Today, a cardiac nurse at the hospital I work at commented on how I always have a smile on my face and I’m nice to everyone and she asked, “What’s your secret?”. I panicked and told her, “I only shave my legs on Thursdays”. Why am I like this? I need answers.

To all my friends blowing stuff up today, please be careful. I like you guys with all your heads, shoulders, knees, and toes.

I think the only thing more annoying than videos of fireworks on the 4th are 27,000 pictures of girls decked out in red, white, and blue with a caption that just says “‘MERICA”.

I just need everyone to know that I am not okay after season 3 episode 8 of Stranger Things. I AM NOT OKAY.

I got Flaming Hot Cheeto dust in my eye tonight. I’m gonna wake up with superpowers. I just know it. This is my origin story.

All I’m saying is that my sister and I owned a VHS tape of CATS on broadway as children and it was surely the scariest part of my childhood so the CATS (2019) trailer ain’t that bad ya’ll.

I think it’s cool that in 2019 I can get a car air freshener in the same scent as my fabric softener because otherwise my life would be total chaos.

Me: “I’ve had so much caffeine today my face is numb.” Aunt: “What are you drinking now?” Me: “Sweet tea. But I’m sure I’ll be fine. Tea caffeine is different than coffee caffeine.” Aunt: “Your eye and lip just twitched simultaneously.” Me: “Like I said, I’ll be fine.”

Anyone ever knock on someone’s window in a parking lot because they have the exact same car as your friend and with the sun shining in your eyes you’re absolutely convinced that it’s them sitting in it? Yeah me neither. Never done that.

“You know the kind of tired when your whole face is tired....and your brain...and your mouth?” Olivia Loghry I know the kind. Been feelin’ it since sophomore year.

Really feeling old tonight because I’ve spent the first half hour of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve saying, “Who’s that guy?”. And now I’ve watched the ball drop on the east coast and I might go to bed before midnight.

The Chiefs won the World Series today. What a time to be alive.

Embolisms.

Conversations will not be cancelled. Relationships will not be cancelled. Love will not be cancelled. Songs will not be cancelled. Reading will not be cancelled. Self-care will not be cancelled. Hope will not be cancelled. May we lean into the good stuff that remains.

To my OCC family: I heard the panic in the dorm when the memo from president Proctor came out earlier. Remember to take deep breaths; the truths about God we learned last semester in chapel are still irrevocably true.

I want to encourage you that by honoring the CDC’s guidelines, staying home, washing your hands—this is all a deeply pro-life thing to do.