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Now that I've started straightening my hair again I get to spend my days wondering whether I unplugged my flat iron and whether my house is burning down.

Things I asked my long-suffering husband tonight: What if you only love me because I love you, and vice versa? Would it be weirder if I married your mom or your dad? Do you think Louis Armstrong was a nice person?

The couple who bought my house a few years ago invited me to said house’s 100th birthday party and I am so delighted by this whole situation.

Also, receiving a lit mag rejection the day I returned from AWP would feel like a discouraging sign from the universe if I believed in such things. Fortunately I only listen to the universe when it’s hyping me up.

One of the highlights of AWP for me was hearing Aishvarya Arora read this poem, which I had just read in Poetry maybe a week before and loved very much. What an absolute delight. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I haven’t used Instagram in months but I redownloaded it last night to see some info about an event I wanted to attend. Oof! Nothing but ads and AI slop. How are so many people still using it?

Am I going to go to a reading tonight or am I going to sit in the giant suite the Marriott inexplicably gave me and eat Chipotle in my sweatpants? 🤔

Life w/ an anxiety disorder: 1. Decide to do a big thing. Get real excited. 2. At some point as the big thing approaches, cross an imaginary line & start dreading the thing. Watch the dread intensify as the thing gets closer. 3. Do the big thing and have a great time. Yes, this is about AWP.

This is also the most accessible option for care for a big part of Kentucky. I’ve had several clients who have had top surgery there and a client right now who was supposed to but can’t get a straight answer about it. Absolutely infuriating.

I was talking to my therapist yesterday about (in)consistency in writing and said "there were times I went years without writing" and then realized that's not true, that I've probably never gone an entire year of my life since the mid-1990s without writing at least one poem. A nice thing to realize!

Louisville, if you need a new PCP go see Dr. Colby Loew at Baptist. If you want to be listened to and to feel like your dr is actually partnering with you to manage your health, she's the one. If you're queer and/or trans, she's got you. She is a literal angel in our current healthcare hellscape.

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Honestly, this is what people in favor of genAI do not get! The work is tough. The work is daunting. The work is humbling. But the work is freeing, heart pounding, soul-mending, and character-building, too.

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

I keep having dreams that I've gone back to school because I realized I missed something, even though in the dreams I'm still an adult w/ two master's degrees. It always seems that I'm there voluntarily, like I thought it would be a good idea. Usu it's high school, but last night it was 5th grade.

I just ate a piece of a birthday cake whose candle was blown out by an extremely snotty 8 year old. In the battle between my germophobia and my love of cake, the cake won.

Important question: what, if anything, do you see in this painting?

Important question: what, if anything, do you see in this painting?

In other news, I was starting to adjust to my haircut but then today I put on my (p)leather jacket and it started giving big Glamour Shots energy. 🫠

I clowned on my husband when he first said he was considering a Honda Civic, but my dudes, this car is NICE.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Reading some reviews of All Fours by Miranda July since I just finished it and woooooow a lot of people hated this book! (For the record, I loved it.)

My guy, without warning, slammed on the passenger-side brake and yanked the wheel to turn the car into a convenience store because he wanted a cup of coffee.

Absolutely correct, and like 99% of the time you can answer any of it with “this was the status quo for years (sometimes decades) and you didn’t have any issue with it then.” Because this is an entirely manufactured moral panic

it's hard to see someone else live your dream

I am trying to accept that this is my hair now. I am trying to accept that I look like a high school English teacher from 1997. I am trying to accept that I have to take this hair to AWP, where I had hoped to be very cool and sexy and interesting. I am having a hard time.

Me: You don’t have a secret DraftKings problem, do you? Husband: What’s DraftKings? Me: *phew*

I got a major haircut on Friday and it looks cute, but I don't want to be cute, I want to be hot! 😭

“You deserve luxury” is a thing I just said to my husband while car shopping. I am not a good influence.

An embarrassing but important realization I've had about my writing is that I struggle with plot. I'll start writing a scene based on vibes but I rarely have any idea what's going to happen. Sometimes it works itself out in longer pieces, but it's virtually impossible to write flash this way.

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

This brings to mind the humiliation I felt when I went to Denny's and ordered -- for the first and last time -- Moons Over My Hammy.

I’m a trauma therapist but when my own therapist wanted me to start EMDR today I was all

Just when I was about to stop sofa rotting and go do something, figure skating came on. 🫠

Last weekend, hundreds of miles from my house, I wore glitter eyeshadow that I borrowed from a friend. It has somehow infested my makeup and there's been glitter on my face every day this week. I guess this is just my life now.

Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

I went to high school with Laura Wills. It’s not an exaggeration to say that everyone “knew” she was “having an affair” with the principal. We all gossiped about it. Our parents gossiped about it. In reality she was being aggressively groomed and nobody gave a shit.

I was gone for four days and expected my husband to be waiting for me in the car at the airport but instead he was inside the airport with a bouquet of flowers and he also did all the Sunday chores without me and man am I glad I married this guy

One of the best things about being in my 40s is the unexpected new level of body confidence that has organically occurred. Walking around the spa in a two-piece? Wearing sequined booty shorts in the club with my ass hanging out? IDGAF. It’s incredible.

Baby’s first Broadway show!

the entire party should be saying this

If I were the social media manager of a police department that was found to have routinely violated the civil rights of the community it serves, and also had to pay out $200K for a sexual harassment lawsuit a mere month ago, I would simply not post things like this. But that's just me!

We are not here to generate shareholder value. We are here, as Vonnegut said, to fart around. Learn to sing, draw a picture, get laid, play dominoes in the park, lowball guys selling project stock cars on your local online yardsale, go count butterflies in a field.

“Neutral. It’s not off-putting but it doesn’t turn me on. It’s a clinical observation of two guys doin’ it.” - my very straight husband when I asked him how he felt watching the sex scenes in Heated Rivalry