wordslingeuse.bsky.social
Too old to be clever in bios or patient with abject willful hateful stupidity.
She/her. Kansas. Former English prof & medievalist, current empty-nester housefrau.
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I delivered that section in a few forensics competitions in high school!!
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I *wish* I was projecting unfounded fears UGH 😨
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*while
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Me to my therapist friend ln: "Me working on my mental health rn feels very "Masque of the..."
"...Red Death? While Tangelo Nero tries to FIND his fiddle to play ehile Rome burns?!"
"...the metaphors are mixed. But apt."
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I have lots of seashells, large and small, scattered in my borders, and I make sure they're placed so they fill with clean water for the bugs and birbs when I water my plants in the morning.
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It's a great way to wake up!
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I get up between 530 and 630, then take to my bed for the next 2 hours with my coffee, cats, phone and journal, like a budget Edith Wharton with ADHD.
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Hospitals are exhausting for everyone involved.
Hoping she gets home, so both of y'all can get some decent rest.
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Y'all, I forgot to tell you IT HAS SOLAR LIGHTS!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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you could be...ridin' birdy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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...we now own this tho. IJS.
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My solar-lighted , violently pink inflatable flamingo pool arrives today!
It's so gaudy! I'm going to put my gardening hats on the inflated flamingo head when I throw my sweaty self into it post-weeding this summer.
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I have a bunch of funny therapy memes saved on Insta about this exact issue, if you use humor as a coping mech. (I send the most relevant 5 a week to my therapist in our weekly email between seshes check-ins)
BT(am there!), DT, lady!
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Sweet summer child, this happens every year there...
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*Napoleonic
...it's fuckin' early and I'm old.
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Lololol I'm a MEDIEVALIST, not even a military historian or a Napoleanic or Boer or India expert, and I know the answer to this question.
The charge-cards of the fuckin' gigabyte brigade, JFC