Tori Brenneison

Phil is watching the windstorm and he looks like a meerkat and also The Renaissance

getting a condolence card from your dead dad's doctor is *wild*

(she was also my GP for like 20 years, so I guess it's not all that weird)

Caved. Did it. Have an appointment with a psychiatric NP in a week and a half.

Dave: is that like, a therapist?
Me: no, this is a woman who is hopefully going to medicate me within an inch of my life

My mom finally posted about it, so I can too:

My father passed away very suddenly last Saturday. Business as usual one minute and in cardiac arrest the next. He was likely gone before EMS got to the house.

Reading a lot of dark academia/campus novels recently, for obvious reasons* and wish there were more set in the past few years.**

Any recs?

*i wrote one
**mine's set in 2025

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pretty sure the guy in the next booth is doing coke in this Culver's

and not from the pop machine

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

I like to sit on my couch and read my Kindle before bed, but every time I sit down to do it, Enzo gets too excited about being able to cuddle and punches me into the face.

(Enzo is an excitable 40lb herding dog)

Got profoundly sad last night, so I sat down and read an entire novel in like three hours.

(leave me and my former gifted child tendencies alone please)

I am in an abusive relationship with the technology industry Some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, an appreciation for folk music, and some other thoughts.

I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.

Okay, actually quite pleased with how this came out. (Do Theo and Émile get any screen time like this in the WIP? No, but I like them a lot a lot so...)

#digitalArt #illustration #writingCommunity

the internet just recommended me a cocktail that is mostly gin and lemon curd

if anyone needs me, my British ass will be drunk on the floor

the clicky clacky keyboard is for programming

the thunky wunky keyboard is for writing

I routinely ignore them both and just use the laptop keyboard

slept slightly wrong and now my neck is jacked

(I turn 40 next month)

I am 1000% adopting "You wouldn't be in my Top 8" as an insult

NEORSD is a treasure, amen

... which reminds me, I gotta pay my stormwater bill

hi, ya girl spaced out on dinner prep and accidentally made enough jalepeño bacon mac and cheese to feed the whole neighborhood

literally how did I fuck up badly enough to make two?????

illustration of two men standing at a kitchen counter and talking while holding white coffee mugs. The man on the left is tall and slender with short brown hair, wearing a cream-colored turtleneck sweater . The man on the right has brown hair, rectangular glasses, and a friendly expression, wearing a blue button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up.

WIP of my fave middle-aged murder bois (fanart of my own damn characters)

Theo and Émile are:
✅ roommates (20+ years)
✅ colleagues (same)
✅ co-conspirators to magical homicide (20 years ago)
❓confusing to everyone because are they or aren't they (yes)

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One was a high school principal/district superintendent, the other was a steelworker and then worked in freight forwarding (I think, my memories are unclear). Both WWII vets.

oh, what the heck, let's try sharing something for once 🤷🏻‍♀️ #WIPSnips

✨ stressed ✨

sometimes I don't think my prose is very good and then I read an actual published book with what I think is terrible prose and I'm like "oh"

we live on a rock floating through space and none of us have any idea what we're doing anyway

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Saw someone post "you don't know how good you've got it until you lose institutional JSTOR access" and like...

sorry, can't relate?

(that lifetime pass is a hell of an alumni perk, I use it all the time for funsies)

He goes to a private school with an urban agriculture program and he's super into the campus farm and beekeeping club l, so this makes sense. It was just funny 😹 he put his phone down and then got honey all over himself and didn't check it again

Waited 15 minutes for my kid in the school parking lot before heading in to find him. He came winging out of the kitchen behind the servery and shouted "SORRY WE'RE MAKING HONEY DO YOU WANNA SEE"

woof the German Language School open house is tomorrow and I absolutely need to go but also I am barely a person this week

the only thing keeping my sanity intact this week is having Kathleen Madigan tickets for Saturday

The only thing I can think of is that this cereal tastes like shit.

I was going to say "probably" but then I realized I'm actually really sure it tastes like shit.

hungry but all I have are ingredients because I was too ambitious when I bought groceries

if I was just trying to get back into therapy it'd go faster but unfortunately I am pretty sure I need therapy and educational psychology and the good drugs, and I would prefer this to happen before I really fuck things up lol