Before or after your stole my best friend? But the real question is if you were using me to get to Martha all along, or if you just took an opportuni… - Curtis Sittenfeld

Hardly ever did it matter if you brushed your hair before driving to the grocery store, rarely did you work in an office where you cared what more than two or three people thought of you. At Ault, caring about everything was draining, but it was also exhilarating.

As for the politics here, what can you do? There’s a lot of posturing, but it’s all kind of meaningless.

I have always found those times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will - that is the part that's almost unbearable.