🍹 Catch-Up

Hello, and welcome back to Kessentials.

Watching Prison Break recently took me back to 2011, when I rewatched it for the 2nd time while I was home sick with amoebic dysentery. I was one of those ultra-focused kids in primary school, so being absent from school even in the face of this debilitating illness was mostly my parents’ idea.

If I had it my way, I’d have missed out on:

  1. falling back in love with the gorgeous, brilliant Michael Scofield (and getting heartbroken that Wentworth is actually gay, like I stood a chance),

  2. learning about Utah, the first United state to sear itself into my mind, and

  3. wondering if monsters like T-Bag really existed irl, but somehow not clocking that he was also the trailblazer of many a White supremacy group during his several stints in prisons. (BTW, it’s generally accepted that we should capitalize “Black” when referring to race, but should our Caucasian counterparts enjoy the same petty privilege? Discuss.)

Hello, and welcome back to Kessentials. We’ve kind of given up on being your “regularly scheduled programming” here, but every once in a while, I’ll take a break from my increasingly busy life to attend to this mostly independent child of mine. I like to tell myself that these spaces between posts are the natural, measured order of things, unlike a Prison Break that went on for three seasons too long. But if I’m being honest, I just often don’t have much to share publicly nowadays. (Please don’t check my X.)

Since we last spoke, I’ve experienced several monumental life changes:

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