Chelsea Time

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For the past month or so, I've been doing what looks very much from the outside to be nothing. "Are you looking for a job, or are you happy where you…
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I started reading Anna Karenina out of sheer pique. After my reading marathon in March, I spent a month earnestly beginning the books on my shelf and…
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The beginning of the new year—and a new decade, no less—is a good time to shed one's baggage, which is why I ended up hauling a 63 pound suitcase to…
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At the end of every year since 2015, sometime around Christmas, I type up something I fondly call an "annual plan." Do not mistake this for the actions…
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Over shepherd's pie at the Rose & Crown, the ersatz English pub at Epcot, it is impressed on me that every single body of water in Florida might contain…
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Since the school year ended, I've been asked more than once what I'm up to this summer. What I don't say: that I’ve spent most of my summer thus far…
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If you'll recall, I sent my last email the day before my first day of classes. After that day, I promptly ghosted everyone I cared about, because I…
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For some reason, I am on the board of a nonprofit organization. Every year this nonprofit organization gives out prizes to books that were released the…
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Sometime around last Sunday, all of the personal ambitions I had obsessively been figuring out how to achieve started to seem self-indulgent and…
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It is a time-honored year-end tradition of mine, like listening to this Kathleen Battle Christmas CD or checking the Neopets advent calendar, to have my…
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Now that the entire world is on lockdown, I've begun to realize that my normal state is a state of quarantine. That's mostly how I spent February…
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I have had the same song stuck in my head for the past month. No, it's not Weird Al's Hamilton polka (though that one did take up residence in my…
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