My So Called Life
All the random ass shit that happens. Read at your own risk.
Day-to-day dispatches from a life that is technically ordinary and somehow never boring. Work problems, relationship observations, aging indignities, boundary violations, and the occasional moment of genuine clarity that makes all the rest of it worth it. The catch-all category for everything that doesn't fit neatly anywhere else — which, honestly, describes most of real life.Game Over, Try Again
My tolerance for the bullshit is wearing thin. The neighbor who is incapable of managing her emotions today felt the need to, in front of the council and the few attendees who had arrived by that time, show her true colors in public. How embarrassing… for her.
The Neighborhood Council Files: Sabbatical, Interrupted
A community census turns into a loyalty test, a council president who doesn't believe in deadlines, and a passive-aggressive neighbor, all in one 1am-ending day.
With Neighbors Like These, Who Needs Enemies
A neighbor tries the fake-storytelling playbook to change my no to a yes. She's an amateur going up against someone with an advanced degree in this.
Rest In Peace, And Other Lies They Tell
A woman dies in the Colonia, and the neighborhood suddenly remembers her fondly. I don't. Some truths don't get nicer just because someone stopped breathing.
Tales From Patient Zero
The demands of working through illness and being the source of spreading sickness.
