Caroline

It sucks to be incapacitated with no real warning. I think that’s actually the thing I hate most about having a chronic illness, days just get taken away from me.

It’s not exactly fair to say he miscalculated it, I don’t think he thought about it at all.

I was driving behind a car with a Trump 2024 sticker, and another sticker with a smiling Trump that said “how about those gas prices?” and the world lacks subtlety these days. Everything is too on the nose.

I bet his joints feel great.

I have a chapter in my book about this bc I’m so mad about it. They insist that if the salary was lower no decent people would take it, while they expect me to be grateful for the opportunity of their lowball offer for employment. CEO salaries have gone up 900% since the 70s.

Oh, I’ll bet they do. I’m at around 300 applications, a few interviews, no offers. It’s demoralizing, and it gets harder to be motivated to put so much effort into an application.

I used one of those ATS checkers to run my resume through. I couldn’t get it to register how many years of experience I had no matter how I phrased it, so it kept rejecting it against the job listing. Even though the listing was like… my exact resume.

By the end of the day, I often feel like the only capacity my brain has left is scrolling. I don’t really want to be doing it, but I don’t have the energy for anything else.

If you want to look for attention economy explanations maybe consider the general vanishing of leisure time and the obliteration of people's ability to do things outside of work, which favors mind-numbing slop content like scrolling tiktok over more engaging entertainment like books or games.

I also asked my actual rheumatologists if the goal was to “live like commercial people” or if that was not realistic. “You know, mountain biking and moving boulders and shit?”

A doctor asked me what I was taking Rinvoq for, and I answered “moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis.”

Me being mad that John came in to work sick, when we both work from our house.

I spend most of my day puttering around the house informing the cats that they are pretty, and then asking them how they’re doing that. How are you so pretty? How you doing that?

Prednisone is the worst, it gives me the heart rate of a startled baby rabbit.

This is the other thing! What do I even pivot to? Arts are boned, so coding? Nope. Writing? Nah, that’s dead too. Whatever you land on, everyone else is going to be scrabbling for that gig, too.

My skill set professionally is photography, video production, graphic design, and illustration. I am not in a good place job wise. And I’m 43, so I’m not in a place where I expected to have to retrain for some entirely new career and start back at the bottom.

Artist Thaddeus Mosley standing in front of his large wood sculptures while holding chiseling tools

1Hood Media reporting on Threads that artist Thaddeus Mosley passed yesterday at age 99. This man was a seemingly ageless legend. Worked at his gorgeous art even at age 99. What a loss, but what a life. 🖤💛

I loved our station wagon as a kid. Kids want to sit in the way back!

I did not know you used to drive a dump truck!

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

I’ll never get this out of my brain.

(Also they were union men who voted for democrats.)

I may be an over educated mouthy leftist woman, but by god I know from blue collar.

Friends, I have a truck driver turned mechanic and a coal miner, maybe I *should* run for Congress.

I honestly don’t know. I think I saw somewhere that it was 48 ounces? It’s a literal bucket.

I imagine this has to do with their new enormous bucket o’ iced coffee.

Like abortion care, this seems like a “between you and your doctor and maybe your parents” thing.

I think they immediately go to “they’re going to get top surgery and then regret it.” But whatever people think about doctors, they don’t want people to have surgery they’ll regret either. So I don’t know how you ensure that they’re sure BUT that doesn’t mean it’s unknowable!

They’re not an exact color match, but they do fit the vibe. And yeah I’m also trying to cut down on the number of shoes I own, but sometimes it’s aggravating she you don’t have The Right Shoe.