Author: Sylvia Braun
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THOUGHTS ON CLOTHING
Preliminary results of buying various things from places to try to get higher-quality, comfier stuff to live in (there will be discussion of pretty expensive clothing in here so pls be aware if that would be upsetting to read!) I am 5’9″, 250lbs, and my basic measurements are roughly: UNDERPANTS DEPARTMENT: DRESSES DEPARTMENT (looking for…
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Of the child groomer targeting elderly men in Norton
WELL HELLO, here we are with another “a fucked up thing happened on the internet” post. There’s a lot of back-and-forth town drama between folks who don’t like each other very much behind how I ended up finding out about this, but frankly that is not the point of this post (though I would like…
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The Anagrams
Or, that time someone thought faking your death on the internet was a good idea in 2022. Happy Friday the 13th! Let’s jump right into the absolutely wild events of the last six days… Chapter One: The Death On May 8th, at 10:01 AM, a friend of mine shares a post on Facebook. Just a…
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We got chickens
Well, so did everyone, right? It’s a pandemic and we’re all stuck at home. Everybody with room got chickens. We both grew up with them and had wanted them for years, but never had enough room. However, last summer when it became evident that we’d be able to move due to both of our companies…
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a different kind of mentally ill.
[the usual content notes for anything like this: mental illness, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation] I think I sort of thought anxiety wasn’t as bad as depression. Not for other people, but for me personally. I always(?) had social anxiety. I worried about going out, because of my guts, because of what people might think of…
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Maleficent
Maleficent is important to me. She always has been. She’s the one character I will buy almost any merchandise for in the parks- I don’t buy pins, except for Maleficent (okay and that one Haunted Mansion one because it was just too cool [SIDEBAR: LEOTA IS PLAYED BY ELEANOR AUDLEY WHO VOICES MALEFICENT AS WELL]…
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I planned a wedding.
It’s weird to think about. We booked two years out because our venue fills up quickly on Saturdays in the fall, so I had two years to plan, and yet somehow the last two months up to the wedding were excruciatingly stressful. I saw almost no one outside of work and my husband-to-be. I checked…
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On working for free.
There’s something dangerous in how we’ve started to view work as something that should be done for free. It started to become more visible in the “take an unpaid internship as your first job!” idea that was so prevalent when I finished college in 2009, and has continued in the way we tell folks to…
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On ticking boxes.
On Valentine’s Day 2017, I got my car stuck in the small plow bank at the end of my driveway. The snow had frozen, and I couldn’t shovel it. I figured I could just drive over it, but underestimated its height, and the front end of my car would not budge no matter what I did.…
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On Working While Female*
While I knew I wouldn’t be able to post this until I left my last job, I felt it needed documenting, so here it is. This post was written in early 2017 and the nonsense herein continued on and off for the next 10 months until I left the job. Here at Current Company, we…
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