I haven’t been doing so well in the pretty department. I’ve had these patches of eczema on my neck and near my ear like forever and I haven’t really felt prompted to go to the doctor to fix them. They’ve gotten kinda bad. I used to use this prescription steroid cream that stared with an FL, had about 24,000 letters in between and ended with an NE, but I’m hesitant to request it again. That stuff was magical — seriously, crack for my skin — but it’s a steroid, so won’t it make my neck bulk up like the Terminator and give me an Austrian accent?

I realized that I’m probably all flarin’ up due to stress. I learned that I internalize my stress after working as a reporter in Arizona. My co-workers would curse and shout and cry every time they had a big deadline, and I could totally empathize, but I never showed my own stress that way. Instead, there’d be these waves of doubt and worry crashing through my insides, which I would try to calm through snacks. Oh yeah, I’ve been eating a lot of snacks lately. Stress is making me uggo!