Julie Alexander
Phill’s #widow. Funemployed academic deserter and ex-writer. Plant lady and voidmom. Collector of TJ Maxx reusable shopping bags. Chili crisp enthusiast. Once and future yinzer. The Necronomicon is tattooed on me somewhere.
- Six months in to this widow experience, I do still find myself saying "my life is over." But hey, look at the way things are going around the world. Pretty soon everyone's life will be over! *finger guns*
- Not even half an hour in and Eurovision is already being extremely Eurovision.
- Let this man cook
- It's been just about six months. I'm doing better, but I still can't fucking believe my husband is dead. What the actual fuck. Fuck.
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- ICE is the American Stasi and if you understood that reference I’m sorry about all of our retirement accounts.
- Reposted by Julie AlexanderA Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
- My grandmother was a #widow for almost 30 years. I imagine that I will feel this despair for 30 more years and it terrifies me.
- #Grief Report: Today is an expansion day after a weekend of contraction. I am thinking about the world and its strange wonders again. Today I thought about what it might be like to live in a very long, skinny country. bigthink.com/strange-maps...
- Let 2025 be the year I fully and honestly embrace the healing power of house music
- Reposted by Julie AlexanderYes. I love this. There has to be economic power in these protests, and collectively we must begin to come to terms with using it and come to an agreement of what that will look like.
- Reposted by Julie AlexanderThe Golden Age of Corruption www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
- I feel like a Roomba stuck in a corner. I keep turning myself a little bit, moving forward a little bit, but just hitting the wall. Over and over again, never getting out of a place that’s clearly escapable, every time running into the permanence of death.
- The pain of #grief is like going through hell, but what’s unexpected is that hell also goes through you.
- We're entering a time where companies are no longer going to make anything for consumers who fall below a certain income bracket. It just won't be worth their time to produce goods for non-millionaires, so they'll just focus on the rich and what they can get from them. Because number MUST go up.
- If I look for a new job before I move, I'll just add to all the anxiety, and I likely wouldn't find a job anyway since we're all bracing for the impact of the #TrumpTariffs and other fuckery. In the off chance I got a job, I'm sure I'd be let go in the coming wave of #TrumpLayoffs.
- This dog had better not come to any freaking harm or I swear to god
- Reposted by Julie AlexanderMay Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.
- Reposted by Julie AlexanderThe proposal that your unhappiness can be cured by blaming a minority and treating them cruelly is made afresh to each new generation. It has never worked but that never seems to stop people falling for it.
- Reposted by Julie AlexanderDear god let this man cook.
- So “Niamos” is the Chandrillan equivalent of “Sandstorm,” right? Also, Genevieve O'Reilly was so real for this scene #andor youtube.com/watch?v=y6wL...
- How Demonology Won the 2024 Election thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-demonolo... #Politics #Religion via @mitpress.bsky.social
- If being alone's a crime, I'm serving forever Being strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side At the swingin' party down the line
- Will it be a day where I just do one chore after another while blasting house music, or will it be a day I spend sitting in his chair staring into the middle distance? The pain feels like it has no end but also no beginning; time becomes space. The reverse of life. Nonexistence. A black hole. #grief
- I have discovered that the scientific name of one of my plants is Ctenanthe oppenheimiana, and I think I have found my drag name.
- Hot #plantlady take: African violets are tacky.
- My experience so far of being a middle-aged #widow… I know that I’ve got many more years than possibilities ahead of me.
- I don’t want to die alone.
- Reposted by Julie AlexanderHappy that FSG Kids will be releasing this new Annihilation children's edition later this year.
- Getting my hometown tattooed on my body today in hopes that it will save me when I return.
- Worst birthday ever 🎂🎈🎁
- Never thought I'd see the day when I felt so horrible and lonely that I'd turn to *grading* as a distraction. Life as a #widow.
- Wow, it’s almost like “monetize everything and profit at all costs” isn’t the solution to every problem known to humanity
- I'm glad that I have a group of friends that will join me in singing "Everybody to the Limit" at a moment's notice. #gratitude
- Reposted by Julie AlexanderSorry, we broke money. It doesn’t work anymore. The green rectangles, the metal circles, they’re all busted. Doesn’t do anything at the store. We’re gonna try to get bartering started up again after we figure out how many tomatoes a house is worth
- My millennial friend had to explain the "not to act like a plant" expression to me and now I feel silly in multiple ways.
- “What in the Benjamin Button bullshit is this”
- Cried the entirety of my commute home.
- My falling shape will draw a line Between the blue of sea and sky I'm not a bird, I'm not a plane
- I really clocked Lexi Love as a fellow Aries, but I see she's actually a Scorpio. She must have some Aries placements. #RPDR
- However I feel tomorrow, I am going to get up and act like I feel perfectly fine because I have too much to do to spend another day laid up by this damn cold.
- Comfort YouTube: Listening to this cute and earnest millennial woman get incredibly excited about a discovering a new muskmelon variety for her sustainable garden.
- So obsessed with this TikTok show that I have put it on the projector and watched it with my students before class www.tiktok.com/@shopcatssho...
- I'm starting to pull away from wrestling. It's just too sad for me to watch the big PPVs right now; I don't know if I'm going to watch Wrestlemania. I hope I can find my love for it again once I'm further along on this journey of #grief.
- Things are so garbage in this country that I am seriously considering dropping $25 on 12 measly cans of Polar Seltzer Toasted Coconut.
- Got curious about the free trial of britbox. Four days later I am INVESTED in #Shetland.
- Reposted by Julie AlexanderTrump has no public events on his schedule today, after giving the longest SOTU speech in American history. He is quite simply tired and took the day off. How many of his fellow Americans have that luxury? He’s been on the job six weeks and spent half of it in Palm Beach. Loser.
- YEP
- Watching the fall of democracy in real time is especially horrifying now that my husband is dead.
- When my mom died, being creative with makeup helped me to get my feet back under me again. I hope I can find something to help make this #widow #grief easier to carry.
- “I fell in love with the transformative #ritual of kneading, mixing, and stirring. Most of all, I fell in love with how I was transforming, how each dish made my #grief easier to carry": buff.ly/4jmd13P via @businessinsider.com #cooking #PersonalGrowth #HealingJourney
- GO GREEN GO WHITE
