*snack time is a free email newsletter packed with illustrations that will make you feel less alone in your messy body/mind/soul–and hopefully also make you laugh.
Hi everyone!
Greetings from a very special feeling: resigning from my day job of over seven years. I’m curious how my brain will respond, which is partly why I started this newsletter, but I mainly want to play, stretch out and write more without the pressure of MAKE SOMETHING GOOD. So this is gonna be loose and fun!
There will be talk of bodies, food, emotional revelations, and daily minutia’s that I find fascinating to talk about/consider like, for example, waves of snack obsessions and how those tend to strike at a time when finding said snack is for some reason impossible and becomes a fully frenzied game that I’m apparently obsessed with. I just rediscovered white cheddar pop corners and last night I needed them. I went to five different stores and of course the one place that did carry pop corners had them on the highest shelf that I couldn’t reach and didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to ask for help reaching. I considered ordering some online but that felt too easy. I will attempt again soon and keep you posted.
But in the meantime, here’s a comic about getting toilet bowl cleaner in my eye:
I did leave my house in a panic, sopping wet, to go to CityMD because I was convinced I would no longer see out of that eye. The line was too long so I figured I would actually be OK in the end. Instead, I bought some saline solution (and by some I mean an incredibly large bottle because that’s the only size it comes in):
I have no use for it if anyone wants to take this off my hands! I’ll be wearing goggles every time I clean my home and I have 20/20 vision 👁 ✨
A few years ago I was taking a chem lab. We hadn't started anything yet so I didn't have my goggles on, but there was a TA at the end of the bench running through the reaction for the next week. She lost grip on a tube as she pulled it out of the centrifuge and flung it towards me. Luckily I do NOT have 20/20 vision 👁️✨ so it got on my glasses instead of in my eye when the tube shattered and the contents splashed on my face. Later when I was filling out the incident report they asked me how my skin felt and I was like um? Tight and dry? Like I just spent ten minutes washing my face? Couldn't tell if it felt funny from the hydrochloric acid or from trying to get the hydrochloric acid off my face 🙃 luckily I still have skin on my face so I think we're good lol