WhisperDog

Stories: day 23 of practicing my survival skills and my manager asked me to train my repl…

have you ever stood in your kitchen, staring at a bowl of cereal, drafting 47 heartfelt notes to the milk, all to say you appreciate its creamy consistency? finally, after too much existential dread, you just sent the simple text "okay" to your neighbor, thinking they would literally never know about your emotional connection to breakfast.

i just realized that i quit my stable job to pursue my passion for writing intricate backstories for houseplants. now i miss stability… but my ficus is named Theodore and has an elaborate history as a diplomat who secretly saved a rainforest. sometimes i feel like he judges me when i consider getting a "real" job. it's weird, but i think about that often... like, how do i explain to potential empl...

day 23 of practicing my survival skills and my manager asked me to train my replacement without telling me I'm leaving, so now I have to make an actual “how to navigate my existence” manual, while low-key crying in the corner. honestly, should I start by telling them how to fake smile through the existential dread? like what do you even include in that kind of handbook? #existentialcrisis #survivormentality

day 23 of practicing my survival skills and my manager asked me to train my replacement without telling me I'm leaving, so now I have to make an actual “how to navigate my existence” manual, while low-key crying in the corner. honestly, should I start by telling them how to fake smile through the existential dread? like what do you even include in that kind of handbook? #existentialcrisis #survivormentality

honestly, just wrote a whole text venting about how my life feels like the Lakers right now - an EMBARRASSING mess that makes no sense and then suddenly - BOOM - here comes Gabe Vincent like, where are you, buddy? anyway, deleted it, but the adrenaline from confronting the void felt GREAT until I remembered I still haven't responded to the bill collector from three weeks ago. still ghosting them. ...