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Principal investigator at an undeserving midwestern university. I am ill-tempered and well-endowed. Beware.


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the dream where there's somebody you're attracted to and nobody's afraid to go talk to them but you are and you get increasingly frustrated and you resent their friends for being able to talk to them and you just hate yourself more and more for being a coward

from there you go to use the bathroom and accidentally piss on your clothes and you take them off and accidentally drop them in the toilet and then try to kill yourself with whatever you can find in the medicine cabinet

yes, we all have that dream



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That's frightening. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was my answer. Except that I was the only person I knew who'd heard of it, just as I was the only person who'd heard of Doctor Who, Monty Python, etc. It wasn't really generation-spanning, so much as 'if you're a dweeb during this time period, this is what you're reading.' There were also the Choose Your Own Adventure books (never read any), and golden-era coked-out Stephen King. Also we read the AD&D game books for fun. Some people read Terry Pratchett (I hilariously refused to because I felt he was ripping off Douglas Adams) or those Callahan's books (bleagh, die). Did I mention I took a touch-typing class because I thought it was necessary for using a computer? this has become unexpectedly revealing



Is this a self-reflective metatextual commentary on how the author frequently writes stories about authors with creative difficulty and a fraught marriage going off to write in a remote cabin where they slowly lose their mind... or is it just another story about an author with creative difficulties going off to write in a cabin etc etc