I have that as well but I seem to have left the house in a sundress. Damn.

Applying to multiple schools with one application is an advance.

But acceptance rates have to go down if students are applying to 16 schools.

I'm interested in what this has done to wait lists. A "wait list" used to be a polite no. Now I'm guessing wait listed students have a much better chance.

How many schools did you apply to?

I think I applied about six colleges.

I looked it up and the current recommendation is 8-12, which would be insane in my day.

If kids send out double the applications, the acceptance rates have to go down.

(Not saying the rates aren't scary and sad for kids.)

YouTube has trained me to stop meaningfully searching.

Infinite scroll instead of pages and weird inserts of everything I ever clicked on mean that I will never find what I want even if I enter the full title.

If it isn’t served to me by the algorithm I will never find it.

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Yeah. I did it again.

I dreaded a task for three weeks.

Then I asked two questions.

And with the answers to those questions, I went ahead and got it done over a few hours with minimal problems.

What?

Happy The Internet Is Unusable Day

See you tomorrow.

And then you are unpacking and screaming at yourself for paying to have a pair of gym shorts with no string moved across the country.

Happy New Year!

To everyone who celebrates the sanest thing to come out of medieval Europe, a new year that starts at the beginning of Spring instead of kind of the beginning of Winter.

It’s called Lady Day.

Which means we can celebrate with Billie Holiday songs. Easy Living for everyone.

I guess when clothes got less expensive, the trade off was they weren't worth pawning.

I read a book (The Typewriter and the Guillotine, by Mark Braude) that said that a blizzard in 1930s Paris was so bad that pawn shops were required to return pawned coats to their original owners.

"Yeah, we know you bought it, but poor people need coats to live so . . . give them back."

They finally don't, though. I felt like that person whose favorite celebrity finally said one too many boneheaded things in interviews.

I made up for it. I figured if I'm going to pay through the nose, I'd rather do it in style, and ordered everything I wanted from See's Candies.

Cadbury mini eggs finally shrunkflationed me out.

I used to persistently crave certain pastries.

One day, well into adulthood, I got as many as I could and ate them until I didn't want them anymore.

Woke up the next day, ate the rest until I didn't want them.

Haven't really craved them since.

I wonder how many problems we could solve like this.

And also the sequels.

Oh no. There's another Dune.

My strategy, from grade school on, has been, "Green or no green, if you pinch me I hit you."

A holiday falls on a Wednesday.

It's most convenient and useful for the government to celebrate it on the weekend before or the weekend after.

Which weekend should they choose?

I'm an "after" lady. I like the ramp up to a holiday and I hate the actual day feeling like an afterthought.

Now that AI in not eligible for copyright, I look forward to the thousands of hours of entertainment that companies will gift to everyone out of sheer love of technologically-fueled creativity.

Finally saw Wuthering Heights in the theater.

It’s fantastic, and I mean that in both senses of the word.

It’s silly, ridiculous, staged, and much more of our time than its own. It is entirely Emerald Fennels interpretation of the work. All of those are compliments.

Amazingly good.

Ah. Sadly this disqualifies me. Mine are all weird trees and pictures of me that I've forgotten to delete. ;)

Help a luddite out. Where am I saving these photos? Is this an instagram thing?

I would love it if they issued, like, regency era fans. You could flutter coded messages to each other.

I've watched and read the essays and I like that they're interested in all the themes of the book.

But we need to stop acting like it's juvenile or wrong to feel what Bronte clearly intended us to feel: magnetically drawn by the passion and connection of the two main characters.

It's a love story.

One hundred and fifty years of readers didn't make a mistake. They know the emotional crux of the story.

There's a reason why films can cut out the second generation of Wuthering Heights but no one can cut out the first, even though the book frames everything OG Cathy does as a flashback.

"Wuthering Heights isn't a love story!"

Yes it is. Come on.

"It's more complicated!"

Yes. A love story doesn't have to be simple, stupid, or saccharine.

Emily Bronte didn't just happen to make the catalyst for generations of horror a passionate, taboo, soul deep connection between two people.

Yes. One of the first guys to get antibiotics died because of a scratch from a rose thorn. They didn’t have enough to continue treatment so he literally died from a gardening injury.

You can say you weren’t shocked by a man digging up his dead lover while forcing her daughter to marry her cousin as part of a psychosexual revenge/land grab.
But I’m just going to conclude that you weren’t paying attention.

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It annoys me that people are like, “People were shocked and appalled by Wuthering Heights when it came out. Weren’t they so provincial in the 1800s? Ha!”

Girl, have you read the book? Have you seen the YouTube video essays? People are exactly the same about it.

I shouldn’t have high standards in made for tv celebrity media, but framing the story of Carolyn Bessette’s marriage to the man who would accidentally kill both her and her sister as a love story is a little much.