Alexa Stevenson

I am still on the Playmobil mailing list and it is emotionally too much for me. I love having teens, but I also miss putting together like a 600 piece Kinderhospital or whatever (complete with wee emesis basins!) every birthday. It was a present for BOTH of us!

We have ducks next door that our dog is obsessed with getting at, which inspired my (semi-)original composition, “Don’t go chasing waterfowl.” (Instead, I urge her to stick to the ravens and the larks that she’s used to.) That’s the best I’ve got. It has been a rough week.

For a good time, call . . . someone else, I guess.

I have a fever so possibly delirious but I have been laughing at this picture for 5 straight minutes.

“Reshape” in much the way one might reshape a delicate paper airplane by sitting on it.

Thank you for this. This means so much to me.

I am just so very sad to hear this. And so very lucky to have been her friend.

I’m starting to understand what it must have been like when Caligula made his horse a senator.

Also youths so kindly and pure. I have been given multiple bracelets and trinkets by adorable strangers.

Nothing is sticky?!? This doesn’t seem right, surely.

Have taken two teens to Conan Gray concert. This venue is nicer than literally anywhere I saw a show as a youth.

I am back at work (from home) because I have no more PTO and cannot afford an unpaid day so nobody had better cross me today.

Thank you🌷

The whole household is sick (except Kai, who got it first and is mostly recovered) and we are all crabby and weepy and filled with despair and I swear at this point if someone told me sleeping with a zucchini up my ass would let me get through a night without coughing I would try it.

I have Covid and it has been less than a week but it feels like it has been one million years and I will never be well again. Was I ever well before? I no longer remember this.

This makes me want to claw my face off. THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE IS THE PROBLEM. Not “viewing” something in economic terms doesn’t mean it magically exists outside of economics! It just means it is unlikely to be recognized as important, supported, or subsidized.

Lest you think I am just weeping gently while doing nothing, I am in fact soothing self with math—i.e. concrete, absorbing problems that I know have solutions. (Is weeping gently while doing math sounding…worse somehow?)

Right there with you (well, FINE, except for the cleaning.) You are one of my favorite people and I am sorry things are hard.

I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).

To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.

A good way to gauge my mood/current degree of productivity is whether I feel my washing machine sounds smug.

Expertise in tax law and visual arts is definitely what *I* look for in a medical professional.

“Pulling it to one side?” PARDON? Can no part of the body just behave itself? I am very glad things are going better, and they had better stay that way for a bit. (Threatening tone aimed at universe in general.)