I just read something that angered me. What I read is not important, because what pissed me off was the phrase within an email that seems ubiquitous-indeed, I've said it myself. But I'm tired of it. I'm going to stop using it, and I implore you, I BEG of you to erase this phrase from your mind. Or at least erase the connotations you have with it.

Ready?

The phrase is "real life."

"I can't write/podcast/draw/compose because real life gets in the way."

We've equated "real" to mean "mundane" and "borin