Packed for big travel early tomorrow

🎁!!

Compulsively drawing cold birds is a normal and acceptable reaction to impending travel anxiety #birdart

Work in progress of some chilly birbs from a photo my brother took. Building up layers then taking them away xx

RAN to the post office and then schlepped a load of stuff home and I am too cute and charming for manual labour ffs so sweaty rip in peace me BUT LOOK AT TRAIN PLUSHIE OH MY GOD it's a third of me!! It's to be the whole size of the four year old!!

30 mins orchid mantis 🐛🐛🌸

#FrogFriday 🐸: J. Martin Pollock “I AM AT THE ZOO BRING ME A FLY.” 1923 Lithograph in colours, backed on linen, 40 x 25 in. (102 x 64 cm) London Underground / London Zoo www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...

Sometimes the teens I work with ask what adulthood is like, and I don't have the heart to tell them you wake up in a cold sweat Sunday morning realising you didn't go to the post office yesterday and it's closed today and it's only open while you're at work in the week and aaaaaaaaa

man they really got everything in that takeover

my mum was like "just get him another toy double decker bus" and I was like this is not the eccentric cousin energy I bring to the function, sorry not sorry; and so the four year-old obsessed with transit will be blessed with TUBE PLUSHIE

Whenever I'm up late writing 40+ full reports, my intrusive thoughts immediately go to my masters thesis supervisor ghosting me for weeks only to reappear and comment "wahts [sic] this" on an argument I'd read three books to justify

30 min chickadee tonight to take the edge off #birdart

no idea

This weekend I was stranded in central for a bit because I live on a main tube line and a bunch of stations were closed for overcrowding, so I had to get through the swarming masses, which rattled me. Elbowed at least one in the appendix. Were the lights worth it for them??

[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim

Tonight in "THE ABSOLUTE CHEEK OF IT": a parent tries to double their meeting booking to get twice as much time, I cancel one because don't be rude, and then they don't even show up to the one assigned slot THE ABSOLUTE CHEEK OF IT

I just want to eat berries in the woods (the berries are videogames and the woods is my house)

This weekend's silly little sidequest

Overpaid for this because I got it into my head that I'd be the only person in a several hundred km radius that would be interested in it and it made me sad to think of it languishing on the shelf So this is my child now

is my watch chastising me for not being awake enough when I sleep

The Modest Mouse Float On Float is always my favorite. It’s so neat how they get that cop car to drive off after the collision. I’m glad they don’t have Adrien Brody play the fake Jamaican anymore.

said to some girls in my form that I'll have vertigo for a week or two so it might be fun to observe how I'm leaning at jaunty angles to unobtrusively balance myself while teaching. They offered to make bingo cards. Fml

Work has this thing you must call in sick at 7:45am and confess your ailment crimes and so I agonised over it till the fateful hour where I rang up, stated my suffering to senior management, and she said a cheery "thank you!" and hung up on me. I laughed so hard I nearly puked

I've been keeping track of the games I finished this year with little drawings of the player character, but was stumped by what to do when the main character is "You". So, is me. Loved both of these, especially Roottrees which I swallowed in like 3 days like a 90s Nancy Drew mfer

Passed a closed construction site on the way home that smelled overwhelmingly of citrus

BREAKING: The White House has issued a statement: “Hey look at me, I’m a talking house.”

oops 🫠

Actual footage of an hour on the bus this morning being sat on and crushed into the window by an enormous sentient coat

I was crawling under a desk in a dress fixing a computer (because this is my lot in life; two degrees one masters etc etc) and I FOUND MY TOQUE it goes in wash and then is returned to me so happy yay

If nobody got me, I know Inspirational Washroom Sign got me

🛼 #kith #kidsinthehall #davefoley #doomsday #doomsdaydj

Every ad now

A kid found this while we were researching game advertising and said very matter-of-factly "is that raiden and kano beating up children?" and I had to say equally matter-of-factly "hmm, looks it"

I mean...

Let's have a Louis Wain moment with ballpoint pens and a dumb screenshot from my camera roll

It's really not hard to call people by the name they introduce themselves with. I've purposefully rerouted people at work who called me "Liz". I'm Elizabeth; my name is in my email. Liz works in a different department; her name is in her email. Basic decency.

so mad I will never be as funny as a teenager with a slide presentation

Personally, I think it’s okay to feel good about good news. Feeling good is not a denial that serious challenges remain. “Why are all these fools enjoying a sunny day? How can they allow the sun to kiss their ignorant cheeks? Do they not know the horrors of RAIN???”

Agreed to supervise a field trip last minute in which 63 theatre kids were very very normal about discovering phantom for the first time.

Cool stuff when the app doesn’t work so you have to contact the organisation directly and you get a sarky email back that's like "well FINE but in the FUTURE please use the APP" like I had no desire to speak to you and now this is further confirmed, fix your app omg

BIG DRUMS BIG DRUMS

Today was spent on my little trainee essay feedback side-hustle and this is the happiest I've felt in months. MONTHS. I just want to help people with their writing and I am pretty good at it. My proper job is killing me and this is a really pleasant contrast.

Study of a still from the film Doppelgangers³ that had a neat colour palette

#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched took a random punt on The Mastermind because I haven't been to my local arthouse cinema and felt like seeing something, and I LOVED it. It's very lowkey and kind of sad and really funny in places

"ok I need to leave the house and do something tomorrow I'm losing it" but then I see the date tomorrow and no that'll not help things actually, better stay inside and binge bad horror films till morale improves

Getting sick this year has decimated my social life and that has been a tough pill to swallow (along with all the other pills I now need to swallow), but I'm determined that I won't allow these experiences to make me unkind. still a bit grumpy though. >:[

Guillermo del Toro speaks for so many of us. (Can this please become a meme? Thank you very much. And fuck AI.)

Couple little games I finished while I had the flu last week. The time's changed so we're plunged into darkness at 5pm again, so hopefully more time for art. Or more power wash simulator 2

Crows at the park were very chilly 🥶 #BirdArt