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I have two types of dreams: boring, bordering-on-reality dreams, and nightmares. My most recent nightmares have been about the actor Alexander Skarsgård. Whether he’s in Succession or Big Little Lies or Infinity Pool, he is terrifying. The characters he plays scare me and his acting personas infiltrate my dreams and mess with my sleep. In…

After a conversation with my roommate, I know I’m not just being paranoid for thinking this: people are getting really bold in staring at other people on the street. I mean fully checking them out—looking people up and down, breaking their necks from turning their heads around, etc. What ever happened to the rule that…

My most recent addiction is the game Mini Mini Farm. There are no stakes—nothing praying on my downfall—all I do is run around my farms and plant crops and gather the produce. I can’t stop. By the time I finish collecting all the fruits and veggies, the ones I planted first are ready and I…

For those of you who have 20/20 vision, you won’t understand my grievances. I’ve had glasses since the 2nd grade. Now, 14 years later if I’m not already legally blind, I’m certainly edging blindness. There is no winning with impaired vision; if I’m not sleeping in my contacts, I’m breaking or losing my glasses. The…

Can I even talk about the news or just news in general without it getting controversial? I don’t consume any real news which is questionable behavior already, but don’t worry, I won’t make this a regurgitation of Instagram infographics circa 2019. Despite getting bombarded with emails from the New York Times and the New Yorker…

Reading Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation I resonated with the narrator; having a year of sleep would really rejuvenate me. On the other hand, I wouldn’t need any medications to sleep for upwards of 20 hours a day. I am a huge proponent of naps. They don’t always sit well with me—and…

Google is the only search engine I use, but it stays just that, a search engine. I don’t write on Google Docs, I don’t prefer Gmail, and I don’t have a “G-cal.” Occasionally the Google suite is forced on me for school. My university email is a gmail, and some assignments MUST be submitted in…

Sitting in a coffee shop, reading an article by Zadie Smith, I expect her to walk in. Since I have no idea what she looks like, I will google her in advance to prepare for this insane hypothetical. This behavior is normal for me, as someone who is constantly daydreaming and romanticizing. It really keeps…

EDIT: After showing ChatGPT my writing, I asked it to write a blog post about itself in my style. This was the result. Let me tell you about ChatGPT, the AI that thinks it’s hot stuff. It goes on and on about how much it knows, and how it can answer any question you throw…

At 21 I’m already out of touch. Commercials for the Meta Quest headset and ads for the Metaverse with Kiki Palmer have me wearing a tinfoil hat to keep Mark Zuckerberg from accessing my brain waves. At the same time, I am an iPad bitch, and prefer playing temple run on the big screen. Still,…