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This is me telling Thom about a dream I had. It didn't warrant re-typing on Facebook but here, have a screenshot. (Decorated with bananas because I am bananas.) My dreams are wayyy less horrific than they used to be and it has made a huge change in my life. It turns out that if you have day-ruining nightmares as frequently as I used to, there's a magic pill for that. By "magic" I mean that it was developed to treat age-related prostate gland enlargement/urination difficulty, but an unexpected side effect was that patients with PTSD reported significant improvement in the number of nightmares they suffered. I'll put this link in my bio also because come on already, Instagram. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538493/

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This is me telling Thom about a dream I had. It didn't warrant re-typing on Facebook but here, have a screenshot. (Decorated with bananas because I am bananas.) My dreams are wayyy less horrific than they used to be and it has made a huge change in my life. It turns out that if you have day-ruining nightmares as frequently as I used to, there's a magic pill for that. By "magic" I mean that it was developed to treat age-related prostate gland enlargement/urination difficulty, but an unexpected side effect was that patients with PTSD reported significant improvement in the number of nightmares they suffered. I'll put this link in my bio also because come on already, Instagram. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538493/

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Ithaca, I'm all up in you. For two weeks. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (Image stolen from Reddit and mangled in GIMP.) (at Ithaca, New York)

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I am a ghost (at Canandaigua Lake)

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ex-voto (at Rio Tomatlan)

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Carolyn Burnham: Uh, whose shoes are those in that photo? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Lester Burnham: Mine. Fluevogs. The shoes I've always wanted so I saved up and offered someone a shockingly low offer on eBay and now I have them. I rule! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ *Kevin Spacey champion fist gesture* ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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It's time to play Name That Thingy!

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Tripped over a tombstone. Classic Polsky.

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Here is what I made yesterday at my new fabrication shop job that I do on Tuesdays. These first ones are called "pinch studs" or something, but the second ones are called "trim studs," and that is a funny name. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Yesterday I made 1,500 trim studs. So far it is still funny. (at Clarke Spares & Restorations)

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Memorializing the elusive perfect mani-pedi before I destroy it tomorrow at my new machine shop gig.

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Here's a sneak peek at a piece I have in the @mercury_tattoo WWI-themed show "Lest we Forget," opening tomorrow [Saturday, June 9, 2018] at 19 Donaldson Street. (It's also the reason I haven't turned your phone calls and emails and text messages. Don't hate me.) (at Mercury Tattoo)

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On the brighter side 🎨 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [Music = Marshalls Been Snookered by Freelance Hairdresser @bhayes313]

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The visceral terror of being a person with anxiety at a family event thing. My cousin Joe grew up to be rad, though. (He's showing my mom his first tattoo here.) And my dad is obviously great. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I've had to live in my old bedroom at my parents' house for the last two years. They let me come home when I was going through the worst of my ... whatever it is I have. Brain Fever. And I spent the last two years getting better. But by now I know I'll never really be 100 percent functional. And it's clear my presence here is getting to be old news. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I want to get out so much. And there's so much that I'm good at. That's not the problem. I guess maybe the problem is that I never know when this is going to happen again. I know I sound like le Reine de Drama but last time it really almost killed me. So there's this dread that makes me second-guess any plans I need to make for the future. What if? What if. What if.

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The visceral terror of being a person with anxiety at a family event thing. My cousin Joe grew up to be rad, though. (He's showing my mom his first tattoo here.) And my dad is obviously great. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I've had to live in my old bedroom at my parents' house for the last two years. They let me come home when I was going through the worst of my ... whatever it is I have. Brain Fever. And I spent the last two years getting better. But by now I know I'll never really be 100 percent functional. And it's clear my presence here is getting to be old news. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I want to get out so much. And there's so much that I'm good at. That's not the problem. I guess maybe the problem is that I never know when this is going to happen again. I know I sound like le Reine de Drama but last time it really almost killed me. So there's this dread that makes me second-guess any plans I need to make for the future. What if? What if. What if.

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The visceral terror of being a person with anxiety at a family event thing. My cousin Joe grew up to be rad, though. And my dad is obviously great. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I've had to live in my old bedroom at my parents' house for the last two years. They let me come home when I was going through the worst of my ... whatever it is I have. Brain Fever. And I spent the last two years getting better. But by now I know I'll never really be 100 percent functional. And it's clear my presence here is getting to be old news. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I want to get out so much. And there's so much that I'm good at. That's not the problem. I guess maybe the problem is that I never know when this is going to happen again. I know I sound like le Reine de Drama but last time it really almost killed me. So there's this dread that makes me second-guess any plans I need to make for the future. What if? What if. What if.

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We kissed on the subway in the middle of the night / I held your hand / You held mine / It was the best night of my life ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #theymightbegiants #cubband (at Solebury, Pennsylvania)