Helpful information for navigating this blog:

1. It’s pronounced “hip-AH-lit-uh,” not “hippo-lite.” And no, it’s not my real name. Though I may inflict it on a kid someday.

2. I am a female, under-30 (barely), expensively educated, upwardly mobile (I hope), liberal Clinton voter. Yeah, you heard that last part right.

3. I live in San Francisco, but someday I will burrow out from under my blanket of fog and return to the warm summer nights of my youth.