Just remembered I don't have to wear my chocolate frosting encrusted shirt all day because I have my library tshirt stashed in my office

I think I just got voted worst cat mom; I just brought a running vacuum into the bedroom where someone was hanging out.

Thought I brought the lentils with dijon Balsamic, but apparently I still had a lentil soup in the freezer, which is fine, except I forgot to pack my silverware, and my best plastic backup option in my office is a spork.

If your brain doesn't make the chemicals it needs, there is nothing shameful or dependent on getting those chemicals from a doctor. Saying elsewise is saying that glasses, shoes, and clothing are all shameful, as our bodies are not naturally equipped to walk on broken glass without injury.

It's release day for A LONG AND SPEAKING SILENCE, #7 in the Singing Hills Cycle of standalone novellas! Watch Cleric Chih fall flat on their face as they navigate being young, broke and alone in a new town! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I have heard so many well-meaning people say about their own pain "I just don't want to put so many extra chemicals in my body" as if this is some situation where suffering will do less harm in the long term. It won't!!! If you can't make your own brain chemicals, store bought are fine!!!!

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I guess until we figure out how to make my website be alive again I will be posting comics over here www.jephjacques.com/comics and on my patreon www.patreon.com/jephjacques

Just a reminder that this is the month to START GETTING READY!!! We will be opening the donation form in June! If you need ideas for what sorts of things we're looking for, we have a very basic list up on our site now! www.romancingthevote.com Please feel free to ask any questions!

Dreamt I took the cats to work without cat carriers, which was (somehow) fine, until I had to get them back in the car to go home.

So, just realized I've done the decrease rows wrong on my hat. Not sure I actually care, it's just changed the shape is all.

Saw a squirrel and their half-grown kid crossing the street this evening - adult squirrel would run a few feet and wait for the kid to catch up before continuing, before they got all the way across.

On the one hand, it would be neat if I could communicate with my gut microbiome to ask why they're upset. On the other, they're bacteria, and they probably don't know either.

lol I'm gonna put a positive energy trap on the necromancer's parts storage room to keep his ghoul servants from snacking on them

Ugh, brain, stop coming up with bespoke monsters for Saturday D&D, you don't have time for this

Pretty much everything Sir Terry Pratchett ever wrote is on sale for tray cheapo today. www.kobo.com/us/en/deals

Film you’ve watched more than 6 times with a gif Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli

Last night I dreamt that a) someone I follow on here worked at my library (but somehow not one of the library people I follow) and b) I had so much excess energy in the dream I could not sit still, which would be really useful today, when we need to finish cleaning out the garage.

Just saw a HUGE groundhog in the back yard, so maybe I'm putting the chicken wire around the garden this year, lol

Nothing like working with seed beads to show you just how much your close vision has degraded, lol. >.<

Nearest book, page 42, 2nd sentence: [Page is entirely a picture of a bristlecone pine] (In Botanical Time by Christopher Woods)

Now realizing I think I've only heard the Hamster Dance remix of Cotton-Eyed Joe, until now

That’s why I left you, Dr. Mensah, my favorite human.

lol I think my local McDonald's is out of most of the breakfast meats this morning, there's very limited options in the app right now. No sausage, no bacon, no steak.

Seeking nominations for the 2026 Excellence in Scholarship Award. Eligible work (papers, presentations, student work, or sharable media) must be from 2025. One creator must be a SUNYLA member. Nominations (incl. self) due May 11. Award includes certificate + cash prize. More info: bit.ly/4cqaAMf

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

Asked the cat to stop eating random stuff off the floor and now he's just scowling at me.

Re: last repost, I think getting back on Tumblr has been one of the best things about getting off Twitter for me. My feed is both chill and informative there.

So hey, here's something unexpected. The absolute biggest referrer to the "Runaway to the Stars" Kickstarter, outside Kickstarter's internal mechanisms? Tumblr.

Did not expect the 2026 vibes playlist to throw me back into the frenemies-to-lovers story I hadn't worked on in like 20 years, but here we are, discovering I've only typed like 2/3 of the handwritten pages.

Realizing I can make little demogorgon heads with the star pattern in this pattern I'm making >.>

I have been meaning to make something with this fox charm for about 3 years

Sitting in the car, waiting to see if the rain is going to relent so I can go inside, lol

Husband picked these up in the Easter candy sales; they remind me of a WoW seasonal dagger from the trading post.

Debating how much I'm willing to pay per pound for my daily coffee, bleh.

Well, I've pulled out the size 10 crochet thread again. We'll see how my eyes handle stitches this small.

Also HAPPY FRIDAY I would really like for people to pre-order my magical spy weird city novel! It's not coming out in the UK because the one (1) offer we got for UK rights was like "Ugh ugh bleh THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST barely sold, why would we WANT UK rights" But! If pre-orders?? Maybe LOVE???

I know they won't actually update the jury duty site till after 5, but I'll probably keep refreshing it until then anyway.

I do appreciate that jury duty here has updated to where I get text and email reminders and can check a website about whether I need to show up.

Napkin math confirms that, at this point in my life, health insurance is the most expensive thing I've ever bought. Cumulatively surpassed my education and the house.

Maybe it's time to finally write that poem about the origins of the moon

I think I've unlocked a new category of dream plot: it's the first day of classes, but instead of being a student, I've been assigned to teach a class I'm not qualified to, and the previous instructor has left no material I can build off of.

Of course my ear is misbehaving (pressure, reduced hearing, tinnitus) on Friday night when I wouldn't be able to go to the ENT until Monday. It will probably be fine tomorrow.

The downside, if it can be called that, of currently learning "Dream a Little Dream of Me" on piano is that I keep earworming myself with it.

Freshly tuned piano!! Today: Dream a Little Dream of Me; Moonlight Serenade; Sortita in B Flat (Handel); But the Lord is Mindful of His Own (Mendelssohn); The Heavens Declare His Glory (Beethoven); Menuet in d minor (from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena).

Got up an hour early for a dr. appointment, dr. is sick, they had to reschedule. >.<

The number of hobbies I have that makes my hands look like I've been fighting with the cats (without actually involving the cats) is non-zero.

Also, adding this for those who have too many ebooks already: if you feel like assisting me by Throwing A Little Something in The Pot, there's always my Ko-Fi. ko-fi.com/dianeduane ...If this sounds good to you, thanking you very kindly in advance! ❤️ (3/2, I guess...)