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The following is an excerpt from our new book, “When’s Happy Hour?

It’s been a weird summer.

As long as Refinery29 keeps recruiting socialites to write about their budgeting woes for their Money Diaries segment, we will keep flaunting the finances of our freelancers to remind the world what suffering really looks like.

File this one under: devastating self-owns.

We’ve all been in a long-term, possibly too codependent relationship with the media, and with that comes plenty of ups and downs.

Photo courtesy of NBC.com This week’s episode of This Is Us confirmed a couple of things for me: 1) This Is Us functions very effectively as a long-form PSA for appropriate use of birth control and 2) I’m a psychic genius, because I pitched this story before even WATCHING Tuesday’s episode in which, yep, we get a pregnant Chrissy Metz.

Whether you have a long and shitty commute, don’t know what to do with your time after work, or are just trying to pretend you have friends, you should start listening to podcasts.