Allegra

'Hearing Damage' by Thom Yorke wafting from the speakers outside Capitol Cafe, Dan Huberty's coffee shop on Congress Ave......an entirely new kind of vibe never before experienced

when Trent Reznor said IT DIDN'T TURN OUT THE WAY YOU WANTED IT TO / IT DIDN'T TURN OUT THE WAY YOU WANTED IT TO, DID IT / NOW/ YOU KNOW/ THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE I felt that

Wheatsville has diet coke and Coke Zero but I avoid it if I can bc everyone there has a deeply unsettling aura

nothing worse than when you ask if a restaurant has Diet Coke and they say "we have an all-natural 'diet cola'" SHUT UP!!!!!!!!

still true

oh you don't fucking say!

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? Even as prescriptions rise to a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

this is the issue that makes me so angry it threatens to tip me into MAHAdom www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...

Rilke was wrong btw — every feeling is final

much in the same way everyone is walking around reacting to their childhood wounds no matter their age the nation is still reacting to 9/11

I follow a handful of journalist for news updates, and an enormous number of mentally unwell people with arts degrees to put that news into proper context for me

I won't watch Severance. Everyone was too annoying about it. I don't like it when people demonstrate such an unhinged capacity for wonder that they're practically in tears over a show on Apple TV. Haven't you ever read a book? A POEM?? Seen a sunset? Been in love????

girl at a party told me my name is surprising bc it's more 'whimsical' than my personality, which is very 'of the world.' relayed this to a friend later and told them I was almost named Avery, to which my friend said 'you do really seem like an Avery....it's giving Avery.' is my whole life wrong

I refuse to watch it bc everyone is being so annoying about it

I would love to believe and endorse the oft-given advice that "nobody is thinking about you" but unfortunately my favorite activity, either alone or with a friend, is closely observing strangers in public and speculating wildly about what their deal is

when someone says they hate country music that's incredibly useful to me because I know immediately they have no taste and are boring

when someone says they hate country music that's incredibly useful to me because I know immediately they have no taste and are boring

somehow twitter has become for work and this has become the place where I post the thoughts I have between 9pm and midnight

Shout out to my friends who also go to the gym late at night

I love to go to the gym at 10pm with all the other freaks - have become convinced it's the only way to stay sane

just remembered the whole time I ran the paper my beverage of choice was cold brew mixed with topo chico

recently misjudged how relatable my newspaper era routine was and recounted it to a new friend, watched horror fall across her face instead of recognition

I'll never be notable enough to do a Grub Street Diet but occasionally I think about the discourse that would have been spawned had I done one during the time I was editor of the Sentinel — it would have been so unhinged I fear that would've been my legacy

told a coworker today that I'm "letting the universe crash over me like a giant wave" and thought I was joking but as soon as I said it I was like wait but actually I am......namaste I guess

terrifying to contemplate the mental space I'd have to be in to watch the SNL 50th anniversary show

I highly recommend being of service to the people around you instead of screaming into the void on social media about things you cannot control

if they were just going after stimulants I'd be all about it

flew too close to the sun drinking cold brew first thing this am, a practice I'd sworn off because it's basically a hard drug. terrible choice. made everything feel very sinister. my fellow human beings became my enemies.

There is a lot of misinformation swirling about ICE and BP activity, arrests and deportations. I wish everyone would pause before circulating unverified claims.

sorry if that's obnoxious to say but my sanity and well-being depend entirely on being able to discern between what I can change and what I can't and letting go of the latter