Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: June 2023

  • Increasingly Increasing

    Since Monday’s post, in which I detailed my suffering under the invisible leash that Satan has tethered to my pelvis, things have become worse. One day my new twice-a-day habit failed to satisfy, and I bumped it up to thrice, and even so, I woke up from a bonus sex dream afterward. (It involved a…

  • Now Available at Work

    I have some rules for work. One rule, Don’t be Friends Above Your Pay Grade, has recently been amended to Don’t Flirt Above Your Pay Grade, because I can’t go about cutting off any more friends. Another rule is Don’t Alk-Tay About the Og-Blay at Ork-Way. (Which, translated from the PigLatin Don’t Talk About the…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/8

    This week the golden clouds went from this: … to this: Loose with the colors anyway.

  • Alexa Has a Tone

    Recently, the Alexa device has taken to reminding me that Gary buys Product X quite frequently (protein drinks, sugar substitute, trail mix), and that soon he might want to buy even more Product X, lest he run out. It is tiresome. I would turn it off if I knew how. Instead, I go through the…

  • HR Burka

    At some point in the last 20 years, HR departments codified their sexual harassment rules and banned “unsolicited compliments” from the opposite sex. Thus, if I I look nice, the women on my teams can all agree that I look nice, and the men stay silent, as if they cannot see past the impenetrable HR…

  • Increase

    I am documenting here a change in the symptoms I have suffered as of late, so that later when I am diagnosed with a brain tumor I can point back to this post as the early signs of deterioration. My appetites have now spread from my upper abdomen to my lower, specifically the region from…

  • TWIL: Mental Illness

    Gary and I both read a horrifying article that suggested schizophrenia is an autoimmune disorder. I recommend it.

  • Lonely, Which is New for Me

    In the last three plus years of the pandemic, I’ve only been a bit lonely. And suddenly, in the last two weeks I’ve been lonelier than I have ever been in my life. It started when I saw Friend Anne for the opera and realized how much I missed seeing her in person. And then,…

  • Bear Summer

    Now that Raccoon Baby Season is upon us, the next wildlife event is the Visitation of the Bears. It’s so exciting. I don’t remember ANY bear visits while I was growing up. But now, every summer rhere’s a report of some bear wondering around a St. Louis suburb. Usually the nicer suburbs. I suppose because…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 6/1

    Loose! Not even caring about dimensions and proportion! Loose damnit. Golden sky with clouds. Here’s the approximate loose goal: Here’s the start: