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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 9h

i wish i could tesseract over to my kid, give them a hug and some cash, and then zwoop back home

Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i don’t know what kind of omen this is but when the universe plays instrumental arrangements of “where or when” twice in 24 hours (college convocation and hospital lobby) it sure af feels ominous

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i heard we like little guys around here

museum collection of ancient egyptian netsuke including a crocodile, hippopotamus, and other recumbent creatures

museum collection of ancient egyptian figures including a handsome 2” green Thoth baboon

museum collection of tiny figures, mostly birds, from iraq 5000 years ago

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THAT philosophy professor is apparently going to lead a post-viewing discussion of In the Mood for Love during orientation week and when my kid asked if that sounded like a good idea i went on such a face journey that i was then forced to share THAT new yorker essay

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i’m pretty sure my terrible mood is due to obvious problems: ADHD meds doses at too-long intervals; child at college for *three evenings already* and i’m bereft; stupid appointments in morning and afternoon. the problem is reason can get me only so far but the rage is boundless

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

no no it’s fine i love rushing my morning to make it to the medical appointment on time and waiting more than 20 minutes so far. if i were this late i’d pay the full visit fee. what does the clinician owe ME for this?

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

hey chicago: is there a good place to eat in hyde park close to campus with outdoor space for dinner? i plan to call virtue to see if i can get an outdoor spot but i gladly accept suggestions for alternatives

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

between the effects of my novavax yesterday and leaving my kid at school today, i’m going to be in bad shape by dinnertime

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

my kid is mostly packed to move out tomorrow and i’m proud of them and i can’t like not having them around (future tense), but the college isn’t prohibitively far away and there are lots of times in the coming months that we know we’ll see each other

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

did u know: when you are the last teenager in your group to embark for college (quarter system!), your ability to be nice to your mother is directly proportional to how many minutes remain before you pack the car? 🌈🌟

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i wonder how much i could get for a Bulls’ “Repeat Threepeat” commemorative t-shirt in not-bad condition

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the trick is to make two so one will look good enough for other people while the wonky one stays home

a pair of braided round challah loaves rest on a cooling rack over a brown granite countertop. the near loaf has some nicely browned bulges and is roughly symmetric; the far loaf was a shaping experiment that resulted in bread for the denizens of the island of dr moreau

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ritalin-taking folks, pls advise on how best to time doses to avoid bad dips during the day but also sleep at night?

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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

since arriving in downtown SF my kid’s major complaint is the concept of $30 burgers at the hotel restaurant; like they’re genuinely offended by this

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

latest movie in the curriculum: Office Space. perfect for child about to visit like six-seven workplaces they don’t want to work at (plus one they’d love)

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

my tiny mewling infant child is somehow traveling by themself tomorrow to sf for college career “week” with grownup clothes and nice lug sole penny loafers and i already miss them though they’re here right note and will return thursday night (moving into the dorm in nine days)

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

eating kugel made in my grandmother’s pan from her recipe that i’ve memorized is deeply and personally therapeutic

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

okay that was definitely the last haircut i’m doing on the kid before college and it went so easily? i wonder which one of those internal-conflict sondheim songs applies somehow

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

telehealth appointment for 9:00 had instructions to log in and wait from 8:45 and i’ve been waiting for this man for 45 minutes already

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

baby thanked me tonight for taking lead on provisioning their many necessary preparations for college life. THANKED. the labor, it isn’t always invisible!

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

i stg my kid saves 50% of their day’s talking allotment for the time between when we sit on their bed for bedtime and when i finally close the door. i love them so much. i hope they can find ways to come home from the college at least as often as they’d like if not almost as much as i’d want

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

doing the super-normal behavior of folding plastic shopping bags compactly for my kid to use to line their dorm trash bin, this is all i’m capable of rn and they (wisely) don’t want me to do more. i have also written out a silly card and hidden it among some already packed items to be found later

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

my child, whose online pseudonym evokes ravens, has been convinced to take our wedding gift wool blanket with formline art of a crow in the middle. we’ve hardly ever used the blanket and it’s so pretty! i’m psyched it’s going to college

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

double batch of cookies (chocolate chips with either salted caramel or peanut butter chips) getting frozen so i’ll have future fresh-baked cookies on demand

two very large, golden brown cookies on a white plate that sits on a beige tablecloth. the cookies are darker at the edges and turned out to be very soft in the middles

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

if it’s Lake America and not Lake Ontario anymore, then the HOMES mnemonic has turned to SHAME

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

absolutely gorgeous zoo day spent with my kid, the best companion for such an outing. we focused on a few exhibits for a long time each; they did a pile of charming gesture drawings with enviable skill. really glad to have had a big-hitter pain pill for today so i could manage the walking and heat

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

my kid, of their own accord, signed up to do community service during their orientation week. i raised a good kid

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

watched The Rock with my kid, who very much enjoys ’90s-era movies that telegraph their plot and yet remain compelling

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

i would swear we had an unopened set of ikea plastic food containers in the basement but my spouse seems committed to moving things around and thus making everything “lost” bc my system’s integrity was disrupted (system = i remember where i originally put the thing)

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

why can workmen in my house never understand that masks are to be worn over all the breath holes?

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

idk about “works”; it’s more like trying to recite blank verse from memory and writing names on individual grains of rice while standing on stilts in the middle of a roller disco hosting two tween birthday parties during an earthquake and also the whole scene restarts when i walk through a doorway

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i’ll do my year in Founder’s Point plot 17, should be nice, lots of new folks every month in the town center and my home keeps getting better all the time; just can’t ever leave that zone

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

having another day where i ask someone for help, they search and send AI-summarized instructions, those instructions don’t work BECAUSE THEY’RE IMAGINARY, and then when i ask for more help they don’t even try the failed method but do something mutually exclusive to the original instructions given

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

my adult child has a college-organized career event in three weeks and needed “business casual” clothing and i am very proud to report my instincts for dressing this particular nonbinary person remain fully perfect at both adhering to required formality and also honoring their gender agnosticism

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

the lighting coming off our new HVAC is a big mood, as the kids say

closed slatted interior door absolutely glowing like a sci fi spaceship with slightly violet blue LED lighting so bright that it illuminates the hallway and a wooden folding chair on the left side

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

teen is mad that i’m requesting they put a congressional art award under “honors” on their brand new resume but there’s at most 435 winners across the country each year, it’s pretty fking hype

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i have zooms scheduled with three different doctors tomorrow

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

my husband is repeating a harmonica riff and while i know he’s practicing for a show i really need for him never to play harmonica again

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

a BLT but crisped prosciutto for the bacon, heirloom tomato, basil instead of lettuce, and garlic aïoli instead of regular mayonnaise

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

whenever i offer a hypothetical, anything starting with “what if…?” my 18yo just lifts an eyebrow, makes penetrating eye contact, and intones “MANY THINGS ARE POSSIBLE”

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

filling the pill calendars, as one does

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

showing my ID at the bagel shop bc i’ve got a discount thanks to my medical conditions

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Effective Nancy @effectivenancy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

it finally happened: my child told their father that he needs to stop breathing so loudly, i am vindicated

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