This. Grieving for myself and so proud of myself for where I’ve gotten and now I can support younger people going through it.

This is why I read novels. Especially historical fiction.

Left.

Yeah that doesn’t make sense to me. It’s definitely more packed. Are people not paying?

That can’t be true, really?

Oh nice! So Monday 11/10 at the Ivy? I have lived here for ten+ years and still never been to the Ivy. Probably for that exact reason (kids).

Yes. I’ve been thinking of The Banality of Evil. This too.

What if we tell the president he’ll get the Nobel Peace Prize if he gives Americans universal healthcare?

I used to wonder and then I read The Midnight Library. Now I’m completely at peace with where I am.

There are loved ones in my life who are unhappy due to others’ lack of gratitude. I am so literal/rational I just can’t see why someone’s happiness would depend on another person’s gratitude toward them!

Exactly! I was like “well son, that’s the ol’ chicken or the egg conundrum.”

Yes! Mine once asked, “if a woman has to be pregnant in order to have a child then who was the first person?” at bedtime.

The new Jeff Tweedy triple album: Twilight Override. It’s quite nice.

OMG I never thought of it this way. It’s SUCH a burden. But now it all makes sense. I once asked my therapist if there were meds that would help me not see, hear, taste, smell, and feel things so much more strongly than others. My therapist said, no but there are meds that will help you not ‘care.’

My friend calls it “turtling.”

The most I do is (if it startled me) say: “oh wow that’s loud!” in an air-head-y voice. And sometimes they at least turn the volume down.

I had to get used to the loud video watching. When I’m on the 2,3,4,5,6 to the Bronx the videos start playing as soon as we’re above ground. I now call it “Bronxin’ Out” when people watch loud videos in public.

The weed thing is really problematic for me when I’m on the NJT. I’m often on my way to tutor in peoples’ homes and I’m worried I’m going to come in smelling like it. Do you think the smell transfers to my clothing etc?

Hollow Spaces by Victor Suthammanont