping is so much fun!” and then tell you a story about how they had to fight a raccoon at 2 AM. — Jessie
⇒ fascinated that anyone in their 20s could have a home decor style beyond “this was free on marketplace”, “this was my grandma’s” or “I live near an outlet mall and checked daily for a year until a couch was marked under $500” — emily
⇒ “I’m not high-maintenance am I?” I ask my boyfriend, as we walk into the third grocery store in search of the exact brand of water I like – Ginny Hogan
⇒ IKEA is the most expensive escape room — Midge
⇒ i told my dad about my breakup and he was like ‘the clash broke up, too’ – Jamie Loftus
⇒ Characters in books always have “piercing” blue eyes. I want to read a book where someone has “dull” blue eyes. — Lindsay
⇒ life with astigmatism is more romantic because every light is a twinkle light — delia
⇒ there are two types of grandmas. regular grandma and cigarette grandmas. and u can tell when somebody was raised by a cigarette grandma – noemmeG
⇒ yeh i’ll get up soon i just need to look at the internet first. yes the whole thing – Beth McColl
⇒ i love when apple is like “we are going to install updates tonight when you are sleeping” and when you wake up they’re just like “couldn’t do it! you slept weird and we couldn’t do it!” – Claire Lower
⇒ my job? nfl team graphic designer. my mission? to make a bird look as mean as possible — molly mary o’brien
⇒ Who says women can’t have it all? I have depression, anxiety, mom guilt, an extra 15 lbs, debt, angst, terrible taste, and a soul-crushing busy schedule! You can definitely do it too – mean things I say to myself
⇒ At bedtime I ceremonially move the claw clip from my hair to the bag of chips, signifying the end of the day. – Spooky Leggy Pain
⇒ I had day surgery today and they were like “don’t make any important decisions in the next 24 hours bc you might not remember them.” But I had to go grocery shopping. Later Morgan was like “you bought … so much … cheese.” – Kate Beaton
⇒ i think if u have a really (messed) up dream you should be allowed to call off work. i just watched my mother get attacked by a tiger and you expect me to hop on a zoom meeting rn — Cait
⇒ actually the real monster is the person who goes out of their way to correct you that Frankenstein was the doctor’s name – stoned cold fox
⇒ i don’t want to “heal” my inner child, i want to “give her a big sword” – Meg
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