Status Updates From Chiaroscuro

“We were bonded in our mutual hatred of our bodies”

Women suffer a lot

“clowning is about interrogating the human condition”

Me defending my tipsy self to my friends

Consider this sentence(!) before wanting to read this book:

«So I take my basket and my bell and hold them in my lap on the F, the L, and the posthumous fart that is the B60 bus, asleep before I fall into bed and then rise to my landlord-cum-yogi sucking an appetite-suppressant lollipop in my doorway, asking me to pay up or get out, and also namaste, before I take a cold shower and…» (max characters exceeded)

I am so unsettled by this book, I can’t wait for it be over so I can return to a world of relative normalcy. Whatever that really means.

It’s so odd

Also after this book, I am reading the most orthodox book, just to reset my brain, like wtf is this

“Maybe my life isn’t as serious as yours. But I’m a person.”

Me when my colleagues ask me what I did on the weekend

Let me catch you up on the misadventures of our mc, she’s at the 14 year wedding anniversary of the man she’s sleeping with and his quite lovely wife and she’s wearing a dress the wife gave her. Carrie Bradshaw you’ve been outdone