A lightning round of ASK ME ANYTHING
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It’s time to answer some questions from the last round of ASK ME ANYTHING! We’re talking initiating separation and divorce, the boundaries between author and reader, tattoos and the enemy of summer, stickers, and AI all in one LIGHTNING ROUND. Whew.
MK asks: “Have you gotten any more tattoos since the ones you [wrote about] earlier this year? (which I loved.)”
The newsletter MK is referring to is this one, which is now the second most popular post of all time on HONEY STAY SUPER:
The short answer is I have not. The longer answer is that my last tattoos were done in Chicago at the end of April and I had always intended on taking a tattoo break for the summer. While tattoo aftercare varies, the core of it is not soaking in water (lakes, hot tubs, pools) for the first couple of weeks. You know how long summer lasts in Vermont? A couple of weeks.
A tattoo is an open wound (yum) so not only do you want to avoid anything that could risk infection, you also don’t want to risk ruining or fading your brand new tattoo. That includes avoiding direct sunlight on healing skin. You get my point. A short summer and fresh tattoos are not friends. They’re not even frenemies.
My intention was to start up my tattoo tour again in the fall but, if you’re a regular reader of this bitch rag, you know life started slapping me around in the spring and it hasn’t stopped since. I didn’t have the money nor time to even think about travel or tattoos until recently. But! Because I desperately need to believe 2024 will be better (please be better, please be better), I’ve booked a trip to Chicago in February to get four (!) tattoos. Updates to come as events warrant, etc. and so on.
V asks: “who requested to separate and who commenced the divorce proceedings? are there any parts of you that want to be with your ex? [also]: how are you meeting all these dudes?”
There is a nuts-and-bolts quality to who-did-what-when questions that I understand and empathize with. Often it’s simple curiosity and wanting to map those answers on to one’s own life to see how well they fit. Well if she’s the one who asked for a divorce then maybe I can ask for one, too. But I have already written in great detail about my separation in BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY. Two years on from the publication of that book and three to four years total after actually writing it, it’s a subject I see through a completely different lens now, knowing what I know and experiencing what I’ve experienced over the past year and a half.
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