What is better than a cat on a lap? 2 cats on a lap.

Solid day: Got the car & driver’s license both renewed, got some groceries & a matcha, cleaning the loft, got invited to speak at an event for a new book coming out by a colleague at Wash U, the weather is nice. If it were not for the fascism it would feel like a nice normal Friday.

This song is so good. youtu.be/C6uO9V9P2kI?...

I have a lot of work to do. Janie is so snuggled up tho.

idk but I feel like taking away the commissary on military bases or as the drunk former Fox news host now dept of war leader said “getting out of the grocery store business”…. is not going to be well received.

What are we having for lunch? I need some ideas.

Something I think about a lot is how Cori would have been raising hell these past months vs the predictable and very loud silence we have received as a community from Bell.

Doing that thing where I need to eat and nothing sounds good.

But for real, I did tell Arcell to move to NY & train at Ailey over 30 years ago. Now he has traveled the world, has a dance legend for a husband, has a Tony and a Bessie award, and is still the sweetest person I met years ago. What a gift. 💜

Apprently staying out till 1:30am on a Wednesday was not the best idea.. in retrospect.. I am tired asf today. 🤣

I have some dear friends in town from NY & we just had ourselves a time on the roof at Moonrise. I went straight from work at 9 & I just got home. What a wonderful thing to have such friends.

You guys that klan rally/funeral thing Sunday nite sure was something. Definitely need more pyro at funerals. Also the rapture is the next few days so that is cool. And Tylenol causes autism bc a guy w a brain worm said so. Anyway, how are you all doing? Im fine… Im fine… this is fine. 😳😭😳

People are making videos saying they will take care of raptured people’s pets after the rapture for a small deposit of $1000 (non refundable) & their venmo info. 🤣

So apparently the rapture is on Sept 24th 🙄 My tiktok is currently people who are leaving directions for people left behind to take care of their houses (rapture preppers) & people laughing about it & saying to throw your old clothes on the lawn on the 24th so they think they got left behind.

Gonna humble brag, scroll on if u aren’t into that. My friend who won a Tony for Color Purple just texted to lmk he is in town this week & wants to hang out. We met in 1994 in Branson doing the Shoji Tabuchi show. My life has been such a journey lol

Today in I am eating my feelings due to the fascism, I treated my mildly elevated blood pressure to a steak-n-shake value meal. It was delicious.

It is so funny…

My current favorite tiktok trend is “today in orange and jobless” where the creator has a clip of their orange cat doing nothing while the theme of the Young & the Restless plays in the background.

If you need a laugh, this is hilarious. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SHJqn5/

I realize this is niche.. But I feel some kind of way that is complicated bc we have seen the slide with consolidated media since 2015. And now after they fire Kimmel people are “getting” that we werent paranoid? ok.

Hold up… they fired Jimmy Kimmel while I was at work? what the fuck?

I teach homeschooled children on Wed mornings. Im down a teacher due to illness so I combined the preschool dancers with the big kids & we had a very special class today. It was adorable. In these times of chaos we are loving thru, being with kids all the time is such a gift to my life.

My work schedule is like noon-9 pm. I dont normally get to bed till around 2-3am. I got woke up at 7:15am to loud construction on the building. I tried to go back to sleep.. What is reasonable to morning construction. 8am? 9am? 7:15 really pissed me off.

Worth watching if you, like myself, have only recently learned what groyper means. He explains this well. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SkvVJw/

Im up bc of the fire alarm and in a yapping mood. Is 4chan still a thing? I know they talk a lot about something called Discord but what is it? is it like 4chan was in 2015-16ish days? And how are all these guys already multi-millionaires? from a podcast? or posting live streams?

post ‘middle of the night why were the fire alarms going off for 20 minutes’ team meeting. We are discussing the situation. There is a lot of dissatisfaction in my leadership abilities.

Ok we are now in a phase where they are turning the alarms on & off so I guess this is some progress. No way Im going back to bed anytime soon. My poor dog…

After I posted this, the fire alarms in the building started going of and have been steadily for nearly 20 minutes. Some guys in the alley just said the firedept is out front.

15 minutes. I am so overstimulated rn.

Nice to know that the fire dept isnt even here yet. I live about 8 blocks from a station. This is really fucked up.

Whoever set off these alarms I hope you step on legos. I hope you have minor inconveniences everyday. May your account be overdrawn, and your coffee weak. How dare you. 8 solid minutes of beeping. Its so loud. The cats are sleeping, me & the dog are not.

Building fire alarms going off at 3:30 in the morning. cool.. cool.. yea Im just not leaving. I cant smell anything on fire, I have 3 pets, Id have to put on pants.. but I do love this for me. Nothing like loud asf siren sounds in the middle of the night. We are at about 5 minutes so far.

So here is my evening: Talked to the BFF, talked to the other BFF, watched a show about women PI’s who help women who have been swindled by men fight fraud, watched a docu about a woman who killed her DV partner, got curious on X as to why they kept saying “groyper” then looked that up. 😳

idk why bc I should be angered by the censorship.. But the way they fired Dowd and he was right about it is sending meeee 🤣

My efforts to not leave this loft today have been thwarted by my need to get food.

Ive been dropping into some other sites to test the temperature: Facebook. It is giving 2016 pre election vibes. People are arguing, lots of pushed right wing content, someone posted a meme w photos of MLK, JFK, & Kirk saying “they were all killed for what they believe in” 🤦🏻‍♀️ & tbh it the most

I just need to thank all of you & this platform for being rational, grounded, & aware of the time we are living thru. You all keep me sane in a timeline that is unhinged.

I knew he was all the things people said he was. But with this happening, I am actually seeing him talk on clips & even I am 😳 He died saying some racist shit. Shot in his throat while saying hard nasty shit about Black people and Trans people. The unease is so real tonight. Stay safe friends.

So they haven’t caught the guy and you don’t have a ton of leads? Maybe sending all your federal law enforcement agents to help ICE and dismantling the JTTF and firing the head FBI field office for political reasons wasn’t the best idea.

Guess Im back watching youtube psychics like it’s 2017 ffs.. smh.

Russians droning Poland, Nepalese burning down their govt, hamas killed in quatar, Netanyahu planning to finish off Gaza, Epstein relationship denials, Kirk shot in the neck, kids killed in Colorado… anything else I have missed? This has to be the most chaotic 24 hrs in my recent memory.

This is my new meme for the existential dread of daily living in the U.S.

Rome is burning & I am back on my youtube long form video bullshit watching a creator who tows cars in Gatlinburg on repeat & eating bagels w cookie butter before it is too expensive to afford cookie butter. A totally normal Tuesday nite. 🙄

Tessa is really sick of the fascism & corporate greed.

The cats are really getting things done today.

Elizabeth Warren would have slapped the shit out of RFK in that hearing if she could have. I think she should have jumped over that table & thrown some hands tbh. ☕️

Live your life in such a way that millions upon millions of people are not disappointed you are not dead already. ☕️

This 2pm thing is starting to piss me off. The gop stays undefeated as a shit show.

Im watching a little docu about Tiler Peck. They just dropped a stat I was unaware of that made me feel some kind of way. She is one of only 25 women who have choreographed on New York City Ballet. There are hundreds of Ballets in their repertory.