Love on the Brain
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Read between March 31 - April 21, 2025
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the tenth thing we have in common.
Monika
It is meant to be!
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Believe it or not, I’m usually not a deranged asshole who scares her colleagues away from plant-based products.”
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I guess I have no defense at all. I’m just an asshole.”
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(with Dr. Curie under a blooming cherry tree in Nara, Japan),
Monika
Dr. Curie would approve.
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It can’t be easy, to be so welcoming to someone you don’t particularly get along with or like, or to have them stay in your house.”
Monika
Dear god bee, you've mentioned it more than I have fingers!
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“Whatever I want?”
Monika
Guy will surely make an impression.
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“My loneliness is killing me and I, I must confess I still believe—”
Monika
I knew it! A britney spears fan?
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Levi; I refuse to speak highly of Levi),
Monika
You already did!
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Thankfully, neuroscience has a way of defending her own honor.
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Brain stimulation kicks ass, and anyone who says otherwise shall know her wrath.
Monika
As well as from Dr. Curie.
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I wonder if Dr. Curie felt the same when she shared her love for ionizing radiation.
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Levi and I exchange an amused look.
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did not make Levi and me friends.
Monika
But surely it did something.
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dislike each other, rue the day we met,
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“Mind if we join you?”
Monika
Of course not. You are lovely Guy.
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(Sorry you’re stuck eating with me because Guy doesn’t know that we’re archenemies),
Monika
This is getting on my nerves at this point.
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that he’s wholesome, charming, and truly a Cute Guy™.
Monika
Just a cute guy is Guy.
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I’d be a Cute Guy
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Men who give you the tingles, men you can’t stop thinking about, men who pop up in your brain like flashes of light after stimulation of the occipital cortex.
Monika
Men like Levi.
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“And a cemetery,” Levi interjects.
Monika
The teasing is amazing.
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“Maybe we could go to dinner,”
Monika
OH. Is guy interested in her?
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“Are you free tomorrow night?”
Monika
You are a kind and cute guy. But unfortunately not the one she will end up with.
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Kaylee blinks at us from above a very pink drink.
Monika
She seems like a nice lady.
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It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: groups that are constantly told by society that they’re less smart walk into a testing situation anxious as hell and end up underperforming. It’s called Stereotype Threat, and there’s tons of literature on that.
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So far I’ve had homemade trail mix, guac and saltines, rice cakes, popcorn, pita chips and bean dip, and about four kinds of energy balls.
Monika
Is he making bigger portion on purpose so she can eat them aswell.
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I deserve some celebratory face-stuffing.
Monika
Dr. Curie would approve.
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“Let’s bet Schrödinger.”
Monika
Oh Bee, not the cat.
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“I’m not betting my cat.”
Monika
Do not bet on your animals.
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I could make him cook for me every day for a month, but he’s sort of already doing that without realizing.
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Yoda Best Engineer?”
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“What will you do if I win?”
Monika
I guess I'll marry you.
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“I’ll run with you.”
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Must be a tough sight for him.
Monika
For different reasons.
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he’s already staring down from two inches above.
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“Wait a minute.”
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two days in close quarters with the person you most despise in history.”
Monika
It is getting old Bee.
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I’m inexplicably getting Cute Guy™ vibes from him—maybe because when he’s amused he looks damn cute.
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Have I mentioned how much I love women in STEM? Because I loooove women in STEM.
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(except for Fox News, which I left on read).
Monika
What is it with fox news?
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#FairGraduateAdmissions
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“I support that.”
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Thank you for helping out,
Monika
Thank you Levi.
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She is enchanting. Smart, funny, an incredible scientist.
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I need you to know that I’d never do anything to make her uncomfortable.
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stripping her, doing unspeakable things to her.
Monika
Now hold on a minute. Pardon?
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I want to buy her flowers, food, books.
Monika
You have my heart Levi.
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everything I ever wanted and I want to inject her into my veins and also to never see her again. There’s nothing like her and these feelings, they are fucking intolerable. They were half-asleep while she was gone, but now she’s here and my
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body thinks it’s a fucking teenager and I don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to do. There is nothing I can do, so I’ll just . . . not.
Monika
Oh, Levi.
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who’ll never know that someone holds these mountains of want inside.
Monika
If you only knew! This is so PAINFUL.
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This story has no happy ending.