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I had various thoughts this week (a rare occurrence). Pictured are tweets I - meaning Ella - found funny and other random things. Warning: some of those random things will not be given context. The loose theme is friendships, graduation, and work culture. One thing I’d like to point out off the bat :“you could get some serious strange” is one of my new favorite phrases. I’ve also been enjoying describing people as “high rollers” and “ponzi schemes,” but that is irrelevant.

Anywho, THE MEAT: Maintaining long-distance friendships has become a goal of my post-grad life. As such, there are a few things I would like to applaud publicly. I’d first like to give the app Cappuccino some attention - this is an app I rediscover about once a year, make all my friends download, and then forget about. You record a response to a prompt (a ‘bean’), and in the morning, the app compiles you and your groups’ beans and makes a podcast for you to listen to. I find this and group Facetimes have taken up a large space in my life recently, and I must say, I find this technology exhilarating.

In other news, it's been a month since I’ve moved down south and branded myself as a Nashvillain 🦹‍♀️. If you’re wondering how it's going, I’d say it's going subtly great. I’ve presented myself to my local bagel shop as a cheese enthusiast, and the man who works on Sundays seems to appreciate this. He gives me samples of cream cheeses, and my favorite so far has been spicy jalapeño. I also love my job and my coworkers, one of whom introduced me to the California Raisins (pictured ⬆️). These are animated, musical raisins who sing (my favorite song of theirs: I Heard it Through the Grapevine). That was a thrill! I also made the important self-discovery that I am allergic to whiskey while trying to assimilate into the South.