One day you're young and vibrant, the next you're eating dinner early because at 7 pm you're joining a Zoom with the local library about an early 19th century British female paleontologist.
Spent the entire 1990s fighting with my parents over finishing my green beans. Meanwhile, I just watched my mother pick every single pea out of the lunch I made her.
PLEASE stop asking me about Christmas plans. I have Big City job! I wear stilettos! I have a proposal due on December 25th! The only breaks I’ll be taking are for coffee. Maybe at the new St. Nick’s Sweets & Sips that just opened…I hope it isn’t run by a hunk who loves Christmas
That moment of surrender when you realize you're going to have to get out of your car and scrape the ice off the windshield, because the heater isn't enough.
Zohran Mamdani saying in his victory speech “While you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme” and the crowd letting out a muted, slightly baffled cheer is so funny. It spoke to me, at least.