Actually, this is my worst neighbor story.

This is a global trauma. It's okay to not feel okay when life has become so uncertain and frightening. If being productive or learning new things makes you feel better, by all means, do them. But no one needs to, and you certainly shouldn't force yourself. Getting through the day is all any of us need to be doing…

It’s the productivity shamers that are getting to me. Look at the THINGS you could be DOING. Look at all the STUFF you could be LEARNING.

I hope it continues to go well, being able to have a conversation with someone without awkward pauses is no small thing! 

Hi gang,
How is everyone?

I’m feeling relieved that our Easter break is over and that I’ll be back to my new wfh routine on Monday, 2 weeks off when you’re not allowed to go anywhere feels like a waste and I’m succumbing to the old cabin fever.

I don’t really have any news except that I had...a date? I mean, not…

My neighbor behind our house owns the empty lot next to our house, which until last year had 32 trees on a 50x100 lot (basically a rare forest in a residential area). She had all 32 trees cut down because she doesn’t like leaves. There are two remaining trees: a pine that she cut the top off with a machete and a rose…

She was older than me by about 20 years and always kind of treated me with disdain. We never once chatted or talked at length. I lived alone in a studio and rarely had people over so I don’t know what the problem was, but I think she treated. most people that way.

Ahh, Maria.

Here’s hoping they repurpose the bins for his dismembered remains.

What--- the actual fuck.

College. I lived in studio apartment next to a bunch of dude bros in a 3 bedroom. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday every weekend, they would drink, party, and listen to loud music. They frequently had people over. I called the landlord on them a couple of time, but the last time I had to call was the worst. They had…

We had to move from one side of our apartment building to the other after a family of six moved into the small apartment next door and installed their teenagers and their stereo into the bedroom, which adjoined ours. Things were very loud, long after midnight.

My best friend’s neighbor. She had three kids at the time, and the 4yr old had a pet bunny. A really super cute, sweet, little, white bunny. This kid had some emotional problems, too, so the bunny was a good sort of emotional support animal. The kid LOVED this bunny. The next door neighbor has a Jack Russel terrier,…

We lived in the country. Our neighbor shot our pet rooster with a bow and arrow. In the winter. There was blood, an arrow, and feathers left in the ditch where he was shot, but no bird. I have always wondered if they ate our rooster. RIP, buddy, we miss you.

One night at my older apartment my boyfriend and his friend who were visiting went outside our building to smoke a cigarette. They came back in almost immediately saying a swat officer yelled at them to get back inside. When we looked outside the window a TANK was rolling down our street as were several other homeland…

I used to live in an apartment on a very busy street in a small town. This fiftyish guy, who used to walk around the neighborhood all the time, who lived with his parents due to mental health issues, decided he wanted to be my boyfriend. I never met the guy. First he starts walking in circles around my building,…

When I was living in an as-yet-ungentrified corner of Brooklyn, I made friends with the middle aged crack dealer who lived on the third floor with his elderly mother and his sister and her small white dog. He would ostentatiously clear out all of his crack buddies off the stoop when I got home from work: “Hey get the…

Lived in the suburbs. Will never do that again.

The one that had several animals that she wasn’t responsible enough to take care of. She had a dog that never went on walks, just pissed and shat on the balcony above my patio so my patio always smelled of piss. She would lock her dog out on the patio at night (I called the cops for that one, multiple times. I wanted…

My neighbor hit me up on Grindr and pushed hard. I politely declined and soon learned he has absolutely no chill, like zero. He tried multiple times. Then he starts asking neighbor questions like “who put in your new irrigation, I need a recommendation” THROUGH FUCKING GRINDR. I blocked him at that point. I’ve lived…