I need a different pattern every time but always balanced, somehow, even if it's weird.

Are you on a zoom with your snowman?

I can’t spend any more time in those replies, my god, but you are doing god’s work there. Thank you.

We eat a little tear gas for our neighbors.

We show up to protect our neighbors.

Ah geez. Sorry about that freaking lecture. It’s all fine. (I mean it’s terrible!) I get it I get it I get it.

Kids were unsafe & traumatized in a lot of horrible ways then too. The gun sitch is horrendous, inexcusable, unforgivable. But crashing into a silly post to pancakes/waffles something political is not the kindest. And also, yeah, I get it. I feel it. I guess I forgive you because I didn't block you.

You seem fun.

You couldn’t rip the material or stain it or even burn it. Maybe it couldn’t be cut? That would explain the hack tailoring. (My mom actually does sew very well.)

Probably she sold it to a new family when I graduated. My sister had her own indestructible culotte that grew with her.

When I started kindergarten, my mom bought a used uniform from an outgoing eighth grader. She hemmed it and moved the button on the waist, then gradually adjusted the button and hem for nine years as I grew.

G’s emoji is not just a rating but the letter’s actual face.

I will. But I’ll still be, like, sticky from it.