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Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

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Part 3 of 3 in my Substack series on how to write an essay/memoir. Part 3 discusses the Eastern 4-act structure aka gi seung jeon gyeol aka kishōtenketsu. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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I — Uh — I saw egg salad priced at $25 per pound today. Just regular egg salad.

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How to write an essay or memoir, in which I continue with my process and examine western storytelling structure and its impact on meaning and tone. Part 2 of 3 open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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There is more than one right way to do a thing. But here are a few ways to write an essay as I lay bare my process. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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My love language landscape is bleak and full of toil.

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My dog won’t eat a bowl of dog food unless I pick it up and shake it and then put it back down. He’ll eat some. Then an hour later when he wants to resume, he taps me on my foot. So that I can shake his bowl. Every dog I’ve had is so delightfully weird.

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TlL Hello Kitty is supposed to be an 8 year old British Girl? Whose name is Kitty White. Tell me. That is a CAT without a mouth. Why does a little girl have whiskers and cat ears? HALP. everything is upside down.

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Allergies so bad that despite taking Benadryl at night and Zyrtec during the day, even the inside of my ear canal itches.

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Woke up this morning and cried. My grief is bubbling up these days. I’ve lost my entire family within 2 years. And then I watched DYING FOR SEX and bawled again.

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Everyone is talking about the price of eggs but I just saw a single bell pepper priced at $5. And a bunch of asparagus priced at $10, yo.

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I guess on this year’s Trans Day of Visibility, saying “I see you,” can also be a threat. But. Trans folks exist. Will always exist. And deserve safe harbor.

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…has the frequency of egging homes gone down lately? Eggs and toilet paper. Who knew they’d become such precious commodities.

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Because everything in the world is so unreliable, I am seeking out tiny things that make a difference. For starters. I am asking for recommendations for luxury matches. The kind that light. The kind w a box that doesnt scuff up and ditch efficacy halfway thru the match supply. Nice wood. Ya dig?

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I keep thinking about that clarinet solo in the Law and Order theme song and the glory that clarinet player must have felt: a clarinet solo in modern music at last! A deeply underestimated instrument (listen to Mozart’s clarinet concerto in A major and you’ll see).

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The amount of scrutiny paid to Meghan Sussex’s perfectly benign show about aspirational living…vs the amount of scrutiny paid to, let’s say…”OPSEC.”

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“WE ARE CLEAR ON OPSEC.” Pffffft.

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And here is The Atlantic’s search tool for Libgen. I’m kind of surprised they sucked up Frank & Jindori, my short story about mythical Jindo dogs. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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For those whose work/s is/are in Libgen, the illegal pirate site that AI companies copy, the author’s guild has helpful action items. authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

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This surgery recuperation is…annoying. Just one single specific part of my body is on fire with nerve pain. And the rest of me is fine?

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What makes a character charismatic? What draws people to certain people on social media? Does my novel’s protagonist and then have to be charismatic? Why have I gone down this rabbit hole? My psychic lawn is full of rabbit holes.

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OMG YOU GUYS OMGGG

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If there is a Spider-Man, I would like to be Bee-Woman (or better yet, Bee-Person). My costume will be yellow and black. I will sting evil people. I will make honey for everyone. I have the power to make propolis and cure infection. I can make Royal jelly & provide nutrition. I can fucking FLY.

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5 year anniversary of COVID lockdown order. Woo.

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Also thank you for humoring my obsession. My partner is not into the royal family whatsoever. I, on the other hand, have been long obsessed w the British Royal Family since Princess Diana married Charles. They are my Kardashians.

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I will watch the rest of With Love Meghan. My general take on it is that I don’t really learn anything from it and I don’t think Meghan, unlike ppl like Martha, is really trying to “teach” us anything. She’s just trying to share? She’s making us feel like a guest? It’s perfect ASMR.

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Also haha. Meghan is doing a British Thing with this tea party. Oh! Mindy Kaling changed out of her Canadian Tuxedo outfit. She’s become “Montecito Mindy” who left her microwaved burritos at home. Mindy is back in denim and not interested in making daisy chains. My girl. THE END.

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