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We’ve had a bout of nice weather, so I forgot about social media.

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January was two years long and February was two days.

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The way I was like WHEW at least it’s Wednesday. It’s Tuesday.

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A student shared that he’d been experiencing depression & while I initially felt guilty for not noticing, I now feel really honored that he could open up to me. Aspects of mental health are still taboo here & so it means a lot that he told me.

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With all my half-started or straight up failed careers, I feel especially lucky to have found my way to teaching. Nothing beats the excitement I saw on my students’s faces when I walked into class today 🙏🏾🥲

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Setting my everyday 5:45 AM alarm just sobered me up real quick. Back to school tomorrow!

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On a video call, told my friends I was planning to start juicing again and my guy friend was like?“Juicing 🤨💪🏾” & I was like, “No juicing 🥕🍍”

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I go back to work on Monday & the amount of times I’ve already gone through my Welcome Back, It’s Time to Work speeches should be studied.

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This changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico bullshit feels real Mercator Era & sinister. Maps are deeply political.

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I’ve been submitting to “The Commuter” on @electriclit.bsky.social for as long as I’ve been a fiction writer. Many thanks to @monetpatricethomas.bsky.social for running the flash fiction challenge with the word “tongue” that prodded me to write this.

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Fries for dinner. Deep in my vacation bag. Going back to work next week is going to hurt.

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explain to me like I’m 5 why that man is in the Oval Office during a press conference

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You want me to go outside? Get dressed? Make conversation to find out if you’re my soulmate? Sounds like a scam!

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Getting back into the streets & gotta get over the immediate Eh I feel when a man asks me on a date…mostly it feels like a burden 🥲😂

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Since I started watching Succession, of course, the actors have come into my awareness, so Jeremy Strong’s Super Bowl commercial and then his “method acting” response has me in tears. Like is he a little Kendall Roy on the inside?!

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Kendrick Lamar 🙏🏾👋🏾👏🏾

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There would be no Succession battle if the siblings had united, even once!!! Hate that this feels realistic.

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Hahahah Gregory at the hearing. I’m crying. He said, “I do declare.”

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I’m sorry for my Succession skeets but I’m going through it.

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I feel like Brian Cox is my new Lawrence Fishburne in that I’m going to be looking at him sideways for years like he played Ike Turner 😆😆😆

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I gotta take a shower now because I’m deeply attracted to Jeremy Strong, but like as Kendall Roy. makes a note to tell my therapist

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I’m enjoying Succession, on a writing & entertainment level, but also I spend every episode thinking, “I wish someone WOULD talk to me this way…”

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Kendall Roy needs a hug! I mean, jail time too, but also a hug.

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Mr. Darcy’s American accent is actually god tier. It’s not just that but the facial expressions too.

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Season two of Succession: Humiliation Olympics. Logan Roy could raise his voice at me one time & I hope he enjoys it, because he’d never get to do it again.

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I’m binging Succession and I suddenly understand so many cultural references 😆

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There’s too much to write about my trip to Helsinki and Stockholm, so I started with a brief account.

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The more I prepare to teach my students literature, the more terrifying it is knowing that people want to take away the humanities. Literature teaches you what it means to be human.

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When I was younger, I thought the main message from the story of Daedalus and Icarus was about Icarus not listening to his father, but now I see that it’s as much about Daedalus’s hubris and thinking that humans should be able to fly.

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It’s going to take protests & action. The public in the streets making noise. But so far, nothing. And so, we keep losing more and more.

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Scared to check my bank account after living it up for 10 days.

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Obviously jet lagged and wide awake right now at 4:24 am. Do not remember taking my clothes off and getting in bed at 7pm yesterday 😅

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I watched The Edge of Tomorrow on the plane and was laughing like I haven’t watched it every single time it’s available on a plane.

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Two hour delay on our flight out of Helsinki. Thankfully, I had a million hour layover in Frankfurt, so I'm just chilling. But this trip I've experienced two things that have never happened during my travels: losing a suitcase (got it the next day) and an extended delay.

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Headed back 🚢👋🏾

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Pretty sure I just offended a German man at the hotel breakfast by toasting bread that was not toast bread.

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I left my big jug of lotion in Helsinki, just been walking around ashy & ashamed under all winter clothes. Finally bought some Vaseline today.

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Someone pay me to travel and talk about the millennial experience of adjusting to middle age!!!

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Stockholm, you’re excellent. And expensive. But excellent nonetheless. I’ve gotta get my money up!

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I realize that vacationing is different now that I’m aging. Dinner is early, drinks are fewer. And, Baby, I’ll be asleep by 10pm.

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I love Stockholm and this was a delicious meal, but also a $50 meal & that’s why it’s gonna be five years before I can afford to come back here 😅

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I’m on a ferry on the Baltic Sea, sending this skeet to you. 👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾

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Shoutout to Finnair for delivering my suitcase to me one day after I left it in Milan (I was supposed to grab it during the transfer).

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