Anna Lindwasser

@annalindwasser.bsky.social

writer | teacher | pigeon | 1988 (she/her) | YA Hi-Lo novel “this trauma is sponsored” coming out Fall 2025 with West 44

Ghost of Christmas Past: You were cool, then you became a dick Ghost of Christmas Present: You’re a dick Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: You will remain a dick You: I won’t be a dick anymore Tiny Tim: Your resolve to cease your dickishness has cured my vague pulmonary/skeletal disease somehow

Frustrated because I asked for an absentee ballot well within the deadline and it still hasn’t shown up. I might not be spending all my time in NYC right now, but I’m still a New Yorker and I want to vote. 😭

dear lady working at the laundromat: maybe just after you changed the washer i was using to the wrong setting because you thought it was yours is not the best time to interrupt me from doing my laundry to ask me for an online review. just a thought.

trying to make my bedroom at my grandma’s place at least semi-presentable before i leave and it would be a whole lot easier to clean if all the dust i’m trying to get rid of wouldn’t make me sneeze so much. 🤧

when i was a kid i wrote a toxic yaoi wip. several rewrites later and it’s about an autistic 13yo who is really angry that his classmate doesn’t have health insurance and therefore can’t treat his severe allergies and asthma. still gay as hell, but i like this version a lot better.

season 4 of osomatsu-san is so chill compared to previous seasons. considering they randomly go to space and fight aliens and get transformed into watermelon zombies that is really saying something about how bonkers past seasons have been.

tonight is my goodbye dinner with the baptist home for old ladies, the group chat name for some of my IRL best friends. we’re in our thirties, none of us are baptist, and ‘ladies’ doesn’t exactly encapsulate everybody’s genders, but the name somehow fits perfectly.

It does not bode well that the counseling service at my new school seems to require that you make phone calls to schedule appointments. This seems like a pretty big barrier to access for people with a lot of the problems they’re meant to help with.

Just spent the evening with one of my best friends - Mari. I am going to miss her so much when I move. I know I’m lucky to have people in my life I’ll be sad to leave behind, but holy wow am I going to be sad.

It’s genuinely so annoying when you ask a question online and people chime in with “Google it.” Clearly I know to do that. I’m asking because I want individual opinions. If you don’t have those, just don’t answer the question. It wasn’t directed at you specifically so you don’t have to say anything.

I got back from a pretty intense vacation one week ago. I had a cold during the second half. I started teaching summer school today. It’s hot as hell. I am 37. It makes sense that I crashed after work. It makes sense that I had to cancel a much-desired hangout with a friend because I was tired.