Aw. Thoughts and prayers.

Just wrote “bitches” instead of “pitches” so I think I need to be done with dissertation editing for the night.

It is Saturday, September 6, 2025 and it is 58 degrees in Rochester, MN. Off to our choir cookout wearing flannel, jeans, and my new red wing boots. I suffered heat and humidity for so long. I have earned this. I deserve this. Long may Minnesota reign.

I guess good things don’t happen

This is the first time that a Bill Belichick-coached team has ever allowed 48 points in a game.

I have a vendetta against every dad with a wagon at the Minnesota State Fair. Leave the wagon at home. Your child can walk. Better yet, leave your child at home.

Happy College Football is Back day to all who celebrate

I’ve gotten most of the women above 50 in my choir to join Goodreads. This is evangelism. Amen 🙏🏻

Booking flights home for several weddings this fall and I wasn’t able to get a seat on a row that is divisible by 5 for one of the flights but I think it will still be ok.

Rest in distress, J*mes D*bson 🥰

This arc of Grey’s Anatomy deals with a clinical trial for epileptics with temporal lobe tumors and why is Shonda Rhimes trying to kill me?

Started my new dose of Keppra today (the miracle drug that makes my brain tumor behave). There will be a weeklong adjustment period. The full body chills have already set in. Epilepsy is so fun 💅 Please do not hold me responsible for anything I say or do the next 5ish days 😇 #CarpeDiem

Getting ready for my 12th brain MRI in 8 years. Does that mean the next is free? Do baker’s dozen rules apply here?

Starting my yearly marathon of tests to make sure Hans is still behaving. It’s still wild to me that I can walk to the best epilepsy care in the country. Hoping they will not be able to induce a seizure during my EEG this morning 🙏🏻

I can’t stop thinking about how good Fantastic Four was. Dan Sl*tt this movie is not for you. I will never forgive you for what you did to my sweet boy Franklin Richards.

BUBBA WALLACE WINS!!!! 😍😍😍🏁🏁 AHHHHHHHH

This is the first #Brickyard400 I’m missing since 2016 🥲 (and COVID) #NASCAR

I love you, Johnny Storm

The Toys R Us in the Mall of America is full of millennials, not a child in sight, and I think that’s beautiful

First day with Dorico. This is awesome but none of the Sibelius keyboard shortcuts work 😭

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media. This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

It is July 17, 2025 and it’s 58 degrees as I walk to work this morning. I am blessed and highly favored. Never leaving Minnesota.

Me frantically looking around the dining room of this hotel to see what the British people eat with a fork/knife and what they eat with their hands. Who eats bacon with a fork?!

You know what? Baked beans for breakfast sorta slaps

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

BREAKING: In the wake of what appears to be a series of politically motivated shootings in Minnesota that left two people dead, House Republicans are calling for stronger security at their homes to protect them from the violence they have been inciting for years.

What a wonderful thing to greet me on my first day as a Minnesota resident

WOOOO!!!

“Y’all are the most prepared house we’ve moved all year.” We won moving. Thank god.

I hope we like this house in Minnesota because I will not be leaving it once we get all of our shit there. Humans were not meant to move. This is awful.

Let’s go Canes!!! Not all hope is lost (yet)

Ross Chastain, what a masterful drive. Outstanding stuff. Huge for Trackhouse, too. Chastain has won a NASCAR Major.

LET’S GOOOOOO Ross Chastain!!! A joy and a privilege to watch William Byron lose in person. 🏁🔥🏁🔥🏁 #NASCAR #CocaCola600

😭😭😡😡 SOS My boyfriend has wrecked

Jesus be a fence. P*te H*gs*th is here giving a “state of freedom” address before the race and it is truly some fascist bullshit.

Welp. At least Kyle Larson will make the Coke 600 with plenty of time this year 😇 #NASCAR

How The hell Do you sit In the wrong seat On the plane Match the number and letter On your ticket To the number and letter On the plane It could not be Simpler You could not be more Incompetent

Love flying the “wrong way” on Indy 500 weekend. Charlotte Motor Speedway, here I come ❤️🏁 #NASCAR #CocaCola600

Cowboy Carter healed me

Chicago ❤️

Trying to let my Duolingo streak die because I hate their stance on AI but I equally hate how much I love a stupid little streak.

my favorite aspect of how ANDOR ends is how the villains do suffer, but not at the hands of the protagonists, because fascism eats its own even while it has the upper hand

The key lesson of Andor: Fascist collaborators get nothing. Death, ignominy, anonymity.

"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.” - Mon Mothma, #Andor S2 Ep9 Wake up.

“I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said today and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous." —Mon Mothma #Andor

If I didn't understand how television worked I would swear that tonight's #Andor trilogy was a direct response to that post from the White House on May the 4th.

Star Wars has never been more relevant than this arc of Andor tonight. #Andor #StarWars

I’m not prone to hyperbole I am actually very chill but Andor is the best television show ever made

This is absolutely awful.