Your Unemployed Daughter

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This morning I thought it was Tuesday until about 10 am, when I looked at myself in the mirror after putting on a cardigan I’d worn on Monday and said to myself, “Wait a minute!” Yep, it’s halfway through the week, on the verge of WINTER HAVOC (downed power lines, heavy snow, high winds—o’ my!), and I for one am rather happy it’s hump day. And aside from a bit too much chicken in my bibimbap, rather happy in general.

I spoke to my mom on the phone yesterday (she’s been moved out of ICU and into a regular room at the hospital), and she sounded very much herself, except for a still-raspy voice due to her breathing tube being in all last week. Which is great, nay, fantastic news. Thanks again to everyone who put good vibes in the air or said a prayer or did whatever things you do to try to make things right in the world.

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Here is the actual playlist from yesterday’s post. Note that our dear author ultimately dubbed it (pun intended) “Mixtape: ‘I Want It That Way,’ ‘Is This It?’ and 18 Other Unclear Songs.” Which I think was wise.

Also wise? This comment, re 14. “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” Snoop Dogg. “There’s a number of things ‘it’ could refer to in this song: I refuse to believe any of them but poop.”

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Boozing (particularly wine drinking) has to be one of the best things in the world that humanity can do for itself. Pour me a delicious Gruner or seven the evening after a stressful day and I will fall into your arms and heave a great sigh of contentment. Assuming you have arms.

That’s why something like this disturbs me to my very core.

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