not gonna lie, I have a ritual of cracking open a bottle of wine the second I get home from work. nothing says "successful day" like a solo dinner of frozen pizza and a Netflix series I've seen three times. my doctor asked me about my liver last week. I laughed and told him I don’t really have a relationship with my liver anyway. if it stops functioning, guess I’ll just start recycling my wine bot...
yoo, so I finally kicked myself out of this two-year cycle of emotional chaos, but bruh, the aftermath is a disaster. Lost my partner, my friends turned into strangers, and now I can’t look in the mirror without feeling like a total shadow of myself. I just binge-watched the entire season of a trash reality show on Hulu in one night and thought, “is this really my life?” I ordered takeout three ni...
it's not that i thought the doctor would call and tell me the lump was cancer. it’s just that i had already picked out the hospital food i would hate. sitting there, heart racing, remembering every last episode of medical dramas I binged. when he said “it’s just a cyst,” i almost laughed, like why wasn’t i more worried about whether the doctor liked chai or coffee? some things just feel heavy, and it’s so bizarre how a phone call can suddenly lift that weight, making me feel lighter than a paper kite on a windy day.
it's not that i thought the doctor would call and tell me the lump was cancer. it’s just that i had already picked out the hospital food i would hate. sitting there, heart racing, remembering every last episode of medical dramas I binged. when he said “it’s just a cyst,” i almost laughed, like why wasn’t i more worried about whether the doctor liked chai or coffee? some things just feel heavy, and it’s so bizarre how a phone call can suddenly lift that weight, making me feel lighter than a paper kite on a windy day.
cybersecurity firms like CrowdStrike and FireEye tout their heroics in the war against cyber crime while their CEOs, like George Kurtz and Kevin Mandia, pocket astronomical salaries over 10 million dollars per year. but let’s not ignore that they profit immensely from a broken system that fails to secure their clients. these companies thrive on fear and chaos, all while pretending they are the gua...