Whit ✨

Today me and my best friends created a game called everything is bush. It’s just five second rule but for every category the answer is always some kind of bush.

I love my best friends they are so special to me they helped me move and did not complain and still love me so much and also they are enamored by my neighbor’s chickens

I don’t know if I can “joy is resistance” my way through a great depression tbh

Anyway now that it’s February I’m gonna try posting every day and today will be very very hard to beat

I was drunk at a bar on the 31st and almost forgot so forgive me lol

My favorite line in Godzilla king of the monsters is when Dr. Stanton says “I’ve got some bad news” and Barnes goes “you can just say news, it’s always bad”

oh you get weather reports from a groundhog? I get all my news from a pigeon in the parking lot at ace hardware. he is very mean.

When I was 25 I was sad I had not written The Great American Novel. At 55, I realize there's no Great American Novel, there are merely the stories I'm the best person to tell. Don't worry about how others see greatness. Work on being the best version of who you are and what you can do in the world.

There is a lot of support for Godzilla on this web zone and I love that for her

I get to see my best friends today and I get to start moving into my new house today and school is cancelled so it’s going to be a good day

Moving is crazy like oh I guess I’ll put my stuff in these cabinets instead of the cabinets down the street

The good news is they cancelled school tomorrow. The bad news is it’s because everyone is sick.

Drunk off one glass of wine and I DoorDashed ice cream because being a middle school teacher is very hard

I was going to read onyx storm because I read fourth wing and iron flame but my heart is just not in it so I’m watching a comprehensive video summary instead.

I’m not saying I’m depressed I’m just saying I’ve watched Godzilla: King of the Monsters 6 times in 10 days.

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

I have a note from my doctor that says everyone has to be nice to me

It’s kinda millennial cringe over here but that’s okay

They were fine with it

Anyway I submitted a paper four days late and everyone involved just needs to be alright with that lol

Graduate coursework is not difficult in the sense that I don’t understand the concepts but it’s difficult because I cannot bring myself to write a paper about my curriculum philosophy when the rest of my life is on fire

My niece loves to play harmonica but she calls it the marhonica and it’s so funny

Idk but I think they’re my religion

it’d be so lit if existence had a little less of the nightmare stuff

Reasons to Live Through the Apocalypse Sunrises. People you have still to meet and laugh with. Songs about love, peace, anger, and revolution. Walks in the woods. The smile you exchange with a stranger when you experience beauty accidentally together. Butterflies. Seeing your grandparents again. The moon in all her forms, whether half or full. Dogs. Birthdays and half-birthdays. That feeling of floating in love. Watching birds eat from bird feeders. The waves of happiness that follow the end of sadness. Brown eyes. Watching a boat cross an empty sea. Sunsets. Dipping your feet in the river. Balconies. Cake. The wind in your face when you roll the car window down on an open highway. Falling asleep to the sound of a steady heartbeat. Warm cups of tea on cold days. Hugs. Night skies. Art museums. Books filled with everything you do not yet know. Long conversations. Long-lost friends. Poetry.

I wrote this on one of the darkest days of my life. It gave me an anchor to hold onto.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It is a perfect book.