Sarah🦇

Pinned post hello: I’m Sarah, an American living in Germany with her husband and two cats. Literature is my passion and I like to discuss books, writing, nature and veganism, and doomed shipwrecks. Garfield dot com was the first website I visited and it’s been all downhill since.

Uhhh yeah I read philosophy.

My favorite small talk topic is grocery store allegiances, especially a) German discounters (Aldi vs. Netto vs. Penny) and b) regional American chains (Shop-Rite forever, babes).

Read. Scholarship that is a pure joy to read, pleasurable and evocative. Without much of a classics groundwork, I did just have to “take her word for it” but God, how beautifully she weaves those words and arguments. Loved her exploration of the role of literacy w/r/t desire.

(Almost) no one uses a mouse pad anymore but I still remember my family’s first gateway computer mouse pad, and YES WE HAD THE COW.

Everyone applaud for Ivy who came out to stare at the heating maintenance guy today, even if all he saw was two shining eyes.

It’s for you, it’s lit

I had a dream about being a rocket ship that was so realistic I had vertigo and motion sickness when I awoke. Dreams shouldn’t be allowed to do that, doesn’t my brain know I can’t even go on a Ferris wheel?

I’ve never worn those socks with the separate toes because I think I’d love it but they feel like the first step towards Foot Stuff.

I don’t want a lot for Christmas:

I have so little blood that when I eat, all my blood moves to my stomach to digest, including from my head and eyeballs. After food, my vision gets blurry, I can’t see and my eyes hurt. ANYWAY I think vampires should suffer more, I have suffering ideas for bloodless vampires.

My iron supplements have stained my tongue black. It’s very giraffe of me. Giving chow chow dog.

If you knew how many times I’ve made a 70s wood grain and avocado green kitchen in the sims…I need her, I want her, I need the hideous fridge!

What if we kissed on the squidward bench

I hate discussing my health because self-pity is a waste of time but I want to improve more by end of year. It’s hard. I built a straw house, set it on fire, and now I’m screaming that it’s hot. My illness has destroyed my health, my quality of life, I want this evil GONE bro!

Read. Accessible, direct, he has a clear line throughout the book with a punchy message and while I wanted to go deeper, it is supposed to be short and entertaining. I was touched by the descriptions of chronic illness and he humanizes so well, I don’t mind his schmaltz!

You gotta wonder about the Christmas my little pony with the Santa cutie mark. How does she feel having an entirely different species forever on her body? Is that ever a little weird?

I am off work sick this week (my pain has been HORRENDOUS) but I’m realizing that I’ve had the same GP for so long and seen her SO often that she feels like an honorary cousin. She’s a guest star on a sitcom - the audience cheers when she walks in. She’s in promo commercials.