omg babe are you a creddie girlie too

there was definitely a time where i was a diehard creddie girlie

but i was also a seddie girlie for a bit, too because hate to love? mwah.

August 19, 2023

I audiobook'd Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and while I prob wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they were truly interested in murder mysteries bc it was a little dry and slow to me in the middle, the ending was wildddd. In my opinion, the ending was worth the dryness. A well-crafted story, truly.

While some of the effect may be lost, I think listening to audiobooks of classic literature is a major hack and well worth anything that might be missed when not read in the traditional fashion. As much as I enjoy traditional reading, I'm super pro-audiobook (and actually get a little peeved when people say it's a lesser form of reading). A good voice can add so much meaning and theatrics and color and texture to the words in a way that I sometimes can't in my own head. I've found this especially useful for drier, meandering classic lit that's well-recognized to be excellent. I think Tolkein's Lord of the Rings has to be something I read via audio sometime this coming year.

I've been binging Scholastic Babe's PhD vlogs at Brown and Providence, RI seems so lovely. Her vlogs are just so comforting ahhhh. They're not particularly useful for me, I guess, since she's in the humanities, but I feel like she's just genuine and relatable.

Lastly, I went into Old Navy several weeks ago for practically no reason at all, and I discovered this beautifully soft cardigan which cost way more than I wanted to spend on a sweater, so I didn't get it. I have experienced an entire saga over this sweater which I do not care to recount (because it is ridiculous tbh). I will say that I was quite literally planning to buy it outright at full price a few days ago, but they didn't have the color I wanted in store, so I was even going to suck it up and have it shipped. Then, in a final moment of near defeat, I go online to find to my surprise that everything is 40% off. Including the sweater which has literally been excluded from every sale for the past several weeks (trust me, I know, because I checked nearly every day like an obsessed psycho). Patience truly is a virtue.

Today I am thankful that my officemate is really cool and nice :D I was curious about some aspects of what it was like to move up there and we had a conversation over Zoom and I'm glad that we're getting along so early.

Hi Soph! I saw your tag on that cute gif set you made of Justin and Jeniffer dancing and since i guess we all started listening to the podcast this week, thanks to your friend. I was wondering, what are your thoughts on it? Or what has been you favorite episode/discussion? It’s so fun to listen to but also very weird because I am so so so not used of Randy being so outgoing and his humor is my new favorite thing.

Hey anon!

Honestly the tiny qaf fandom going crazy over Randolph Clarke Harrison in the year of our lord 2023 was not on my bingo card yet here we are 😂

I'm enjoying it and to echo what's been said previously it is a bit of an "omg where has this personality been hiding all this time?" kind of reaction but I'm living for it. Randy is so deliciously funny, bitchy and gay. It's great to see him able to be himself and unapologetic about his opinions (which looking back at the qaf space he was in and maybe not being able to do so back then) I bet is so refreshing.

The way he and Jordan drag each other then just burst into a fit of laughter is so me when I'm talking with my friends, then in the next breath talk about their intense childhood trauma, relatable.

Randy and the stupid quiz is always a highlight asdfjkl. I've listened to so many episodes now they've all sort of blended into one, but the poly pocket episode is a highlight. To hear their thoughts on society's obsession with monogamy and their fear of non traditional relationships. How every tv show or film always has to focus on getting the boy/girl at the end and how that is drilled into us from such a young age being so boring. Even the topics I'm not well versed on or interested in is easy to listen to as it's literally just two best friends chatting.

His experiences coming out at school and at home, talking about how he's an introvert and not really comfortable being the centre of attention, hence why he and Gale got on so well as they are very similar in that respect. (Now I can't stop imagining them having really deep, creative conversations between takes about life and the arts and then going into some dramatic romantic britin scene and rolling their eyes lmao)

Randy seems to be in a very happy place in his life personally which is lovely and yeah, I'm probably gonna be in withdrawal once I finish the episodes!