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I am so tired. I don’t even know what my deal is right now. My brain feels like mush. I feel like when I had really early morning classes in college, I would want to die on the bus from being tired and having a hangover.
Except I don’t have a hangover because I actually haven’t drunk much of any kind of alcohol since 2004. But weirdly enough, I feel hungover. Maybe I am getting sick.
I found myself googling “do tastebuds grow back?” at 3 am last night because I have one of those sore ones on the tip of my tongue, and I remember watching a video where the woman took tweezers and ripped it out.
Anyway, that was why I Googled, and no, I didn’t rip it out. I went to sleep and hoped for the best.
On a positive note, I found my favourite bra that I wear at home. I know most women walk in the door and take off their bras, but I am more comfortable with some kind of restraint to keep them in place.
Anyway, my at-home one isn’t a sports bra because I always find them suffocating. It is just a regular, no underwire, but with support.
I thought I lost it, and I have been wearing my really stretched-out bralette in the meantime, but today I found it again in a really stupid spot that I swear I looked in, at least three other times.
My oldest daughter swears by this one, because she is small band/bigger cup and most often they gap at the sides. She calls underwire the devil and finds this one is very smooth and supportive, or so she says.
I bought them during a big sale last year. A good fitting bra is a game-changer.
How are we feeling about the John Galliano Zara collection? It is beautiful, like I knew it would be, but man, some of those pieces are so expensive.
Who do they think the average Zara shopper is? She usually isn’t an $800 coat kind of person. But alas, much of it sold out quickly, so I guess I may be mistaken about who the Zara shopper actually is.
In case you missed it, I put together a wardrobe: The Bad Influence: A Fall Capsule for the Woman Who Stopped Giving “Good” Advice.
Weekly Reads and Some Videos:
OrySnack: The Bar Where Bartenders Work From Home. Small robot servers in this Japanese bar are controlled by people who can only work from home because of disability or illness.
Did you hear they discovered the first new cat species in over a century?
Sense and Sensibility – Official Trailer 2 (2026) Daisy Edgar-Jones, Esmé Creed-Miles. It looks good. I haven’t read that book in a loooong time, so maybe I will do a reread before watching.
The Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism: The Stephen Collins cartoon
Hilarious Animal Shenanigans Captured in Photos and Videos Shortlisted for the 2026 Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards. I am pretty sure Angry Bird is my favourite.
How to explain something complicated
The Old Navy x Altuzarra collaboration is actually good. I included a couple of pieces in the roundup.
Matronage over patronage: the Prado and Rijksmuseum team up to research women rulers’ impact on art.
Cornell Didn’t Just Fail One Woman. It Failed Everyone Watching.
Audible has a creepy new feature that lets you talk to characters in books.
Greta Garbo Would Hate the AI Version of Her Being Used to Sell Ball Bearings. This is so fucking weird and wrong.
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Wait, when you think of ball bearings, Greta Garbo isn’t the first person to come to mind?