I’m so glad it was something ‘benign’ that we can work through.

Aw, BenBen! I will miss seeing your smushy face every week. 

In somewhat unrelated notes, I had my first public facing day back at work sort of that was cut short by my boyfriend calling saying he couldn’t feel his hands, was going to faint, thought he was having a heart attack and I needed to come home.

May I wish you all a happy, yet complicated, 100th anniversary of woman suffrage this week. No, the 19th amendment did not win every woman the right to vote. Yes it took decades more to get just even a few steps more for many women of many backgrounds, and every decade we fight and battle for more. But it took 144…

While the came here pre-revolution, descendant of the signers blah blah blah might seem like it would dox you, it doesn’t. There are A LOT of you.

I hope that bystander got themselves something wonderfully frivolous and massively on sale.  

SUE!

I’m not surprised, really. More so in the US because our health care system sucks so much, and people put off dental work forever. I have horrid teeth and have had two abscesses that cost me about $900 each, with insurance.  

So many of the notable human evolutionary miles stone ‘subjects’ died from tooth problems. When you go through the human evolution exhibit at the Natural History museum in DC the notable subjects (thing like Lucy and the like) it’s like ‘died likely from abscess of the jaw’ over and over again. 

It does get really old when people are on top of you for that. It’s been kind of nice not being at work and having my coworkers all comment on my rabbit food. or the surprise when I eat something ‘bad’.

Pfft, it’s Drop Bears.

So a couple years ago I was using alcohol as a numbing agent to the world. I would get home, drink and get high to the point until I fell asleep, go to work, try not to throat punch a visitor or coworker, go home, not eat anything, drink repeat. This went on for about three months. At a certain point I was talking to…

The amount of change that happens in the face elongating that down going from 22-35 is really fascinating. I knew it was a thing, but seeing it happen to me is another world. 

I live on the Main Line.

It’s definitely a suburban problem as well. Fewer properties built to be low income housing, everything that could/would cost less is either a structural nightmare or gets flipped into a $450,000. Every apartment is ‘luxury’ (a word I have found out means they take away your kitchen and replace it with ‘Community…

oohhhh, jackpot.

I thought these squirrels and I were cool, though. I would keep awful children away from them, I gave them water when it was hot, I enjoyed their fatness in the winter. We had a working relationship.

Finn, with the half ledge loaf. 

I live in a suburb like 15 minutes outside of the city, and this is the only grocery store in ‘town’ (I could go to the Whole Foods 10 minutes down the road...but I don’t want that extra level of insanity and $$$). Pre-pandemic it was always NUTTY busy, but since pandemic I mostly have chosen to go at like...8pm on…