A writer's life is never boring... Think Walter Mitty falling down the rabbit hole—with a hearty dose of #PoorLifeChoices, which is an unfortunate side effect of being violently allergic to rules. ✦ Hi 👋🏼, I'm Jennie O'Connor. Allow me to entertain you with tales of rats in freezers, ass-less pants and flat-earther boyfriends.
I bought a torture device. Let me explain.
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At the time, I had a coach who did daily cold plunges, but I thought it was a bro-ey elective suffering kinda thing, like the 70 Hard Challenge or pulling a tractor while attached to a body harness. I’m intrigued by health and beauty trends, but not when they involve self-abuse. Fasting makes me homicidal. Facial peels can fck off. Lasering my nether regions got nixed the moment they got to the butth0le, a feeling I later described as being s0d0mized by Zeus’s lightning bolt. But I have chronic pain, so I let my friend’s proclamation propel me down a rabbit hole about why ice baths are the new black... Did I learn that ice baths can help you lose weight? 🤷🏻♀️ Did I read that cold plunging might make me less inclined to forget why I came into this room? 🤷🏻♀️ Did I discover that I am certifiably insane? 🤷🏻♀️ You should probably read the essay and find out... Want more? Check out the archives. |
Narrative goblin, already writing you into a novel
A writer's life is never boring... Think Walter Mitty falling down the rabbit hole—with a hearty dose of #PoorLifeChoices, which is an unfortunate side effect of being violently allergic to rules. ✦ Hi 👋🏼, I'm Jennie O'Connor. Allow me to entertain you with tales of rats in freezers, ass-less pants and flat-earther boyfriends.