It’s Galaxy Quest, but I feel like I deserve retroactive eternal credit for dragging my guy friends to see Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World the week it came out in 2003.

House was a mess. Invited two friends over, cleaned things up*, cooked curried chickpeas, and enjoyed the company of two dear friends. Winning?

Love when some shithead at work asks why it took me a week to respond to a question (and passive aggressively copies our superiors). Especially when all I can really say is: ‘Look, sorry, but I took a week off for Christmas?’ 😣

I also have three (like @tiffmorris.bsky.social): VENCO - Cherie Dimaline THE LOST ONES - Sheena Kamal BAD CREE - Jessica Johns

So it’s awful that it took until 2026 for this to happen, but I will take the good news about my home state.

Just started this one and have already run into a new word: “penetralium” or innermost part of a building.

Mom has a new knitting project now that her sweater is finished.

Never mind the jobs you had—tell me five courses you took in college. Vector Calculus Microelectronic Circuits Analog/Digital Communications Immunology Nabokov (in English)

NO (NEGATIVE)

Just a reminder that every time David Brooks is trending, you should donate to a person with lived experience of poverty (ie, not him).

Cool that Obama is directing people to @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social

Good morning friends. Groceries delivered, coffee made, a biscotti enjoyed. I think I’m ready for the snow? More worried about the ice storm my parents are expecting with all the trees around their house.

Establish it!!

It’s Frog Friday! 💚🐸 Repost with your favorite frog meme or photo!

Gross. Would rather not deal with this tomorrow morning.

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

This is the Bigfoot read I didn't know I needed from @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

This weeks reads include: -revisiting/actually finishing the amateur submarine murder book for next week’s @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social -being a pedant & reading the book before I watch the new Netflix series -double escapism, with either an Ancient Rome or 1700s amatory fiction flavor

A frankly astounding Humble Bundle of about 70 books by women SFF writers, including the Iskryne series by @pennyvixen.bsky.social and me and my first two Karen Memory novels, for $25 for the whole bundle, benefitting youth mental health. www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce...

a crème brûlée would fix me

it was always gonna take all of us

For 2026 as well: Care for yourself and the people around you. Believe the world can be better than it is now. Never give up.

It’s approaching 10pm & I am awake for…reasons. Sounds like a good time to start the puzzle the generous @spherewolf.bsky.social gifted me for the holiday.

What a fucking miserable Saturday to not have any college football

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

Excitement?

Books I’m starting 2026 with include Fantomina, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, and Three Bags Full.

I've decided my favorite dynamic of the college football season is that Indiana's quarterback is the most relentlessly positive man alive and Indiana's head coach has never smiled in his life

I wasn’t cheering for anyone in particular, but now that we’ve associated oil rig graphics with the Red Raiders, I might be Go Ducks?

Hmm ‘utterly infatuated’—not what I would have predicted for my year, but I’m open to possibility?

This seems a touch obvious, Co-Star?

"Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have "two" sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings. In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders." 1990. Language evolves, for sure. But they weren’t unclear.

Coffee plus the beginning of Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution has made for a lovely, if slightly disquieting, Sunday morning.

Home in time to watch the Pop-Tarts Bowl (though, may be falling into a doze on the couch during said event since we were on the road at 6am).

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Yum. Full of Christmas lunch. Planning to fall into my post-dinner nap listening to Jeff VanderMeer’s Authority. Merry Christmas, friends!

Absolutely gorgeous Christmas Eve to hike between Warwoman Dell and Martin’s Creek Falls via the Bartram Trail.

A Pat Towers original.

The light's coming back now ha ha i did it, bitches another solstice met and bested

Enjoying the nicest winter solstice in my adult memory.

Em & I were pleased for this game to be scoreless at the half.

So Bama won. Ended up watching Glass Onion & Wake Up Dead Man w/ a good friend & my sister instead of the game.

Did I wear a Tulane tee to work today to annoy the numerous Buckeyes & single Bama fan I have as colleagues? Reader, you already know.

(shiver)

Dad made the local paper with his blacksmithing hobby (hobbies adopted when a chemical engineer retires to southern Appalachians).

“Do you know how to read?” “No. It is one of the black arts.” He nodded. “But a useful one,” he said.

Go Navy! Beat Army! Interesting how having a sister-in-law in the Navy has trumped my long friendship with a retired Army captain.

Currently reading: Maria Reva’s Endling, Sophie Hannah’s Closed Casket, and KC Davis’s How To Keep House While Drowning.

This film, which I have held in my heart ever since I went to see it with Dad at age 11 and he said, “It seems like the sort of thing you’d write.” Every one of my friends has been forced to sit through this at least once.

not liking black licorice is a sign of moral failure