Honestly I think Kumail Nanjiani might be the contestant I've found funniest in at least 3 seasons. He's making me laugh so much. #taskmaster

If my stomach could just chill out that would be really nice

Unfortunately I might just sleep

Jesus: omg im lost in the desert wearing nothing but this flimsy robe I sure hope no-one tries to seduce me in the next, idk, forty days or so

working on my felt-tip copying skills. I feel like I'm getting pretty good at drawing pokemon.

Brilliant thread

#hw watched me play Pharoah for 5min and then told me we were going to build a pyramid in his room. We draped a sheet with a father christmas pattern over a chair and he looked at it and said, "Mummy, the vibes are wrong."

In our last D&D game, the DM game up with the concept of Heated Chivalry and I cannot stop rotating it in my head.

I did some yoga this morning and I feel better. Outrageous.

THey're having a debate in our local bougie school district about whether they should ban screens in school before 2nd grade, and J told #hw about this and he was OUTRAGED. "We need screens so we can have Danny Go! We all love Danny Go! And Numberblocks!"

I have been looking forward to it getting warmer and lighter and the flowers coming out, and now I've remembered that I always get hayfever for the first 3 weeks of spring and that I start waking up at 5am. Ughhhhh

Seems fair

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNa8... a monday treat! the fish slapping into the pool sequence is quite! something!

#taskmasterS21E01 I love Kumail Nanjiani but he's very rectangular, isn't he.

I dreamed last night that someone recced one of my Taskmaster fics in the small print on the back of the Guardian weekly media supplement.

Semester's really caught up with me today. I suppose it's not that surprising that I'm exhausted and in a foul mood but I really am.

Oh no I've listened to Noah Kahan's "Dial Drunk" eight times in the last 24 hours

Yesterday I'd like to announce that I left my office at 4 on the dot, ran to my car, drove the speed limit to pick up HW from afterschool, drove him home, let in bbsitter, made him a sandwich and dumped some fruit in a bowl, drove legally back to work and made it to introduce the speaker at 5pm.

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

Ok but hear me out: transmasc Shane Hollander

I have scheduled myself SUPER tightly today in a way that is almost going to guarantee that I'm late for a thing, and I'm feeling very stressed about it. Also my foot hurts and I know I have to go see a medical professional about it but that's not going to happen until May.

Interview with the Vampire:

There's an old man here at the ice cream shop telling his companion about Ea-Nasir and I'm BITING MY TONGUE to keep from jumping into the conversation 😂

It's SNOWING. Absolute effing disgrace.

Had a sudden urge to listen to the Weepies again yesterday, and they're still so lovely and mellow. I listened to them so much in the 00's. I love Say I Am You.

Taking HW grocery shopping has suddenly levelled up now that he's tall enough to push a grocery cart without immediately crashing. It gets too heavy for him about 1/3 of the way around the store and then he just side-alongs, but he's WAY more engaged and helpful.

Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents! Vessel with rodents!

Already clear that as soon as I don't have a whole ton of urgent stuff to do, my executive function is simply going to cease

I'm playing Unpacking. What a satisfying little game, with so many details telling a poignant, sweet story about someone's life.

After my month where I've barely been here, we're finally ticking off a bunch of admin things like renewing HW's passport, doing our taxes, etc and it's such a relief.

I had an erotic dream about Zac Oyama.

He is without question the coolest person I know. I’m so absurdly lucky that I won the awesome kid lottery

Happy World Autism Day. Being the parent of an autistic kid rocks in ways you can’t imagine unless you live it. My son woke me up this morning and explained the order of Hollywood studio acquisitions between Columbia, Tristar, and Sony Pictures — while eating ube ice cream. It was 5am.

Sometimes when I'm teaching I can see student's faces change and I know I've shown them something they'll never unsee and changed the way they think forever, even if it's small, and it's just the best fucking feeling in the world.

the only april fool's I'll accept 😂😂

Sheryl Crow's "Soak up the Sun" still slaps if you're curious

I just finished teaching my class and I'm sitting at the desk in the empty classroom and I'm so tired that if nobody else comes in I might just live here. Somebody tell me to get up and go home?

My apple orchard in bloom... and rusty old train tracks above it! This is my first time doing tracks on an aerial embroidery and I'm pretty happy with the effect; the flowering trees were a chore but I'm happy with them too! The last element to add is the allotment to the left 🥕🥬🌱 #landscape

Funeral was lovely. Really graceful and heartfelt, and my dad did really well. I paddled rapidly under the surface with my little duck feet to get his useless siblings a) to the cemetery, b) to the house, c) away from the house, as they planned to rely on ubers in rural Cornwall

I am. So. Tired. Oh well, off to the airport we go.

Ok guys I've finished Heated Rivalry and I loooooooooved it. Give me fic recs please!

I was introducing an event the other day, something I have done many times but I have never been on a stage with stage lights on, and I was so thrown by unexpectedly not being able to see the audience that I forgot the name of the event and foolishly had not written it down

Today I drove behind a car with a vanity plate that said MOOMIN

I'm staying with some friends and their very small and officious and delightful 3yo helped me put the linens on the guest bed.

SOMEONE SOMEHOW TURNED ON MOTION SENSITIVITY FOR THE LIGHTS IN MY OFFICE AND THEY KEEP GOING OFF AND IT'S DRIVING ME UP THE FUCKING WALL

Lego made a container ship model and it's not the ever given?????

"There are hard times in life and this is going to be one of them," says HW as he prepares to do a spinning leap onto a cushion while wearing a weighted blanket as a cloak.

YES, slam dunk a 4k academic essay draft in one day, still got it.

A good moment to dig out this piece on Len Deighton as possibly the first person to write a novel using a word processor (albeit with an assistant to actually operate it, 1968 still being the era of the unsung literary typist) slate.com/culture/2013...

I wonder how many more times I will have to listen to my dad cry on the phone. It is heart-wrenching. Funeral next week. #death