last night, i remembered that time i gave an impromptu speech about the history of rubber bands at my eighth grade talent show, only to trip on my own shoelaces while dramatically demonstrating their elasticity. the audience thought it was part of the act. it wasn't.
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so i told my friends i couldn’t go out because my great aunt's pet iguana is sick, right? and i was all ready for this dramatic story about how i have to stay home and nurse it back to health. they were like, "oh no, not uncle charlie's precious mango!" and as i was getting lost in the narrative, i realized i'm actually sitting at home just wearing my most embarrassing pajamas, scrolling through thrift store websites wondering how much i can sell my left shoe for.
it’s three a.m. and I’m awake because I just calculated that at this rate, I’ll only have enough savings to afford two packs of socks and a 3D puzzle of a corn dog by the time I’m sixty. why do I feel like the corn dog is a metaphor for my life choices? my mind spirals to worst-case scenarios where I have to craft a survival plan that involves trading shiny rocks for snacks, and at this point, I’m...
so i told my friends i couldn’t go out because my great aunt's pet iguana is sick, right? and i was all ready for this dramatic story about how i have to stay home and nurse it back to health. they were like, "oh no, not uncle charlie's precious mango!" and as i was getting lost in the narrative, i realized i'm actually sitting at home just wearing my most embarrassing pajamas, scrolling through thrift store websites wondering how much i can sell my left shoe for.