wish i could say i didn't miss the ceramics studio
still wearing these boots from 2016 🫠
lip gloss melted into coat
roommates' friend took my milk again 😬
lamp cord tangled. unplugged my life
just realized i've been pronouncing 'aesthetic' wrong my whole life 💀
the avocado toast here costs $18 now and i didn't even get any fucking cilantro
stuck on the j train with a man humming "bohemian rhapsody"
the coffee maker gurgles like an asthmatic smoker
coffee maker. won't stop blinking.
the radiator ticks like time's stuck
saw an old man wearing a beret on the subway.
the ceramic studio email again. they found the bowl i left behind in 2021 and are threatening to sell it at their upcoming kiln emptying sale unless i come claim it or give them permission to discard it.
lamp flickering. anxiety climbing.
the coffee maker taunts me with its empty carafe
the mug in the sink. stares me down every morning
saw a squirrel eating an apple core in the street today and now i can't stop thinking about the ecosystem's tiny failures
wish i could burn down the office instead of going in tomorrow
new piercing hurts like hell
landlord's idea of repairs is replacing my door with one from home depot
pinky toe went numb in the studio today
toaster burns toast. again.
just saw my ex's new girlfriend at the farmer's market and she was buying an obscene amount of kale 💀
bought three john waters books for $20 at mccarren park flea market
neighbor's cat on my stoop
landlords are just vampires in suits
landlord left a note on my door for not recycling
woke to find roommate ate my leftover pad thai 😬
mom's new cat already hates me
bought new glasses today
found a 2015 draft of my okcupid profile in an old laptop
sorry for existing
cracked my screen protector again. must be the way i hold my phone while scrolling through linkedin job listings.
walked into the kitchen this morning, roommates already on their third pot of coffee arguing about which dystopia we're actually living in
😬 just realized i've been wearing two different socks all day
just tried to order lunch from my favorite deli, now realize it closed last month 💀
hate this office chair
dinner plans ruined by roommate's sudden veganism 😬
my roommate's cat knocked over my succulent again
😬 just signed another NDA. welcome to america
mug from goodwill already cracked
wish i could unsee my roommate's new boyfriend in just his socks
moved my plant to the window it hates me now
downtown on the q train
fell asleep on the subway again, woke up in bushwick with a new tattoo of an eggplant emoji. great.
intricate earrings clink against cheap headphones
left my glasses at the bar on 31st
saw my neighbor's cat licking its ass on the fire escape
living room rug is 10x dead
astoria bus at 2am
coworker wore "power" socks to meeting 💀
found 50 cents in the couch cushions today 💰
coffee table still broken
dancing alone with the vacuum
just discovered our office printer has been printing out pages of 'the da Vinci code' all along.
🫠 landlord sent another passive-aggressive reminder to take down my plants
dishwasher leaking again, management said "tell us when it's a crisis." guess who's drowning
🫠 landlord again asking for rent at 10pm
found another 3-legged cat at the park 🥰
watering roommates' plants while mine die again
the radiator clangs and i'm back in my grandparents' basement, trying not to think about how much money we all make now compared to them
saw margaret at the coffee shop again today, her hair still braided from last week's festival where she said they played too many songs about the ocean and not enough about how climate change is gonna drown us all anyway 😬
found the ceramic studio's email again, subject line: "we still have your bowls." 💀
kissed a plant today
roommate's cacti blooming again
cat killed a mouse
😬 broke the espresso machine again
reheating chinese takeout from last night's date who asked me out again because apparently i "have good opinions on noodles"
forgot to cancel amazon fresh again
just found out my favorite local coffee shop is closing, going to mourn over an iced oat milk latte
😬 coffee grounds all over kitchen counter
landlord's daughter brought me brownies
the security guard at work says i look like i'm going to stab him with my pen
mold growing on avocado
june's rent increase: 💀
ordered coffee black for three months now but still haven't mastered not making face when first sip
landlady raised rent again, i'm moving out
kissed a stranger's tattoo
friday night: pizza in bed watching anime with roommate while other roommates scream at each other down the hall
astoria bodega cat
landlord called at 7am to remind me my rent was due
tried to explain my job to my mom for the sixth time in five years
woke up to the cat sitting on my head again
💀 spilled soy sauce on my favorite sweatshirt
saw my neighbor's cat in the alley last night, finally understand why it always hissed at me
moved my desk today for the first time since i got covid in march 2021 and realized there was a dead spider on my window sill
in the office kitchen someone's left an unopened bag of coffee marked "decaf" with no indication who it belongs to or how long it's been there waiting for me to make a choice
my first roommate moved out and left a chair i still half believe she lived in
the new ceramic shelf finally holds my mismatched mugs all in one row
playlist i made for someone who listens to everything at once
the new band i put on a repeat playlist because nothing else felt interesting
the new bass amp hums like my mom when nobody's home 🫠
the plant that outlived my last three moves
the basil on my windowsill actually has more leaves than i have outfits
the ceramics studio sent yet another update called "welcome back"
the succulent i overwatered into oblivion on thursday 💀
a pot holding three dying plants and one hope
dressed like spring all week then finally met a jacket that understood my mornings
repotted a plant into a mug and called it an upgrade
my half-finished zine finally made it to paper so now my roommate has opinions on kerning i never quite got right
the zine came back from the printer with three typos and i found them all on page four where nobody ever looked
the cat owns the house now. even i know that. 🫠
ceramics class on thursday nights
the camera ate my subject again after twenty years of dodging it with her hands and now she's the only thing that ever remembers how to focus
the kitchen table survives two roommates and still calls itself solid wood
asked for the whole story and left with only "interesting"
the fern lives again
left the camera at home again, said i didn't want another excuse to miss something
marcel dichoux of the ceramics studio
our roommate named after the band plays guitar backward at 2am
the chair with a cracked backrest and no backup
a plant named after a band i can't keep alive 💀
basil in a glass on the kitchen counter
the plant that survived the winter and looks confused
management says we'll have flexibility now that everyone works from home, and here i am still the one with coffee on the desk while my younger roommate stretches like he's never been laid off once in his life.
saturday night at my ceramics table 🫠
asked my mom what she thought of the new job and watched her blink before answering
the ficus survived again while i finally finished a chapter
the zine i made in 2019 still on my phone somewhere
bass amp in the corner now hums like a third roommate and refuses to quit
marginalia on a book i only finished halfway
the pothos dropped one leaf, happy to know i only water twice 🫠
watched the train leave without getting on
asked the barista for water and he just smiled like i was the weird one