I ramble about creativity being hard, still feeling relatively quiet, and loving Greg Mania’s book Born to Be Public: A Memoir. I also talk about heavy topics weighing on me and not having the capacity to really deal with those items still. And somehow, I wind up giving a play-by-play of my early voting experience? I don’t know. I was kind of all over the place this episode. I think I might have just been happy to be up for recording a bit more? I don’t know.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad (or happy or anything in between) life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr

Here's a link to Greg Mania's site: http://www.greg-mania.com - you can find all things Greg Mania there.

Another shorter episode. I swear as soon as I can, I will record longer episodes again! Still worn out from being sick, still trying to recover from the sick-tired feeling that continues, generally still feeling less stamina, less mental capacity, and just…very tired. Trying to do a check in involved: discussing Easter, being sick, feeling unhelpful for people I care about who are dealing with health stuff right now, what I’ve been reading/doing/trying to do this week. Forgot to say this in the episode, but…please send me your sad stuff or happy stuff just whatever you want to hold a space for.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad (or happy or anything in between) life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr

Just a quick episode, still not 100%, want less awful than before. After recording, I realized that I am feeling truly depressed and worn out from recovering from being sick so recording was hard because of that. This is another quick update from recovery. Hopefully, I'll be feeling much better soon.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr

Just a quick episode, still sick, but less sick. Felt horrible not doing an episode two weeks in a row. Talk about The Dropout finale, Community, Easter, and The Batman.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr

I ramble a lot. Mostly about the ways in which depression has affected me, and how I’ve been trying to more actively combat that this week (while also still being pretty depressed), but I talk about Mom and Grandma, missing them, and grappling with the feelings of a life-related transition, and Easter, struggling to make phone calls, especially to certain people, but also how I am struggling to just reach out in general right now. I mention rearranging some space for the life-transition situation, and how I hope having a project will help with the depression. Lots of depression and internal struggle in this one, that is for sure.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr

In this one, I have trouble focusing on what I want to talk about, because I was shaken up by a dream I had right before waking up. I talk a little about D&D, COVID-19 masking changes, and the dream. I also read a listener email. Thank you for writing in.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr

In this one, I talk about feeling quiet, closer to feeling emotionally level despite feeling depressed and generally down. I talk briefly about the things that are probably weighing me down: weather changes, the war in Ukraine, medicine. I talk about writing and the writing group a little, and the kick I got out of Hulu’s miniseries The Dropout. Oh, and I share the poem I wrote a few weeks ago and chickened out of reading a few weeks ago.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr

This one is all about how Mom-Week went, what we did on the day of the anniversary, and how I’m tired of being sad, of feeling weighed down by grief, and getting messages that feel timely. I also mention suicidal thoughts, but just in passing. I talk about self-care and slowing down and trying to figure out how to get back to that.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr

Depression, grief, a listener email, and I chicken out of sharing a poem this week – all spoke about while on a performance high from an exhilarating voice acting session.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr

Special Links for this episode:

https://anchor.fm/dividedbyzerobooks

https://anchor.fm/kyle-newbridge

This one is about feeling horrible and struggling with suicidal thoughts. Stuff doesn’t bring someone back from the dead, no matter how hard you hold on to the items, it won’t bring somebody back. Also, I’m clinging to what Vox Machina represents as much as I cling to Spider-Man.

As always, I swear and talk about a lot of heavy stuff; you've been warned.

If you want to share your sad life-happenings that feel invisible, especially because of the pandemic, you can email me at [email protected].

Feel free to follow the podcast on Twitter: @IDKPandemicPod.

I haven’t made time to participate in the Reedsy Prompts challenges lately, but I’m still including the link to that and my Twitter.

Reedsy Prompts Profile: Here (https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/cassie-poormokhtar/)

Twitter: @cassieprmkhtr (https://twitter.com/cassieprmkhtr)

If you want a link to all my links: drum.io/cassieprmkhtr