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September Somethings (opens the original)
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Something to NoticeI just rewatched the movie Tick, Tick… Boom! for the fourth time. It’s becoming a yearly tradition for me and I think it might be my favorite movie of all time. It’s not my BNM (background noise movie), that’s You’ve Got Mail. But it speaks to me, y’all. If you haven’t seen it, we can’t be friends you really should so we can stay friends. This time, I was technically watching with my mom, but she fell asleep 9 minutes in, as 79-year-olds are wont to do, so I was basically watc
End of Summer (opens the original)
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For the past few months I’ve been working on the draft of a novel and decided to just let Substack happen when it happened. But somehow it’s August and it never managed to just magically happen on its own. Weird.Ah well. I’m back now. something to noticeOur family went to Taiwan in April and we took a two hour pottery class. Which prompted me to sign up for a class here in Seattle. Which prompted me to apply for an independent study at a studio near our house. Last week was a wrap on the summer-
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