Category Archives: Boston
Maiden
Two years ago, when we were looking for this apartment, we were so close to renting a different one. It was pretty, sunny, close to the train, and pretty cheap, but also a smallish walkup with no dishwasher. We talked … Continue reading
Imposter
In the craziness of 2020, I realize how lucky I am to spend another winter break playing stupid games with my formerly-work friends. It’s a nice bit of normalcy in pandemic life, because for the last few years, we’ve played … Continue reading
Book Review: Astrid Sees All
Basically all I do in pandemic isolation is read books and sometimes write about them. Astrid Sees All tells not just Phoebe’s story, but all about the clubs and drugs and adventure of Manhattan in the eighties. This is a great … Continue reading
Lovecraft Country
The Lovecraft Country book has the same characters I liked in the show, but with more scifi nerdery, more character development, more of a subtle creeping horror and less bloody-body-parts horror. Continue reading
The Virtual Teaching Seance
@lisarina6 Zoom meeting or Seance??? ##fyp ##foryou ##foryoupage ##teacher ##teacherlife ##teachersoftiktok ##2020 ##virtual ##zoom ##google ##school ##facts ##reallife ##true ♬ The Creepy Music Box (Psychological Thriller / Horror) – Film Music Experience From WorkBro, who probably needs a new name … Continue reading
Ghosts of Night School Past
Boston’s early voting began at 11:00 this morning, so I was in line outside the polling station at 10:40. We’d requested mail-in ballots, but they mysteriously haven’t arrived, and I’m not taking chances with the fake dropboxes and the mysteriously … Continue reading
Reply Hazy, Try Again.
It’s true. Our Wonderful Zodiac Fortune-Telling Cards cannot accurately predict the events of 2020. We hope you’ll still have fun telling your friends’ fortunes.
Imposter Syndrome In Covid Times
Some of the complete insanity with online classes this year has actually been good for my impostor syndrome. Instead of worrying that I’m secretly no good at my job, that I was hired by accident, everyone else is breezing through … Continue reading
Things I Love About This Picture
These are taken over a few years, and you can tell that by my friends’ clothes and my hairstyles. But my outfits? Apparently I wear my space scarf and purple cardigan to every class day, and I wear my BostonFIG … Continue reading
About That 94%
Posting a link here to the 94% comorbidities story, because I dream of a future in which a reader might say “What? What 94% thing?” in a distant-history kind of way, and not in a distracted-by-even-worse-news-tomorrow way. Still not gonna … Continue reading
