Nora Jane Whitaker · 2026-09

@nora-jane

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