#kendall x brittney

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Kendall gave a soft, appreciative smile as Britney laid out the takeout menus like she was presenting the holy grail. A flicker of warmth broke through her sadness—it was just like Britney to turn a night of heartbreak into a full-blown comfort session. Taking a deep breath, Kendall finally spoke, the words falling out before she could second-guess herself. "Brit, you’re seriously the best. And honestly, I needed this more than I thought," she admitted, glancing down at the pile of menus as if they held the answer to all her problems. "I just… I can't believe he would do that. Six years together, and he cheats on me. And with my cousin of all people." Kendall’s voice broke a little, and she looked down, swallowing hard. "It’s like a nightmare I keep waking up to." She let out a shaky laugh, trying to lighten the heaviness of it all. “Anyway, yeah. Let’s go with, like, all of the above? I need carbs and grease and anything that won’t judge me for looking like a mess.” She reached out and gave Britney’s arm a squeeze. "Seriously, I don’t know what I’d do without you right now. Super Badass Brit to the rescue, as always." Kendall let out a sigh, feeling the tiniest bit lighter. "And yes, later, we’re absolutely diving into that heavenly hash.

Britney smiled, nodding. "Okay dokey then, but just say the word. I gotcha always. Kung fu Brit or otherwise." She said, giving her a quick side hug. Kendall was on a long list of people she just would drop everything to help her. Whether it was because of a bad breakup or if she needed help.

Britney didn't want to pressure Kendall into talking about the breakup, all she wanted was to cheer her friend up. She hated seeing her so sad, so she was determined to make her feel at least a little better.

She pop up from her chair, reaching for her drawer where all her take out menu's were. "Okay, take out. What are we thinking? Chinese? Fast Food? Poutine? A dozen and so chicken nuggets?" She asked, taking out all the take out menu's she had and laid them out on the kitchen counter. "Oh, that's what I'm here for. You don't have to thank me, I'm just ya know.. me. I want you to feel a little better, but also know it's okay not to be ok ya know? Anyway.. I also have like, a huge tub of heavenly hash ice cream we can dig into later too." She babbled on.

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Met gala 2023: Who is invited and who wore what?

Met Gala 2023: The Met Gala 2023, fashion's biggest night, took place on May 1 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Like every year, the fundraiser event was a star-studded affair, with the best names in fashion, films, sports, politics, and theater dropping by to walk the red carpet in their sartorial ensembles. This year's Met Gala theme was Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty. Here's what the stars wore to the red carpet.

Brittney Griner dressed down in a grey T-shirt, a long matcjing blazer-styled povercoat, and formal trousers. Brittney posed for the cameras in tribute to the iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.

This year's Met Gala 2023 was won by Jared Leto, who dressed as the infamous cat of iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld - Choupette. Here's how he looked as the cat on the red carpet.

Cara Delevingne posed in a plunging white shirt, a dramatic shrug, black leather stockings, and a sleek neck chain as she attended fashion's biggest night this year.

Florence Pugh walked the red carpet in a dramatic gown with a stately white train that was styled on the stairwell.

Kylie Jenner wore a statement gown with one-shoulder detail and a dramatic matching veil on the red carpet, keeping her look minimal and super styish.

Paris Hilton looked stunning in a black sequined leather gown. Her sequined black platform heels stole the show on the red carpet.

This year's Met Gala winner was GIGI Hadid's black gown with see-through mesh details, further embellished in black, and finished with a mesh train.

Margot Robbie wore a black silk gown with corset details, gold embellishment patterns, and a black silk train, which she accessorized with minimal makeup.

Jenna Ortega paid tribute to Karl Lagerfeld in a black victorian gown with gold chain details and an elaborate look.

Lil Nas X posed in silver body paint with a matching face mark embellished in silver.

Kendall Jenner looked stunning on the red carpet in a black sequined monokini with matching trains on both sides.

Alia Bhatt made her Met Gala debut this year, wearing a white gown adorned with 100,000 pearls. She also paid tribute to Karl Lagerfeld's cat Choupette as well as her own cat Edward. "The iconic Chanel brides have always captivated me." Karl Lagerfeld's genius shone through in the most innovative and awe-inspiring couture season after season. "My look tonight was inspired by this, specifically supermodel Claudia Schiffer's 1992 Chanel bridal look," Alia explained. Also Read: Met Gala 2023: All You Need To Know About  Read the full article

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80 Books White People Need to Read

Here’s my next list! All links are now for Barnes and Noble! If you are interested in finding Black-owned bookstores in your area, check out this website: https://aalbc.com/bookstores/list.php ; I also have additional resources regarding Black-owned bookstores on my Instagram (@books_n_cats) if you are interested! As always, please continue to add books to these lists! ((please circulate this one as much as the LGBT one, these books are incredibly important)).

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

Killing Rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forget by Mikki Kendall

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces by Radley Balko

Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People by Ben Crump

The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crime, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement by Matthew Horace and Ron Harris

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Kai Hinton

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

A Promise And A Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism by Becky Thompson

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

Disrupting White Supremacy From Within edited by Jennifer Harvey, Karin Ac. Case and Robin Hawley Gorsline

How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel

Witnessing Whiteness by Shelly Tochluk

Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Derald Wing Sue

Towards the Other America: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter by Chris Crass (be advised, this came out in 2015 and is not up to date with current events obviously)

Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race by Frances Kendall

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identify Politics by George Lipsitz

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving

How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood by Jim Grimsley

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by Tim Wise

Benign Bigotry: The Psychology of Subtle Prejudice by Kristin J. Anderson

America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We Say and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys by Eddie Moore Jr, Ali Michael, and Marguerite Penick-Parks

What White Children Need to Know About Race by Ali Michael

White By Law by Ian Haney Lopez

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South by Howell Raines

Race Matters by Cornel West

American Lynching by Ashraf H.A. Rushdy

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin Kruse

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

Racism Without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics by George Lipsitz

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction by Terrance MacMullan

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century by Amos N. Wilson

The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation by Daina Ramey Berry

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy by Carol Anderson

Antiracism: An Introduction by Alex Zamalin

The Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing by Anneliese A. Singh

Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors

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Nonfiction Book List

A collection of nonfiction books by Black authors and/or related to intersectional race and gender studies, history, as well as other various topics. The list below is a compilation of various lists I have seen on Instagram, as well as research I’ve done on my own. I am sure I am missing important works, and am happy to add anything that is suggested. This list will be regularly added to and updated. 

Race & Anti-Racism

Diangeo, Robin - White Fragility

Eddo-Lodge, Renni - Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Kendi, Ibrahim X. - How to Be Anti-Racist

Mahzarin, Banaji & Greenwald, Anthony - Blindspot

Oluo, Ijeoma - So you want to talk about race

Omi and Winant - Racial Formation in the United States

Rankine, Claudia - Citizen

Roberts, Dorothy - Killing the Black Body

Smith, Andrea - Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy

Sowell, Thomas - Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Waheema & Lubiano - The House that Race Built

Ward, Jesmyn - The Fire This Time

Prison Abolition & the Justice System

Alexander, Michelle - The New Jim Crow

Davis, Angela - Are Prisons Obsolete?

Murakawa, Naomi - The First Civil Right

Stefanic & Delgado - Critical Race Theory: An Introduction

Stevenson, Bryan - Just Mercy

Rothstein, Richard - The Color of Law  

Policing

Vitale, Alex S. - The End of Policing

Intersectional Feminism

Bambara, Toni Cade - The Black Woman, An Anthology

Carruthers, Charlene - Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

Cooper, Brittney - Eloquent Rage

Collins, Patricia Hill - Black Feminist Thought

Collins, Patricia Hill - Black Sexual Politics

Cottom, Tressie McMillan - THICK and Other Essays

Crenshaw, Kimberle - On Intersectionality

Davis, Angela - Women, Race, & Class

Davis, Dána-Ain - Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth

Gay, Roxane - Bad Feminist

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline - Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugivity

Hernandez, Ed. Daisy and Rehman, Bushra - Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism

hooks, bell - Ain’t I a Woman

hooks, bell - All About Love

hooks, bell - Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Jenkins, Morgan - This Will Be My Undoing

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. - They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Kendall, Mikki - Hood Feminism

Lorde, Audre - Sister Outsider

Morales, Rosario - This Bridge Called My Back

Morgan, Joan - When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks it Down

Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́ - The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses

Shakur, Assata - Assata: An Autobiography

Simpson, Leanne Beta - As We Have Always Done

Williamson, Terrion L. - Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life

Wilson & Russell - Divided Sisters

Yamahtta-Taylor, Keeanga - How We Get Free

Masculinity

hooks, bell - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

hooks, bell - We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

History

Asante Jr., M.A. - It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

Baldwin, James - The Fire Next Time

Berry, Daina Ramey & Gross, Kali Nicole - A Black Women’s History of the United States

Gates Jr., Henry Louis - Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Blackmon, Douglas A. - Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Du Bois, W.E.B. - The Souls of Black Folk

Hartman, Saidiya - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Hurston, Zora Neale - Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”

Johnson, E. Patrick - Black, Queer, Southern Women.: An Oral History

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. - They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Kendi, Ibram X. - Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Snorton, C. Riley - Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

Taylor, Candacy A. - Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

Washington, Harriet A. - Medical Apartheid

Wilkerson, Isabel - The Warmth of Other Suns

Zinn, Howard - A People’s History of the United States

Politics/Economy

Anderson, Carol - One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Baptist, Edward E. - The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Psychology

Menakem, Resmaa - My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

Tatum, Beverly Daniel - "Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Literary Criticism

Morrison, Toni - Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Education

hooks, bell - Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Science & Technology

Benjamin, Ruha - Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Skloot, Rebecca - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Shetterly, Margot Lee - Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Autobiography/Memoir

Angelou, Maya - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Bernard, Emily - Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine

Broom, Sarah M. - The Yellow House

Brown, Austin Channing - I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Coates, Ta-Nehisi - The Beautiful Struggle

Coates, Ta-Nehisi - Between the World and Me

Hinton, Anthony Ray - The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

hooks, bell - Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood

Jones, Saeed - How We Fight For Our Lives

Khan-Kullors, Patrisse and Bandele, Asha - When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Laymon, Kiese - Heavy: An American Memoir

Mock, Janet - Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Noah, Trevor - Born a Crime

Obama, Barack - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Obama, Michelle - Becoming

Shakur, Assata - Assata: An Autobiography

Welteroth, Elaine - More Than Enough

Wright, Richard - Black Boy

X, Malcolm - The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Comedy

Bell, W. Kamau - The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian

Haddish, Tiffany - The Last Black Unicorn

Rae, Issa - The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Robinson, Phoebe - You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

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Us, June 22

Cover: Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani getting married

Page 2: Red Carpet -- Lizzo 

Page 4: Who Wore It Best? Nicky Hilton Rothschild vs. Kaia Gerber ✅, Zanna Roberts Rassi vs. Cobie Smulders ✅, Bella Hadid ✅ vs. Naomi Scott 

Page 6: Loose Talk -- Ramy Youssef on Lindsay Lohan ghosting him after signing on for an episode of Ramy, John Boyega on the Black Lives Matter movement, Lili Reinhart coming out following her split with Cole Sprouse, Andy Cohen joking about a photo of son Benjamin gazing into a liquor store, Meghan Markle addressing the fight for racial justice during a surprise virtual commencement speech

Page 8: Contents 

Page 10: Hot Pics -- Prince William delivering food to the elderly with kids Prince George and Princess Charlotte, Hayden Panettiere debuts on Instagram 

Page 11: Dear Class of 2020 virtual graduation event featuring Katy Perry, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Barack and Michelle Obama 

Page 12: 2 Chainz and daughter Heaven, Tiffany Haddish along with civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Eric Garner’s mother Gwen Carr attend the memorial service for George Floyd in Minneapolis, Lucy Hale and her dog Elvis take a moment to hydrate 

Page 13: Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez throw a costumed birthday bash for their twins Eva and Mateo with siblings Cristiano Jr. and Alana, Miranda Lambert joins the CMT Celebrates Our Heroes special honoring frontline workers, Kelly Bensimon 

Page 17: Perfect Match -- these couples complement each other in more ways than one -- Anwar Hadid and Dua Lipa, Amber Stevens and Andrew J. West and daughter Ava, Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley and wife Brittney, Brad Falchuk and Gwyneth Paltrow, Brie Larson and Elijah Allan-Blitz 

Page 18: Stars They’re Just Like Us -- Savannah Guthrie checks her phone, Robin Wright rides her bike

Page 19: Kaia Gerber paints, Tyler the Creator eats healthy, Justin Theroux walks his dog 

Page 20: Stars’ Kids They’re Just Like Us -- Jessie James Decker’s son Even Forrest wears sunscreen, Busy Philipps’ daughter Cricket browses the internet, Reese Witherspoon’s son Tennessee works from home, Hilaria and Alec Baldwin’s son Romeo reads, Evan Ross and daughter Jagger brush their teeth 

Page 22: Hot Hollywood -- Shortly after Lea Michele shared her public support for the Black Lives Matter movement her former Glee costar Samantha Marie Ware accused her of mistreatment on set and intimated it was racially motivated -- since then former costars have come out of the woodwork to share stories on Michele’s diva-like behavior and she lost her job as a spokeswoman for HelloFresh 

Page 23: Max Ehrich has already started designing an engagement ring for Demi Lovato, Ryan Seacrest is as strong as ever following an on-air health scare and there’s no truth to the rumor he’s leaving Live With Kelly and Ryan 

Page 24: A Day in the Life At-Home Edition -- Bobby Berk 

Page 25: United We Stand -- stars show support for the Black Lives Matter movement -- Jennifer Aniston, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kanye West 

Page 26: Cover Story -- nearly five years later Gwen Stefani is finally ready to say I Do to Blake Shelton 

Page 30: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s 24-year romance is fit for a love song -- their daughter Maggie McGraw says why 

Page 34: Hollywood’s Mini Moguls -- Beyonce and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s daughter Emme Muniz, DJ Khaled’s son Asahd 

Page 35: Kylie Jenner’s daughter Stormi, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter North West, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Zahara Jolie-Pitt 

Page 36: Style -- show your PRIDE -- Billy Porter in Christian Siriano 

Page 38: Beauty -- Jennifer Lopez’s nail secrets revealed 

Page 40: Summer TV Time 

Page 46: Fashion Police -- neon green edition -- H.E.R., Kendall Jenner, Tana Mongeau 

Page 47: Farrah Abraham, Lil Nas X, Kylie Minogue 

Page 48: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me -- Katie Stevens 

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Kendall smiled, feeling a warmth spread through her chest at Brittney's words. "You’re a real trip, Britt," she said, nudging her playfully. "I don’t think you need to fight anyone for me just yet, but it’s good to know you’ve got my back." She paused, considering Brittney’s offer. If Ken was being honest, her recent break up was actually perfect timing. She noticed how distance he's been getting lately and it's understandable, she wasn't ready for marriage, and he was. "Honestly, I could really go for eating my feelings right now," Kendall admitted with a small laugh. "Maybe we order something unhealthy and just chill? No heavy talks, just us and whatever food makes this day a little less terrible." She looked at Brittney, her smile softening. "Thanks, though. For being you."

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"Ya know, you are the most dazzling person I've ever met? Anybody that says otherwise I'll fight. I mean it too. You think I may not have a bad bone in my body, but when anybody I care about is hurt, that changes. I am bad to the bone." Britney said with a grin, only wanting to cheer the other up.

"Ooo and if you don't wanna talk about it right now, we don't have to. We can just order in and eat our feelings. What do ya think?"