Soppho

Me: Okay, how about those little crusty things you get in your eyes when you sleep? What did you call those when you were a kid?
Y Chromosome: Sleepers.
Me: Really?! REALLY?! I did, too! Finally, we found some sort of commonality in our childhoods. This is exciting. Sleepers, yeah!
Y Chrome: Well, sometimes we called them ’sleepers’, [...]

I bought this little red guy at Christmas last year while I was shopping for other people (I know, I know. Don’t look at me like that. He was irresistible, in that he’s adorable and I’m utterly weak). He’s made of wool and his legs are adjustable. When I bought him, he was standing a [...]

A few mornings ago, I was walking along the downtown mall with my cup of coffee, when two people on opposite sides of the mall a little ways ahead of me came running toward each other. I could tell that they were old friends who hadn’t seen each other in a long time. When they [...]

Look at me! Look at me! It’s raining outside but I’m not getting wet! Because I’m indoors! Because my internet is working again! Hooray! Exclamation point!
Let’s celebrate by watching this totally awesome commercial for Brontë sister action figures (with barrier-breaking feminist vision powers, naturally). Alas, if only it were real. They’d look great next to [...]

I am writing this from the parking lot across the street from my apartment, because my internet has been out for 10 days, with no sign of it reappearing any time soon (You may be asking yourself where my rental company is in all of this, but haha, haha, no). If ever I needed confirmation [...]