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September For Some Reason!

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Mary H.K. Choi
Sep 03, 2025
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Hullo, welcome to choitotheworld. I’m Mary H.K. Choi, a New York Times Bestselling Author, Essayist, screenwriter and AuDHD person living in New York (for some reason). I also identify as a person with a history of disordered eating. Join me each week (neurospiciness permitting) for a wee chat about brains and creativity. And lurk at my other hijinks here or else here.

to be suspended in this moment forever…

Oh, September.

I feel so morose! I can’t help it. It’s so sunny and beautiful but I am full of lament and torment and all the ments.*

What I mean by that is that I’m depressed that it’s September but it’s admittedly fake depression because it’s more that I want to be wearing sweaters already and staring out at middle distance from a train.

Which is also to say that I mostly have a preemptive cry trapped in my body somewhere about the next episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty.

God, I am ready. I am SO ready.

UGH. What does anyone DO with this time of year?

And what is one supposed to do with this weird half-week with its Monday lopped off? It’s so disorienting. Like jet lag to the power of daylight savings. So misleading!

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