Allegra Frank

It's been a hot hour.

Hot month.

So long.

So long.

I'm so excited, truly.

I mean, I think it's because like we're writers and we're journalists.

So it's like I'm sussing out the facts.

I'm figuring out the players.

I'm packaging it.

Okay, this one, in the interest of protecting all of my friendships, we're doing a throwback gossip.

This is like where it all starts, Rachel.

you're getting a little origin story gossip here so when i was in eighth grade do you remember zanga were you a zanga girl i was not okay so it was like sort of live journal-esque like you could do little personal blogs but you would follow people and you could comment um so it was a little social like that and i had a zanga and i would use it to blog about my day which was not

particularly exciting.

But because it was not particularly exciting, I would often draw on things that other people were doing.

So I was kind of chronicling what was going on in my grade secretly online, sort of Gossip Girl-esque.

Yeah, it was giving Baby Whistledown.

And

and because i was like very unpopular like no it's not like anybody was really following this i thought and it was just like for a couple of my friends and i would use names because i was like nobody's reading this except my friends and they need to know and i would be like in eighth period spanish class taught by you know miss senora smith

Bob would say this today, like being very explicit and like going down the line of like, here's where I was at this time.

Here's where I was at this time.