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elenaexisting.bsky.social
Gen X spinster aunt. Idaho to Louisville. Corporate drone from 8-5; devastatingly quiet from 5-8. Probably reading. Let's take better care of each other, okay?
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I have completed the annual American ritual of paying absurd amounts of money in order to be allowed to order contact lenses that are the exact same prescription as the ones I paid too much money for last year.

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2025 Book #29 The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije I loved this book. Witty, biting, tender, moving. I look forward to reading anything this author wants to write.

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Here, have a rose:

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

I need a break in the 95° days so that I can contemplate leaving town next week. Right now I don't even want to contemplate leaving my house.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Today we celebrate shallots.

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Exciting development on the melon front: first blossoms!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We all experience tragedies in life. Not many of us can transform great loss into a gift of wisdom and experience to give back to the world. But my friend @rebb003.bsky.social did! Check out her book. Ask your library to preorder a copy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This rules, America should have more decorative Library x Sports crossover manholes

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Weekly melon report: We've got tendrils, baby! The three plants still in the raised bed got support frames this week. The ones I moved to pots last week are playing catch up, but floofing out nicely.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I can't believe I agreed to go with a friend to a dating event in Prospect tomorrow. We couldn't have waited and signed up for the event in Nulu next month?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I made the mistake of starting work at 5am and now I'm looking for lunch at 10am. Why is there so much day left in the day?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won’t pick themselves up, after all. Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. -Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak) #everynightapoem #war

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

America acting Americanly. I hate it.

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I know there aren't enough straight men in my life because no one has ever mentioned The Accountant to me and I would never have watched it this weekend if I hadn't stumbled across this Accountant 2 review on my timeline last week.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

What a lovely film. I cried a bunch.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment