Happy Friday. I hope you are excited for the weekend! Enjoy these links about enjoyable yet worrying things to do.

I think that Whimpering Pines Retreat sounds fine and normal, no increase in worry or anxiety from reading this at all:

Beside your potentially insect-ridden bed, you’ll find a number of additional anti-sleep aids. Relaxation tapes include […] “Workplace Faux Pas,” and “Why Did You Say That Thing That Time?” For a small additional fee, the Center can arrange to have your ex text you “How’s it going?” at 2 A.M., and then follow up a few minutes later with, “Sorry, wrong number.” As a final courtesy, the ceiling fan directly above your pillow rotates in a jittery manner that appears slightly unsafe.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/whimpering-pines-retreat-for-the-truly-neurotic

If you like both women and medieval warfare, you came to the right news source! Please let me know if you want to watch some jousting this summer. It sounds horrifying but if you want to joust competitively, that glass ceiling is now broken. Many thanks to the friends and subscribers who sent me this:

Dutch jouster Alix van Zijl will also bring her A-game against some dude knights at Castle Bolsover and Castle Carisbrooke. Previously, van Zijl was the only lady jouster in competitions like The Grand Tournament in Sankt Wendel. In a 2012 Jousting Life interview, she said of being the lone female knight at a male-dominated tournament, “As long as one is safe and does a good job, has the right attitude and has a good armour, one is welcome. That is the way it should be.”

http://www.themarysue.com/heck-yeah-summer-of-jousting/

Alex.