Tina Friml Instagram – After the past week, I haven’t been able to get much sleep— Until what was supposed to be last night.
I found myself in Seattle, waiting out Boston’s snowstorm so I can fly home, still operating on east coast time and yet still managed to go to bed far past an hour I should have (Sinners is great, by the way.) I reveled in the opportunity to sleep in. Self-care has always been more of an interest rather than a passion for me.
This week, in between late club sets and early flights, ground-shifting moments in my and my friends and family’s lives, growingly sick incidents across the country and world, and an evening of food poisoning from my favorite ramen shop thrown in the midst of all of it, I was exhausted in more ways than ten.
So early this morning, as I sat up on my knees in bed and looked down at the way my hotel’s blackout curtains had failed me— Incredibly precisely— I strung together a very colorful sentence of certain words I’m saving only for my HBO special.
But this is so typical of life, to an obnoxious extent. Each time I’ve given into the exhaustion, and lay in my own self-inflated pool to drown, the sun always finds me, given time, and blinds me into motion again. I’m comparing life to lightness and darkness! Are you picking that up? Unheard of!
But this is sort of more my point: One thing I’ve been learning against my will— The light is so massively, hilariously bigger, it will knock you over every time, even when you don’t want it to.
The light does not know how to read a room.
The light double-texts.
The light autoplays Mumford & Sons after reaching the end of a Deftones playlist.
It reminds me of something I’ve told myself for years, which is that grey skies are hiding a beautiful day behind them, not ever the other way around.
I hope you feel a molecule of unsolicited light today. I hope it pisses the shit out of you too, cause it means you gotta get up.
I’ve put on my story to a guide to how you can call your representatives to help make a difference to defund ICE and to assist our brothers and sisters in Minneapolis and across the country now.
Also, congratulations Seahawks, and my condolences in advance. | Posted on 27/Jan/2026 04:07:45
