Sarah Gokhale

Britney

I’m on Zoom with my manager, Stephen, at 7 A.M. giving my three weeks notice because my coworker sexually harassed our other coworker and our organization took the harasser’s side, but I’m distracted because Sasha keeps FaceTiming me to tell me that Britney Spears just got arrested for a DUI and I’d so much rather dissect that situation than this one, but I can’t bail so I have to act serious and calm while I explain to Stephen that the disgust he feels in our harasser coworker’s presence is very importantly not the same feeling as the actual fear for my bodily safety and autonomy I feel around him and after my second time trying to explain this to Stephen I hang up and call Sasha about Britney and then I gawk at Twitter pictures of Connor Storrie and Francois Arnaud from the GLAAD awards last night in my car without air conditioning while I wait for my burrito to be ready at the taco truck where a likely undocumented dude backs up straight into my car and we don’t know how to solve the problem because he doesn’t have insurance and I don’t know where my insurance card is, and my Spanish is at its worst when I’m on ketamine, which I only did this early in the morning because I just quit my job because my friend got raped, and those things make me feel stressed, and nobody at the taco truck speaks English, but it’s fine because the dude who ran into me gives me a $100 bill and we fist bump and call it even.

Sarah Gokhale is a producer from Orange County, California. Her favorite condiments are Trader Joe’s jalapeno sauce and burrata. Her Mexican street dog’s favorite condiment is cream cheese. Her favorite soccer player is Rose Lavelle. She thinks Electrolit is better than Gatorade. Her favorite American cities are NYC, Albuquerque, and Philly. https://twobrainsonecell.substack.com/.