I Tried Botox. It Didn't Work. That's Not the Point.


I Tried Botox. It Didn't Work. That's Not the Point. It’s July 2020. I’m on my twelfth video call of the day. Maybe thirteenth. I stopped counting around June. The pandemic turned my home office into a place where I stared at my own face for more than ten hours a day. I had never spent this much time looking at myself. Nobody had. Before, you saw yourself in the bathroom mirror or checked your hair in the elevator, then moved on. Now my face stayed in the corner of my laptop screen from eight...