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Narrator: it was not, in fact, the year she finished 😅 Hoping newly-minted mom powers come January carry me across the finish line in 2023! + a reminder: your degree is not worth your mental health. It’s okay to make choices + not allow everything be priority #1 all the time.

I know the real answer to the question "what's more stressful: A) childbirth or B) preparing for parental leave?" but when you are in the thick of Answer B, it really doesn't seem like it...

Go Bills. That's the tweet.

Can Buffalo catch a fucking break?

Just here to report I still have no clue what I’m doing

Happiest first days of life. I am so lucky to be a mom to this munchkin Giovanni Michael.

Somehow in the last 11 days since becoming parents, Ross Orlando and I have moved from being “watch Tiktoks before bed together” people to “send each other Reels at 3am and watch them alone” people. #parenthood

Anyone have tips on how to handle being gaslit by your dog?

4 weeks of mom-ing: being a mom is just always being awake when everyone else in your house is sleeping...

College Town Showdown Round 2 Ithaca, NY (Ithaca Bomber Football Cornell Football) vs Lawrence, KS (Kansas Football) Which is the better college town? Voting is open on Instagram & Twitter

Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! The chocolate chip cookie was invented by chefs Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides in 1938 in Whitman, Massachusetts. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts designated the chocolate chip cookie as the Official State Cookie in 1997.

The Lion King is scary. There, I said it. Happy New Year!

I scrolled allllll the way back to 2018-me to quote-tweet my “first day of school” tweet…former me must not have ever thought this day would come. Yesterday I passed my dissertation defense and became Dr. Alyssa Orlando! 🥳 Six years in the making. What a whirlwind.

15th first day of college today, the last three at Clark University. Still feels like 2010 in a lot of ways. Welcome, new students, and welcome back, returners! ❤️ (and thanks to Clark Univ. School of Business for the fun decorations today!)

Don't forget to leave milk & cookies out for him tonight.