Hey guys, we are back on Normally, the show with Normalish takes for when the news gets weird.

I am Mary Catherine Ham.

And I'm Carol Markowitz.

Hi, Mary Catherine.

How was you weekend?

It was good.

We had a lovely Easter.

No one fought too much over any particular color of egg.

And I got all of my children to look at the camera ish one time.

Wow. That is a wild success, actually. I mean, the ish is doing some work in that sentence,

but it's a picture of all four of them. We visited the west coast of Florida, the Gulf of America. It was a birthday weekend trip for me,

and it was very, very nice. I had not seen a lot of the West Coast before. It was really beautiful.

But the best part of my trip was that I largely disconnected from the internet. I still used Instagram a little bit. I use it to

like get recommendations and things and Instagram is just a happy place for me. But getting back on X

today has been like returning to a mental asylum. It's like, oh, God, I remember this. This is the way the crazy

people live. I did the same thing because, you know, it's Easter weekend. I'm with my family.

My kids are on spring break and I like to actually hang out with them. And if you're on the

social media too much, you will tempt yourself

into just like getting distracted and floating away or getting really stressed out. And so I did not

do that. So I have also been sort of picking up whatever threads are here when I got that.

Reacclimated. You know, a lot of the time I thinking, like, maybe I'll just stay off for a little bit.

But obviously our jobs and our general world exists on these platforms and mostly X for me.

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