people spelling it "meyers briggs" may be one of my biggest pet peeves

the audacity and sense of entitlement required to *pass* someone who slowed down at a yellow light in order to run a red

however, my *favorite* part of my office's design is the way the motion detecting bathroom sinks turn off if i put my hands underneath the water

anyway I'm rereading Arika Okrent's book about invented languages and got to the quote "If you plant a plastic flower, will it grow?" on page 3 & I'm remembering why I was so obsessed with this book

just recalling how excited I got that time when, as a language assistant in France, I ran into some of the middle schoolers I taught on the street, and they tried to teach me Verlan and of course I already knew the rules because I'm a language nerd who spoke French

sorry st paul but i just walked from a bar to a park after the rain ended and had the thought "it's almost like living in a city"

man, fuck global warming

i gotta stop watching invincible while i eat lunch

rip doctor who (it's fine it needed to happen)

if you as a car do not instantly stop when you see me at the crosswalk it is my god given right to take my sweet time crossing while you wait for me

why do cats follow you into the bathroom

resuming my effort to get into big finish (i purchased the second half of the 8th doctor main range with charley like two years ago) and relistened to a natural history of fear. it works *really* damn well as an audio play

today is the birthday of the guy i knew in college who never wore shoes until he broke his foot (and then he had to wear shoes and didn't stop once his foot was better)

to top off a shitty weekend, a neighborhood bar/restaurant dropped my go-to happy hour cocktail from their menu

i am so tired of every vendor IT support site for my job clearly using AI to generate incorrect, irrelevant feedback in response to my questions

i just turned 30 why is facebook already giving me ads about perimenopause

yknow there's been a google maps landmark at the address next to me for two years that says "giant elm tree" for forever but i only really looked at the tree today and, hot dog that is one LARGE elm tree

local ice cream place finally opened and their prosecco sorbet float was EXACTLY what i needed today

it's so funny to me how often i'm encountering people who will accidentally refer to me as "she" and immediately correct themselves to they/them (i have never told anyone to use they/them pronouns)

just saw someone on threads equate jacob frey with mamdami 🫠

doing a bit where i insist that "chai tea" in english is actually derived from a mispronunciation of "Thai tea"

having an unfurnished apartment is not a character flaw send tweet

the fact that all support tickets get me an AI response that utterly fails to answer my very specific questions is getting *exhausting*

note to self: fma is not a good show to rewatch when sad

if you tailgate me and honk at me while i am following the car in front of me from a safe distance then i will slow down 10mph. sorry that's just how it is

two of my apartment neighbors came over and cleaned my unit for me for like 30 minutes and god it's been ages since I've felt so cared for

the playstation spiderman games are the BEST for just numbing out and enjoying a story to forget what sucks in my life and if there's anything remotely similar to it i would TAKE those recs

i need a PS5 spiderman game for chicago

there's a couple on a date sitting next to me at a bar talking about personality types and it's really, really hard for me to not interrupt them

it'd be so cool to audit ling classes at a local university, shame i have a full time job

i just used the terms "shipping" and "copypasta" with some friends who just looked at me blankly and it's counterintuitive that *this* is the thing that's made me feel the most online i ever have, but it did

at night my cat sits by my feet and in the morning he sits by my face. what does it mean

showed up early to the bar where there will be a dance to drink, because i am sad and lonely and depressed, and a stranger, an older woman, greeted me as i ordered my first drink and told me that my haircut is beautiful

i'm sorry, there's an apartment building in madison, wi called "quisling terrace"? who tf—

closest i ever got to being a horse girl was nancy drew: secret of shadow ranch but in another timeline it could have happened

caffeine is a beautiful name for a girl

saw a post postulating that the reason married people are healthier is because they have someone to check in on them, drive them to the hospital, affirm when their symptoms are bad enough to be worth seeing a doctor, and i am newly terrified of living alone

i don't necessarily think it should be impossible to drive in a city, but i do think it should be impossible to drive *fast*

just drove like 30-45 minutes (or more) out of my way to try and get a particular seltzer i like from a liquor store only to realize upon arrival that the location i was driving to was a *restaurant/bar* that happens to stock it *for customers* rip me

literally why do i not live in chicago

you know those "HOW'S MY DRIVING" signs on trucks with a phone number? i need one that goes HOW'S MY DRIVING? CALL: your senator. tell them to fund better trains.

when i was in high school a guy i was sort of friends with and who i had been sending some very long messages back and forth with for a couple months bought me one of those chocolate bars with a love poem on the wrapper for my birthday and i was just like "huh, weird"

watching the pitt for the first time, i'm on episode 3, and i regret to inform you that if i was the one who was stabbed with a nail i would probably have been the one who made the "nailed it" joke

i retrieved the fishing pole to play with the cat and he's still trying to attack my toes how do i fix this

wow i would love to stop getting ads for "femboy fitness: we'll help you lose weight and look more femme" on facebook

friendships of convenience were the bane of my existence when i was in high school/college but now that I'm an adult i think they might be the best thing ever

Why did the White House just post this on Instagram?

texted an old friend and reconnected on a shared interest that we've *both* done a deeper dive on over the last ten years and WOW does it feel good to reconnect with someone and be on a different page than before, but somehow still on the same page?

listening to the latest episode of chris damian's podcast and remembering how commonly i heard the point "if they left, were they ever really there?" and i'm thinking about how dangerous it is, when people in your community take a divergent path from yours, to feel that they never truly believed

"why isn't bridgerton just doing eloise's story first" because they aggressively ace-coded eloise and they need another season to backtrack on it before they can give her a storyline appropriate for the regency era sex show