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Mar 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I really see the mask as a comfort now. I don't anticipate a total end to wearing it.
I haven't been extreme by any definition. I have been back to restaurants for months, within reason. I live alone and that really reduces my exponent. But I still don't like face-to-face airflow or recycled air.
And I haven't had a sinus infection in over two years now. I've had six a year since I was born. This is HUGE for me. Huge. Incalculable, really.
And I think of this often.

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Mar 8
My pilates studio was a bit too ebullient in their marketing email about masks restrictions being lifted. Now i am side-eying all of them, which to be fair I should have already been doing because pilates.
Look at this.
I feel about these alternative healing/body spaces the way i feel about church. The organizations ruined a fine enough idea.
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Mar 8
You know those missionary types sent to recruit you in airports or whatever? They always peg me as weak and as soon as they say their spiel and I respond with a quick, "I'm sorry, come again?" they leave me alone. 🤷🏿‍♀️
Same for men in New York who start trying to make me a third wife or do mathematics or whatever. As soon as I open my mouth, they kind of go away.
So, I may not be impervious to joining a cult but cults are definitely resistant to recruiting me. It all works out.
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Mar 7
There is a specific — though not special, per se — burden on childless women when the labor is reallocated and the boundary between work and home is erased.
I have had to be THEE most aggressive about demands on my time during the last year when people slid into casual boundary transgressions because “what else could she be doing??”
The worlds worst therapist told me to “get hobbies” at the height of the pandemic and it dawned on me that we had absolutely no language applicable to what was happening. I said, “what hobbies do you suggest?” “*%#!?” was implied. She got quiet and I hung up.
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Mar 3
I cannot recommend Tausha enough. A joy to work with. 📸

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There are only three people in the world who can photograph me. Two of them is my little sister, the budding influencer. And the other is Tausha. Everyone else secretly hates me.
Sharing because she is great and she posted me on her IG today instagram.com/p/CapIGaELLD6/…
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Mar 3
This is a lot.
The networks are like a secular version of the moral right-alt-tech networks, down to the fake think tanks
And I don’t know how the writer wrangled this narrative. I need margins and a pencil just to follow it. It’s a lot.
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Mar 2
I am literally not equipped to be a modern wife. It’s basically leveled up to “thin baby-making carpenter with film editing experience” and honestly it’s easier to get a PhD.
I least I get to be fat and hire specialists.
Also? Peep the t-shirt.
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