The table obviously had commitment issues (via @marinaschair)
This is a great day for the Internet: twitter.com/marinaschair
The feed is obviously a joke but the chair’s bio is great:
Just me and Marina until the end of it all. NOTE: That picture features our table. The table has since left.
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Lets hope the catheter extracting her urine doesn’t short circuit the tweets