Labor Day Thoughts

It is somehow apropos that on this Labor Day, a day that celebrates the power of the working person, I feel strangely liberated.
Everyone in the neighborhood is having outdoor picnics. The smell of charcoal, lighter fluid, and smoke drifts in and out of the open windows of my house with some regularity this afternoon. As [...]

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It’s a good thing

Although it’s overcast outside, it’s a bright, shiny new day for me—and I’ve lost ten pounds this week!
It’s my super secret new diet which I haven’t shared with anyone. The last thing I need is for people to start judging me in a whole new way. They already have enough ammunition.
I’m telling people that it’s [...]

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Audition follow-up

I’m exhausted. I didn’t sleep particularly well last night despite the help of science, mostly because I’m so worked up in a quandary as to what to do next. Trust me, last night’s assemblage of motley thespians was as super-weird as it gets, and worse, seeing HWSNBN’s enthused reaction to all of them only served [...]

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