Julia Sippel

Just got two pairs of new tights, & having tights that are not too small & don’t have any holes is SO nice—I can actually WEAR them & be comfortable!! Ironically, I spent SO LONG telling myself i didn’t need new, comfortable, non-holey tights because I never wore the tights I already had!

My experience of being alive is, among other things, trending more and more towards wanting to wear only wool socks

My whole office smells so aggressively of bacon, what could the office neighbors POSSIBLY be doing

Just typed “spacement/placing” instead of “spacing/placement” and would never have noticed without the red squiggly underline

Lol just cooked halloumi in a pan for the first time & the way it poufed up & all the water came out & FOAMED?? The way it didn’t even START to brown? Terrifying! Thought I’d created a true boggy-cheese hell. And then! Poured off the water, turned up the heat & it crisped right up & was SO delicious

No one in the U.S. eats dinner as early as Pennsylvanians, new report says A new analysis of when Americans eat dinner shows that people in Pennsylvania eat the earliest, with an average dinner time of 5:37 p.m.

I always want to blame my early dinners on this phenomenon, www.inquirer.com/food/pennsyl... but it’s def because my dad grew up eating at 5pm on Long Island & always fed us at 5pm (to avoid meltdowns, & also because my mom left for work at 6pm, AND ALSO because it’s a gd nice civilized time to eat)

just cooked a bunch of corn with so much butter and pepper and salt and a little thyme and garlic and then I immersion-blended it and added it to Annie’s mac and cheese along with a bunch of zucchini shredded & cooked down with even more butter/pepper, and damn is it good

When they cut a freckle-sized mole off my LITTLE TOE it was somehow my first time getting local anesthetic & they did not wait for it to kick in & they also didn’t tell me they were about to cut, so I suddenly felt them slowly slice off the freckle & it did kinda suck. Interesting experience tho!

This past Thanksgiving, under markedly less adverse circumstances but while staying in a house I was unfamiliar with, I poured a little bit of turkey stock into my coffee thinking it was creamer (they also had a green box of creamer?!) & took a sip, & it was…..not as disastrously bad as you’d expect

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One thing about me is I WILL be trying to do active listening for the story you are telling even if I am choking back sobs while you literally have your hands in my mouth grafting new gum onto my gums

There is nothing like an author who refuses to accept any basic punctuation edits to make me realize 1) how much I do actually understand the function and utility of punctuation despite usually operating mostly on vibes, and 2) how much I rabidly CARE about punctuation Making Sense

I think this is the first time I've lived walking distance from a grocery store and I'm out of my mind about it. I'll walk there several times a day. Oh did I forget to grab something? No big deal I'll simply Walk To The Store

Huge news!

Hey, so, I have no idea who this character is and I also don’t have pierced ears, but these earrings are DELIGHTFUL, I love them

sometimes you place a hold on a libby audiobook even tho it’s baseball season & you don’t have spare listening time for audiobooks…& then you see there’re 15 people ahead of you in line for the book & feel better cause it’s a long season but surely not THAT long

I definitely feel this, & I’m also in a situation where none of the friends I used to see regularly have kids—it really does seem like the habit was broken & establishing new routine contact never happened. I keep meaning to be the one to try, but for me too it often feels easier to just not! 😬

how is every week simultaneously ten thousand years long but also seemingly over before it even begins

Me, with cinnamon-date-sweet-bread baking in the oven, suddenly catching a strong whiff of something VERY burnt and savory smelling: *runs to the kitchen in a panic*
Alex, already in the kitchen: *minding his own business, toasting an everything bagel*

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...

The CDC eviscerated divisions that oversee a database on accidental deaths and injuries AND the team that maintains a tool for tracking sexually transmitted diseases.

The EPA will stop requiring that industry measures greenhouse gas emissions.

If you don't measure, it's not a problem, right?

turns out there was nothing stopping me from having a jar of roasted red peppers and a jar of storebought pesto to make quick fancy sandwiches with

VERY much my shit

New York Fashion Week X Thom Browne | Taro’s Origami Studio Taro's Origami studio was recently asked to help design and fold the New York Fashion Week runway set for luxury American fashion designer Thom Browne.

I love the ethereal clutter effect and how sculptural this is (and also it sounds kind of nightmarish to work on, but maybe in a fun ever-evolving challenge way)
www.tarosorigami.com/new-york-fas...

I googled “good goldfish names” and maybe we could just name the cat Bubbles cause he looks like a goldfish most of the time

Me, stepping out my door into calm late afternoon sun: Oh ok, so it’s finally not FREEZING out here
Me, half a block later, walking into the wind at a 60° tilt, clutching my coat around me: Never mind, risked the great outdoors too soon

If you work at the Kennedy Center, or at an arts org grappling with how to respond to the new NEA guidelines, or have anything else to share about how Trump’s takeover of the arts is affecting you, get in touch: bymarinafang@gmail.com or marinafang.72 on Signal

It’s become very apparent that when I’m editing on hard copy i catch all the missing/incorrect hyphens adjacent to the word “century” but I will never notice if the word “nineteenth” is misspelled, AND I am working with an author who regularly uses both “ninteenth” and “nineteeth,” so that’s fun

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I’ve been in something of a state of despair because it’s gray & icy, the world is a mess, & the cat won’t let me pet him, but then I ate some green lentils cooked in chicken broth & herbs d’provence with sautéed kale & peppery mushrooms & caramelized onions cooked in butter & now I feel hope again

My laser pointer batteries are dying and the cat is salty because I carried him around like a baby for a min and also he ate all his food too fast