Summary
Today we check in with Nerdette book club regular Heather Havrilesky. She also writes the Ask Polly advice column for New York magazine, so she gives us another perspective on how everyone's doing out there. And of course, we hear from a bunch of you, too, which is quickly becoming the best part of this show.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events. I mean I'm still glad it's |
| 0:16.1 | Friday but I'm not sure exactly why. From W be easy Chicago this is |
| 0:22.3 | Nurdad I'm Greta Johnson it is Friday |
| 0:24.4 | March 20th and by now you know exactly where I am still sitting on the floor of |
| 0:30.1 | my bedroom closet this is another edition of Nurdett's Introverts Guide to the Good Life. |
| 0:36.0 | Earlier this week we spent some time talking about the importance of calling your people. |
| 0:41.0 | And if you've listened to much Nurdett in the past you already |
| 0:44.4 | know Heather Heather Haverleski she is one of my Nurdett Book Club buddies. |
| 0:47.8 | If you're like wait Nurdat Club, what on earth is that? I could use a |
| 0:55.2 | podcast book club right about now. Well, you are in luck. We're all reading a book |
| 1:00.8 | a month together and then we're talking about it. Heather is a |
| 1:03.2 | panelist for this month's book which is the Glass Hotel by Emily St. John |
| 1:07.3 | Mandel. I'm going to give you all the deeds you need to know right after I talk |
| 1:11.0 | with Heather. Heather, how are you? |
| 1:17.0 | Hello, Greta. |
| 1:18.0 | I am so good. |
| 1:21.0 | Heather also just happens to write the Ask Polly advice column for New York magazine. |
| 1:26.5 | I call her on Skype this morning because I've been noticing that her tweets have been getting |
| 1:32.0 | increasingly intense over the last couple weeks and I |
| 1:35.2 | thought it was worth just kind of seeing how she's doing. |
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