Maureen Callahan

And I thank you because I also struggle.

I struggle mightily with a new word in the lexicon, which is screenshot.

Now, there is the noun screenshot, as in that is a screenshot of.

something and then there is screenshotted which is i screenshotted something which i find very clunky i think you know shot is a past tense word and i feel like why can't screenshot like i screenshot that but i kind of also get it because one of my um bet noirs is you know and and i'm sorry if you're among the people who do it it's a very common thing um people i love do it all the time

who say I text instead of I texted.

It's I texted, it's past.

Text is the noun or the verb, but texted is the past.

Like once you write the text and send it, you texted somebody.

You know, I could go on all day.

Okay, anyway.

um this is from troublemaker heather and this is the short film and she writes don't interrupt me and she's got like a pink teddy bear wearing i believe a harrods mini hoodie coming into the frame as she's got ask not on audiobook uh up on her screen and i just died i died like the effort taken to send this stuff into the nerve we never take it for granted

Love you.

Love you, Troublemaker Heather.

Okay.

This is from Troublemaker Robin.

She said she liked Ask Not a lot because she found it not to be a rehash of things already in the universe like so many Kennedy books are.

It's just a rehash of a rehash of a rehash.

It's

barely reheated slop um now oh exotic this troublemaker was reading it while on a transatlantic cruise i would sit on deck reading and reading and reveling in the book it was windy and my husband oh i love this portmanteau meaning ex-husband husband suggested i take the cover off so it wouldn't flap and be annoying and i shouted no

I want people to see what I am reading.