one long sentence about being Okay.
Some days I am not totally sure that I am doing it
But today is not one of those days. Today I am doing it.
Today I watered my fern and made breakfast and coffee and the neighbor’s cat came to my door to be let in and read Montaigne with me and I’m going to finish all my reading before class for the second time this week, and I’m planning a lesson for next week that is about persuasive arguments and then a lesson about genre where I’ll teach them to write resumes and cover letters (because your writing class should give you actual usable skills, damn it!) and last night I couldn’t sleep until 4 because migraines and anxiety BUT ACTUALLY EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY.
GOING.
TO BE.
OKAY.
the most surprising thing about having really short hair (like 14 months ago my hair was shoulder-length, and now it is under a centimetre in the vast majority of places on my head) is that you can actually still get dandruff even if you have no hair - and it’s actually worse because there is no hair really to hide it

