Before we dive in…
I just want to apologize for disappearing on y’all for a few weeks. Between life events, work chaos, grad school midterms and a research paper that stressed me out so bad that I broke out in hives (🤪), things got pretty intense!!!
I felt really bad about going MIA, but then I realized that these deadlines I’ve created for myself are completely arbitrary. Actually, I realized ALL deadlines are arbitrary and we are all killing ourselves for literally no reason — and then I had a mental breakdown. But seriously, it would be dumb of me to stress myself out even more over the newsletter I created just for fun. Alas, I am back, and my mental health is (sort of) stable again.
Now that that’s out of the way…hi! Welcome to best regards, my *new* newsletter about... everything?
PeR mY lAsT eMaIl, girls who grind (AKA the newsletter that preceded this one) had a good run, but it was time for me to grow as a creator. I didn’t want to confine my topics to #justgirlythings at work. I just want to be able to write about whatever I want.
But here’s the thing: I am having a hard time describing what exactly this new newsletter will consist of. I sort of envision myself putting my fingertips on my keyboard and letting them pound around in a cathartic fashion until I have something that resembles a newsletter for you guys to read each week.
Perhaps it would be easier to make a list of things best regards WON’T be:
Star Trek fanfiction
Mathematical word problems
Sports???
OK, that was harder than I thought. That’s probably because the opportunities here are truly endless. I’m excited about this. Are you guys excited!? No???? Oh, you want me to stop writing???? OK!!!
Soooooo yeah. This is the first edition of the NEW newsletter, best regards. I sort of just wanted to come out and say that. Ta-daaa.
I also am excited to broaden my horizons not only in terms of topics but in terms of general content as well. I would love to have guest writers, Q&A sessions, etc. If you have any ideas, feel free to pitch me!
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in the news
This week in Pittsburgh, perhaps the greatest thing to ever happen to me and to local meme culture occurred: a city bus fell in a sinkhole. Because no one got seriously injured (other than, well, the road), the internet has come together to make fun of the entire situation.
Here’s my personal favorite Sinkhole-geddon meme:
And of course, Twitter was an amazing place to be during this time:
I even joined in on the fun on my own Twitter account:
And just in time for the holiday season, you can now surprise your loved ones with a commemorative ornament:
Thank you, Pittsburgh, for being so amazingly dysfunctional all of the time. ❤️
on the twitter machine
in your headphones
Yeezus found Jesus.
OK, that’s all for now.
Best regards,
Mattie