Esther: “I experimented with traditionalism in college. This was a very poor life choice and I won’t do it again.”
A few people have asked me if Esther is doing all right. She is happy. (I talk to her on video chat regularly so I know what’s up)
She was having a really bad time a few days ago, and this led her to realize that she should leave tumblr, but she’d already been thinking tumblr was bad for her for a long time.
“I mean … I guess you could say that boobs are just inherently gay, since there’s two of them, and they’re the same.”
I’ve been really nervous/anxious and generally in a kind of bad mood ever since Esther left, and this might have some other cause but I’m pretty sure this is just me returning to my baseline, and realizing how much my baseline sucks compared to how I am when Esther is around
Things can get better – there are signposts guiding me
@queenshulamit and I upping the neoteny ante (by eating vegan, gluten-free cupcakes in front of a statue of Lenin)
Me: “Wow, this mall has an Apple store and a Windows store directly facing each other across a parking lot, and the two look nearly identical except for the glowing logos on the front.”
Esther: “ ‘Two households, both alike in dignity … ’ ”
@queenshulamit and I in Real Flesh World again
OK so two of my sisters now have bearded boyfriends called Rob.
I told @nostalgebraist this and he said “Another copy of me! Like on Gem Homeworld!”
In the airport I gave Rob a coke with a poem attached to it and if you want to know why I did this then read The Instructions by Adam Levin.
Or if you just want to read a book that is very good, very long, and about Judaism, mental illness, child prodigies and why the Prussian Education System is Bad News, read the Instructions by Adam Levin. (Sounds right up the street of many of my followers.)
PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT SONNETS: I’ll get on yours when I am less jetlagged (dot com)
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Esther is here!! She is tired but she is happy