This month meant a lot of recovery from the fundraiser (for me and for everyone here) and getting things prepped for the sending out of the A+ and fundraiser perks which was harder than it should have been for me because the City of Pittsburgh decided to dig a trench outside of my house, meaning that the only way in or out of my home was by walking across a slippery wooden plank (because I live on the side of a mountain so the only way out the back is to climb up and no), meaning that in addition to the act of getting groceries turning into a literal gymnastics event, I also had to delay ordering some shipping supplies, etc. But, the plank is gone and my exit and entry abilities are more or less restored and I’ve begun preparations in earnest! This month, Kayla’s been spearheading our holigays coverage, and we’re getting ready for all things year’s end lists. We’re also preparing for this year’s 13 Days of A+ — the third year of our celebratory 13 consecutive days of A+ content and virtual events. This year, we’re going to be running an A+ Pop-up Discord for the entire 13 days, from December 13th – December 26th, and are hosting at least 3 virtual events on the discord. On December 13th, we’re kicking things off with an A+ book club meet with our Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya! Then, on the 15th, Laneia and Kayla will host a snow globe making workshop which I am intrigued and excited by! How do you make snow globes? We’ll find out! We’re also going to have a watch-along with The L Word Gen Q episode on December 16th because don’t you want to be living, laughing, crying, screaming at the TV together? More info about those last two events coming soon, but save the dates for now!

This month, we had two A+ advice boxes, and this coming month’s theme is practical holigay advice. So far we’ve been asked about how to throw a quality house party, how to cope with relatives who are into QAnon, and how to upgrade your luggage situation for travel. What kinds of nuts and bolts things can we help you with? We’d love to know! Send those questions into the A+ box by December 6th.

Nine Important Excerpts From Editorial Conversations

Kayla: Heather, I have a very important question: Was there ever any lesbian cheerleader activity on Pretty Little Liars?
Heather: amazing question! unfortunately there were not. just predatory men coaches!
Kayla: lol damn
Heather: still tho. best question anyone’s ever asked me on a monday morning!

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Kayla: ok because it came up in the interview and I always feel the need to share this fun fact: in chicago, there briefly WAS a “Sapphic Grindr” and it was called……….Scissor. But spelled like Scssr or something like that. I was on it. It only existed in chicago and only lasted like a year lmfao
It was how I met ferret girl for anyone who knows that story
Nico: oh damn
bring back scssr
scrsrssfscr

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Kayla: hello pals, this is just a reminder (or perhaps the first time you’re hearing this if you are Viv/Anya) that the Ultimate Team Gift Guide is something that we all as senior staff participate in! I just dropped the call in backpage for our writers but it also applies to us 😘
Nico: woohoo
i need an electrician
or three items from the A+ marketplace and three books perhaps
Laneia: omg i need a contractor
Kayla: i need a mattress
Riese: i need a hero, holding on for a hero til the end of the night

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Nico: fyi i moved our editorial meet on the calendar because I think Laneia set it but she does not follow daylight savings lol
so i set it to the time the rest of us would think it would be
Laneia: oh weird i thought i set everything using los angeles as the time zone
Nico: idk but it was saying today’s meet was at 1pm EST when it is always at 2pm
Laneia: sometimes i think google workspace just doesn’t want to be my friend
thank you for updating it
Nico: I’m sorry
Kayla: I love that the way this is worded makes it seem like Laneia just personally doesn’t observe daylights savings
I know it’s an Arizona thing but that’s how it reads
Laneia: honestly it does sound like something i would take a stand on
Kayla: Just like mmmmm no thanks
Heather: if there’s anyone i’ve ever known who would adhere to their own personal convictions on daylight savings, it’s absolutely laneia
Riese: i am upset it wasn’t on the ballot this year in california again
because i am passionate about ending daylight saving time and apparently nobody else is
Laneia: i refused to say the pledge of allegiance in elementary school once i figured out what it meant to actually pledge my allegiance and the teachers were very upset but i was like you cannot make meeeeee
Kayla: I’m a toxic person who likes it
Daylight saving not the pledge of allegiance

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Carmen: ugghhh I do not have even a minute to spare but some real fucked up troll is in our comments right now
por ejemplo:

Carmen: in case anyone can help take out the trash
Riese: lolol
i AM SPECIAL FOR BEING A FAGGOT IN THIS WORLD
honestly this is probably a russian troll farm
did you guys see the undeclared war on peacock
it showed how the russian troll farms work and it is WILD
anyhow i can delete this guy if you want but i also think he’s kinda so terrible he’s funny
***everyone arrives for the meeting***
Viv: here
Kayla: also here
Laneia: here oui
Nico: heeere
Carmen: hi
Nico: love to kill god or whatever it is us faggots are doing on this fine thursday afternoon

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Ro: Buds, I have a question for people who know The L Word! My next “Gay B C’s of Sex” column is covering the term “gold star lesbian”. I found a quote from Season 5 of The L Word in which Grace refers to a former partner as a “gold star” in a conversation with Max, but I SWEAR the term also shows up in an earlier season — maybe Shane says it? I just can’t find the quote. Does anyone happen to know of an earlier L Word episode that included the term “gold star lesbian?”
Dani Janae: I’m pretty sure it shows up somewhere in season 2!
Natalie: It’s “Lonestar,” episode 307.
Ro: Well, holy shit!
Kayla: damn natalie
Ro: Natalie, you’re amazing.
Natalie: Carmen de la Pica Morales had quite a hold on me is all I’m saying.
Carmen: (I got a ping for Carmen)
Lily: Furious to this day that her name is literally “Carmen of the spice”
Carmen: as you should be
TLW really had spicy carmen and lil papi running through the 00s and said “there! representation! be quiet now”
Kayla: spicy carmen gets me every time
Lily: Iwould’vebeen more satisfied if they googled most common Latinx last names and go with Garcia or Gonzalez or something
But her character does have a chokehold on me
Stef: she simply deserved better all around

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A.Tony: is this the place i come to say javicia leslie has broken up w her boyfriend and i, as well as at least 50 black queers, are anxiously awaiting her lemme date all the ladies/theydies era
Nic: WHAT
A.Tony: becausethat’swhat my friday has been (the entire two hoursi’vebeen awake)
Nic: ahem.
Meagan is also single.
Carmen: J
WHAT
J
Sorry
A.Tony: ahem
Carmen: let me
ummm
A.Tony: EXACTLY
Carmen: wait
Nic: Help
Oh no
Carmen
What do we do
Carmen: nah i can’t be professional about this
let me exit my ass up out the freeform
yall have a good day!
Kayla: Carmen is about to become Spicy Carmen
Stef: LMAO
A. Tony: spicy carmen we will look away from the spiciness but please come back
Carmen: wait i want to circle back on this joke, because i screamed
Kayla: it’s gonna be your new alter ego
Carmen: i love this for me, i could do worse

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Kayla: i do sometimes wish we could do reductress-style posts lmao
Laneia: can we not? or we could make a new fake writer and all she does is reductress stuff and she drags everyone and we just let her do it
like carol but human
her name could also be carol
Kayla: lmaooo
Laneia: remember when we thought karen frost was fake
Nico: why can’t we?
Laneia’s right let’s make a fake writer
for all our bullshit
Riese: we used to have one
her name was Intern Veronica
Nico: WHAT
Kayla: That’s a hilarious fake name

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Sally: This [the 13 Days of A+] usually runs at the start of December, yes?
Nico: Starts December 13, and I have a hole on Sunday December 18 which is yours if you want it, but also no pressure!!
Sally: If I fill that hole then I get to make a hole-filling joke, right?
Nico: I can think of nothing more fitting
Sally: Just some feedback, I think leading with the potential to make a dirty joke will pay dividends for you
Nico: Hahaha i should have come in here with that
Should have led with the hole
Sally: Always lead with the hole!

What We’re Reading

Queer Fashion of the 2000’s

Laneia: i need to make a goddamn word search for tomorrow AND ANYWAY I’D LOVE YOUR HELP especially if you are YOUNGER THAN ME which by my calculations is all but one of you (high five to heather hogan).
the theme is 2010s LESBIAN FASHION — is this a dubious theme, given that ‘lesbian fashion’ at that time was primarily WHITE LESBIAN FASHION yes !! yes it is!! let’s make it less white!!!!! PLEASE HELP pls and i’m sorry and pls.
THREAD ANY WORDS OR PHRASES — no more than 12 letters total pls — RIGHT HERE!
SKINNY JEANS
WHITE V NECK
SKINNY SCARF (!!)
Carmen: fedora
bowtie
Laneia: CHELSEA BOOT ????????? oh maybe it’s CHUCK TAYLORS
Kayla: wait is it 2010s or like 2000-2010
Carmen: def chucks
Laneia: kayla great question, i was only gay from 2006 onward, so i’m not sure what you hotties were doing in the first 6 yrs of the century
Kayla: lol i mean i was only gay from 2014 onward!
Carmen: I was i high school (sorry Laneia) and straight
Laneia: LOL
we are all doing great
Kayla: but i just associate a lot of the things that have been listed as pre-2010 but maybe i’m tripping
Carmen: KAYLA DON’T TELL US
WHERE YOU WERE
IN 2006
Kayla: lmaoooo
Laneia: i think ‘early 2000s ish lesbian fashion’ is also a vibe it’s an energy
Carmen: Oh that is interesting kayla because i associate all of that as like early AS
Kayla: being a real bitch as the editor in chief of my 8th grade year book is where i was
Carmen: which is like 2009/10
wait WE WERE BOTH EIC OF OUR 8TH GRADE YEARBOOK
Carmen: i love this for us
Kayla: OK WORDS AND PHRASES. gauchos
Carmen: ooof gauchos
Laneia: were the lesbians wearing gauchos??????????????
oh my sweet lord
Kayla: WERE WE NOT
Laneia: (i mean i was but i thought it was bc i was a mom)
Kayla: i bought a pair of “utility gauchos” from urban outfitters in 2015
i was OUT
Laneia: oh CHOKE oh fuck yes oh my god
you’re right
i think i had the same pair KAYLA WERE THEY CAMO
Carmen: Docs
Kayla: they weren’t camo but they were “”army green””
Laneia: god we really are on our own journey but also together
Kayla: ok not her just saying AVRIL LAVIGNE
Laneia: she’s right
Carmen: correct
eyeliner
Anya: maybe this is just general 2010s but i feel like brightly colored tights had a moment????
Laneia: those fucking belts
Anya: or like fishnets even???
Carmen: studded belts
Kayla: oh yeah tights def had a moment
Laneia: american apparel neon yes
Carmen: yes anya they did! i was walking up and down brooklyn in yellow and purple tights
Anya: YES
i wore awful tights
Kayla: does chapstick count as fashion
Laneia: absolute gays, all of u
Anya: and legwarmers………..
Kayla: I DID LEGWARMERS TOO ANYA
Carmen: yikes yall lol
Anya: oh god kayla it was so bad
Laneia: raise your hand for ballet flats
Carmen: BALLET FLATS
a lifestyle
Kayla: i can smell them rn
Laneia: need more specific accessories like what were we doing with bracelets/necklaces
Carmen: I wore feathers lol
like feather earrings
Laneia: the SINGLE FEATHER EARRING
an entire personality
Anya: FAKE GLASSES
LIKE WITH NO LENSES
Kayla: i did have fake glasses from 2009-2011
joke’s on me, can’t see now
Kayla: was blue lipstick a thing or was it just me
Anya: it was for me lol kayla
Kayla: anya it sounds like we were very compatible fashion-wise
Carmen: and red lipstick
bold colors in general
Kayla: Oh yeah I also had black lipstick

Heather: you look like you’re about to play baseball with the cullens!
Carmen: holy shit
Kayla: HEATHER
Heather: (compliment)
Kayla: HUGE COMPLIMENT
Laneia: unwell @ the fact we don’t have any cullen/bella emojis AND THAT’S ON ME

What We’ve Been Watching

PR Emails That Lost Their Way

More often than we’d like, people email us about things that demonstrate they might be missing the point.

Vanessa: WHY IS THIS LEAH DEGRUCHY’S JOB
Nico: Why is 69 so safe lol
Stef: yeah, feels like the numbers are a bit fucked here
Nico: I would think that there would be more accidental leg to face injuries but who am I, certainly not a sex injury researcher
Vanessa: oh my god she sent another email this morning
Kayla: pls tell me it’s a correction
Stef: lmao, turns out doggy is actually the safest
Niko: important Update !We’ve learned of a new, more dangerous position

Vanessa: LEAH.I AM UNWELL.BECAUSE OF U.
Stef: where did the younger people learn it was appropriate to say “I hope you are well.” no matter the context??
shea: Idk but my emails to professors and colleagues start with “I hope you’re doing as well as possible as the world crumbles around us.”
Stef: see, that’s good!
they should do that

Nicolodeon

This is just a doodle from Nico’s notebook :) They hope it brightens your day!

KKU LookBook

The theme of this LookBook continues to be: I DON’T OWN A FULL LENGTH MIRROR. My writer friend Anna says that I should continue to no longer own a full length mirror because it encourages creativity in taking these outfit pics, and you know what? AGREE. P.S. Are you curious about the oyster art now prominently featured in these photos? It’s by Richmond-based artist Molly Reeder.

Look 1: It’s “fall” in Florida, and you know what that means! Sweaters with miniskirts! I bought the skirt (which is denim but with some stretch) and sweater (which is cropped and turtlenecked) secondhand, but here are some close approximations: Zara cropped sweater ($30); ASOS red and white striped sweater ($52); ASOS corduroy cream mini skirt ($35); Levi’s utility mini skirt ($48). The platform white sneakers are Steve Madden ($37) and I’m also wearing my new lips ring that I got to celebrate the release of my book! It’s from Hellcats, a local shop here in Orlando with really cool stuff.

Look 2: This mustard dress!!!!!! Did I ALSO feature her in last month’s lookbook? Yes. But I’ll tell you what, I am just feeling so great about the fact that I am wearing a color that I avoided for so long because people told me I’d look awful in it which is SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What color have you been told you “can’t wear” and is it true or is it based on people’s weird opinions????? I say, wear it! If you want a mustard mini dress of your own, here’s one for $29. The heels are also Steve Madden ($50).

Look 3: The thing about living in Florida is that every season is Jean Cutoffs season. I am partial to a light-washed ripped denim short (Levi’s, on sale for $48). I belted these with a plain black belt ($48), and even though I have gotten rid of most of the clothes I wore in college, I inexplicably have kept this sort of weird fuzzy black cropped sweater that is slightly glittery and ALMOST off-the-shoulder but not quite? Hard to explain and nearly impossible to find a dupe, but this UO cropped fuzzy cardigan ($69 nice) is cute. Boots are Cole Haan on sale from a couple seasons ago, but I found similar ones on sale for $130.

Meet A New(ish) Contributor!

Get to know some of our newest faces.

Lily Alvarado, Writer

What is your favorite kind of sandwich?

I’m from the Bronx, so if you’re from there, or from NYC in general, YOU KNOW I love a good bodega bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll. I specifically like mine with ketchup or hot sauce, but an old coworker of mine put me on to having avocado in it. It’s so good.

What’s the worst date you’ve ever been on?

I used to try to like men (I’d get into “why” but that’d be a whole psychoanalysis). During my freshman year of college, I was on Tinder and matched with this frat boy who was a junior at the time. He majored in Computer Science, and I did a poor attempt at flirting by telling him he could teach me how computers work since I’m not tech savvy (I’m still not tech savvy). After some talking, he invited me to a party at his frat house. It took a while to find him, and when I did find him, it was terrible. We awkwardly danced and I took random sips of his beer each time the conversation died. I could barely hear him because of all the noise. Every time he opened his mouth, I thought about how bad he smelled and how overwhelming my surroundings were. Eventually, I just walked away and got pizza with a couple friends. He ended up at the pizza shop with his frat brothers, and, in flight or flight mode, I chose flight. An Uber came within minutes. Getting on to head back to my dorm, leaving my friends and Frat Boy baffled, I was also leaving behind, yet another, failed attempt at liking men.

What’s something you’ve been really proud of lately?

I’m really proud of my communities. I’m so so proud of the resilience, triumphs, and compassion I’ve seen in my queer, Latinx, and autistic communities. It inspires and carries me every day.

What would be your superpower and why?

I am not a Marvel fan in the slightest, but everything I’ve ever heard about Wanda Maximoff is just so cool. I want her ability to manipulate reality. Not in a colonial sense where I’m basically God and I have absolute control of everything, but maybe just enough where I can change the weather or make the lives of the 1% a living hell.

If you could only use one emoji for the rest of your life, what would it be?

The standing emoji. I use it all the damn time and it encapsulates all the awkwardness I feel on a daily basis.

Failure Is An Art Form

We are here to normalize trying, failing, trying, and failing again!

“I spectacularly failed at National Novel Writing Month. It’s almost like November is the month right after a fundraiser and also a month that contained a great many social and family obligations. Never fear though, I can just make December a novel-writing month where I finally get back to this beast.” – Nico

I am not surprised, y’all.

Haunted / Not Haunted

In October, no haunted photos appeared on my timelines, which is weird and ironic, but don’t you worry — November’s potential hauntings have returned full force. Below are some things I found in the course of my every day internet travels, and nowNicowill share their expertise and diagnosis them as either HAUNTED or NOT HAUNTED.

#1 Pizza Place Basement…Featuring a Cage of Dolls Because Everything is Fine

Also, Hanny’s on 1st Street has a doll dungeon in their basement and while it’s not a big thing, it’s still creepy. pic.twitter.com/eGGnek8xqs

— Aaron Mahnke (@amahnke) May 27, 2018

Heather: I was recently shocked to learn that the best pizza in the United States is in Phoenix at Pizzeria Bianco, but that’s what the new Netflix Chef’s Table: Pizza told me. So I was looking for a way to buy physical gift cards to this pizza place and stumbled across what one GrubHub reviewer calls, “The WORST of Downton Phoenix.” It’s a bar called Hanny’s that has — and I quote — a “doll dungeon” in the basement. (Also apparently the servers dress up like doctors??)

Nico: Do gods demand veneration because they are real, or are they made real by veneration? These pennies, these bills, speak to countless visitors paying homage — out of fear or otherwise — to these dolls come idols. If they did not begin as shells inhabited by some kind of spirit or spirits, they are now home to such entities. Laneia stopped into the channel to say that she, had, in fact been there. She attests that the “whole place is haunted, and the doll dungeon may be the least haunted part” (again, see appeasement of entities via offerings). Laneia also said, “there’s a glass bottom elevator, the bathrooms are lit like a david lynch fever dream insideand out…and i did love my salad” — so there you have it. The place is haunted top to bottom, but if or when the shit hits the fan, slip the dolls a doll-ar and hunker down with them.

#2 Ride that Pikachu

Heather: Knock-off Pikachus always kinda creep me out, and this is an entire… stable of them? What’s going on here? This is not Ash Ketchum-approved.

Nico: Did anyone else see the throttle, the wheels? These are, in fact, vehicles. That does not preclude their ability to be haunted, however. If it’s one thing Stephen King has taught us, it’s that vehicles can also be haunted. I sense, though, that these things are hollow, haunted only by the desperation of the crafters and sellers trying to make a buck off a global enterprise.

#3 Ribbed for Her Pleasure

Heather: God creating Eve from Adam’s rib, bohemia, ca. 1420 (viaWeird Medieval Guys)

Nico: Besides the fact that this reply is golden:

Same energy pic.twitter.com/NffBnAsYKW

— Sarah Worthington (@sairzstowell) November 26, 2022

Bonus: Twitter HQ

Nico: It’s been hard for me to watch the demise of Twitter at the hands of Elon Musk without also thinking about the time I was in the Twitter building for a separate meeting with a different company. My shoes had holes in the bottoms, I was exhausted — bone tired in the way the Bay Area will make you if you don’t have anything close to resembling the amount of money someone in tech makes — and the elevator doors opened onto the Twitter HQ where several men were just plain playing ping pong in the middle of the day. Someone got on the elevator and I watched them play with each other, faces lit up like school boys, until the elevator doors closed. I thought about my choices, about theirs. Twitter is important for a number of reasons: it is in some ways, the best way to spread information and news that we have. It has allowed many people to speak truth to power. We will also survive without it, or with it operating at a reduced capacity, but it really is a shame we can have what are basically public highways of communication ruined by a single arrogant man, but that is the world we live in…for now. I may have little faith in Musk, but I have a great deal of faith in humans in general, and I believe we’ll find a way.

A Delight Tucked Into a Time Away Notice That I Did Not See Coming

The “TIME AWAY” channel in Slack is used by our senior staff to inform one another when we are stepping out of the office for longer than an hour, often to participate in crucial life tasks. This is one of the many ways that we organized this office to function virtually, since we lack the ability to literally see our co-workers leave for lunch. It is where we tell each other that we are showering, or going to the grocery store, or to a doctor’s appointment. Then we tell each other that we are back! Except sometimes instead of “back” we say “becca” or “becks” or “bach” because language is a party. It’s not a social channel, but sometimes it becomes a weird kind of conversation I personally (riese) find every entertaining!

Here are some highlights from the Time Away channel (the […] indicate gaps in time, usually of 1-4 hours.) from the past few months.

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Riese: exercising + showering

[…]

Nico: showering and ducking out for a walk

[…]

Kayla: Back

[…]

Riese: guess who’s back
Carmen: back again
shady’s back
tell a friend
(sorry)
Riese: :smirk:
Kayla: michigan vibe

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Nico: Potato breakk
Laneia: nico when u say potato break
is this a harvest
Kayla: yeah i too have been wondering about these potato breaks
is it just more gnocchi
Laneia: i’m over here envisioning nico out there in a hat, maybe a scarf, a little handheld cultivator, knees on the ground; kayla’s envisioning nico in a lap apron, floured hands, gnocchi board

[…]

Nico: whoops i did not actually go on break
real potato break starts now
Laneia: the mystery persists

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Laneia: god i guess i’m going to move my body on purpose for an hour despite really, really not wanting to do that today
it’s so stupid that no one gives you a free personal pan pizza when you do something you really, really don’t want to do! we live in a crumbling society
Nico: it’s true
once, i sent a particularly difficult email, and went to the fridge and pulled out a whole kombucha and said to sadie, ‘i am having a kombucha because i was brave’

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Laneia: she showers! she eats a food!

[…]

Viv: quick stop to pick up package but am on my phone

[…]

Laneia: becca

[…]

Viv: actually never left

[…]

Riese: walking my tiny dog

Riese: jk i’m still here

[…]

Laneia: lies in here today

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Heather: running out to the post office real quick
(walking slowly with an ice scarf around my neck to the post office with mild quickness)

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Nico: food break as I stand like the wife of a ship’s captain, staring out at the gray sea, wondering if these designs will ever make their way safely ashore and home, back into my arms

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Laneia: i have to shower and not kill anyone
Carmen: damn maybe i should shower
shower + popcorn

[…]

Laneia: omg i smell amazing

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Laneia: jumping in the shower

[…]

Laneia: beck

[…]

Riese: i am gonna LEAP into the shower
Laneia: gazelle!

[…]

Heather: shutting slack to free up memory for zoomin’ with these homosexual canadians, be back in a few hours!

[…]

Laneia: going to lie face-down in a hole for a bit

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Laneia: gazing at my big rock candy admin mountain, i’ve decided to take a couple of hours to eat and exercise and do laundry. i’ll be back at noon, undoubtedly an improved version of myself

[…]

Laneia: look at how improved i am

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Viv: Gonna shower before full check in

[…]

Nico: also showering before retreat kick off

[…]

Kayla: also showering before retreat lol

[…]

Anya: you’ll never guess, i too am showering

[…]

Nico: gettin some tea and a biscotti probs and then will be back

[…]

Laneia: getting an oil change

[…]

Viv: stepping out to buy a nicotine vape because I am addicted

[…]

Laneia: oh lol i have been back as well
SINCE 11:30

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Heather: running out to get my hairs cut ’cause i’m gonna be the local news about long covid tomorrow morning. i’ve only ever been on the local news once, in sixth grade. i sang the star spangled banner and won a ten dollar gift card to hardee’s on WDUN, North Georgia’s Newstalk. i gotta have better hairs this time.

[…]

Carmen: that was a delight tucked into a Time Away Notice that I did not see coming
Kayla: i want an essay comparing and contrasting the two times you’ve been on the local news
Nico: the only time i was every on the local news they did one of those edits to me
like from the scooby doo live action film
where they made fred say “i think coolsville sucks”
be careful Heather!!! I never trust those people!!!
Kayla: in high school i was in the background of a news report on Access Hollywood during the Anna Nicole Smith Supreme Court trial
Nico: HOW
Kayla: I attended the Anna Nicole Smith trial at the Supreme Court because I wanted to learn more about the U.S. justice system
this was not for school. i elected to do this myself. my mother took me
Nico: A perfect example

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Nico: talking, laughing, loving, breathing, fighting, fucking crying, showering

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Nico: Gnocchi: The Re-Potatoeing: Part 2

[…]

Viv: Fusilli break

[…]

Nico: back but actually a house in our neighborhood went up in flames and i ruined the gnocchi
i hope everyone’s ok
Viv: Dang! My pasta is okay, hope things are okay for you too
Laneia: Nico!

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Riese: hello some personal news: a few weeks back i was complaining about having a UTI and despite receiving treatment for said UTI, it remains, and apparently my doctor requires me to give a brand new urine sample to receive further treatment which means i will now be driving to beverly hills in the middle of the afternoon to provide this
Slackbot [automated response]: Sounds like somebody could use a :cranberry-juice:.
Laneia: oh no

[…]

Nico: back
also geeze I am sorry about that riese
Laneia: peeing in a cup in beverly hills though
:cheers:

[…]

Riese: i am back from this event
thank you everybody for your support!

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Carmen: I think… I should eat something? I haven’t yet today. So I’m gonna do that. Be back in roughly an hour.

[…]

Carmen: Ok I spoke too soon because it’s an hour later and I have still not left or eaten, but (drumroll) I am doing those things now!

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Laneia: i will now move my body around on purpose even though it is bleeding so if they ask where to send the achievement award pls give them my correct address

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Kayla: it is unfortunately time for me to do laundry

[…]

Kayla: I have returned from hell

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Nico: exercising showering etc

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Riese: also doing a physical effort and subsequent cleanup

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Nico: back and would have been back sooner if the shower water had not started coming out brown while I was mid-showerrrrrr
Kayla: nooooo
Nico: it’s like my own lil personal saw movie

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Laneia: she is working out she is moving the body on purpose she’s glad of it this is what she wants to be doing she is pleased with her choices she is not annoyed or resentful because she is good vibes only

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Laneia: i’m going to cvs to get the wellbutrin it took me 2 weeks to fill and now 1 week to pick up
Carmen: I have to take a medication that I’ve been dragging my heels on FOR A MONTH and once again, laneia, you are the representation I needed most.

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nico: goin to take a walk

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laneia: gonna shower like a human person thing

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riese: shower

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laneia: back wow, so clean

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riese: buck

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nico: back

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Heather: back
just kidding i wanted to be part of the party

Keep Them Guessing!

XOXO

Team Autostraddle