coaxing the faucets into dripping at a reasonable pace takes more dexterity and indeed virtuosity than most musical instruments

love to see herds of magnificent snowplows roaming the streets

all the french toast jokes are making me want french toast and i don't even really like french toast

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

the mystic (little home) and the charles (big home). e coli 💪

developing the glutens in my calf/ankle

bus drivers who honk in support of protests >>>>>>>>>>>

i love my beautiful friend the mbta who traps me in the netherworld of shuttle buses outside of the passage of ordinary time

it's ok to be up rereading the new colossus at 2 am and even 2:21 it only gets alarming at 3 am

#uspoli i'm losing my fucking mind about too many things at once

fondly remembering the time the local police texted to say stay indoors until we contact you again!!, then didn't text again until they had a message about street sweeping over a month later

if anyone i know will be downtown today and doesn't mind meeting up lmk, my ankle is in bad enough shape that i'd feel better with company

i should be able to sort jstor by kudos

literally went to brunch and then drove home under a night sky and a full moon >:(

my whereidlive map of the united states is literally just massachusetts it would take me another two decades to learn my way around anywhere else

sometimes you're googling something about a book and you click on a pdf google result you assume is a review or interview or something and it's just the actual book and you have to start hurdy-gurdying 🥺🏴‍☠️ eventually i'm going to get a virus instead

# of windows i need to shrinkwrap: 3 # of windows i should probably shrinkwrap: 5 # of windows i have shrinkwrapped: 1 # of times i said "fucking christ" while doing so: approx. 34 # of achilles tendons used standing on a ladder: at least 2 # of wind mph: too many # of degrees: not enough

time to read the wikipedia page about wind

about to ruin my succulent brownie batter by putting it in the oven

eccentric exercises sound like they should be way more fun than they are

i may finally have to shovel 😔

#uspoli 60 minutes cecot episode

i'm going to be very bored for the next week or two while everyone's out of town and i can't walk and it's very important that i remember it's temporary and i don't have time to try to learn portuguese

the sunk cost fallacy is valid and correct when it's me with french tbh

booktok videos always make me long to own beautiful foil-covered sprayed-edge matching editions of complete series, and then i have to gently explain to myself that i have to read and enjoy an entire series first

burning the warm type of fat should be like tensing a muscle: automatic when needed but easy to do manually. instead the only UI is "suffer for a while"

overwhelmingly important news from edith wharton's wikipedia page

trying to redirect myself from stress buying books to stress refreshing my library holds, but i think that's going to lead to stress requesting (restresting) more holds, which is actually also a problem

i don't think i generally form parasocial relationships with celebrities, influencers, twitch streamers, etc., but i do form parasocial relationships with the lecturers for the great courses series and they're all my enemies

midwesterners are always saying things like "haha we're so weird in the midwest, we say things nobody else understands like 'hello' and 'soda' and 'you too!'"

i say this literally every day and then i'm mysteriously transmuted into a person exactly like my former self in every way except this one conviction BUT i really need to go to bed on time tonight and then also sleep through the night

every few years you must become briefly obsessed with one or more instances of phrasing scattered around the wikipedia hyena page, for your health

having a locker room talk with myself about how things like today, my period, most injuries, and this winter will end. i think it's working a little only because i hate the idea of listening to even an imaginary locker room pep talk so much that it's reconciling me to everything else i hate

time to hibernate

[archaeologist voice] so this is a site from the le creuset culture, known for its colorful and really fucking heavy cast iron cookware. ah fuck they found another one. just leave it in the ground man my back hurts

i don't have an informed opinion on the accuracy of this translation, but i can say for sure that "the huēyi tlahtoāni (reverend speaker) ahuitzotl" would have confused me 300% less in the first second after reading

having an extremely low blood pressure day so i am practicing self care (chugging salty snacks and thinking about my pet peeves)

Watch the #NationalDayOfMourning livestream here on Nov. 27 at 12 noon EST. #nothanksnogiving #thankstaking www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...

rip to the territory but the map is different. and better. maybe even better than the territory

youtube auto-cc thinks "jarl" is "charles." welcome back leigh bardugo grisha

i worked at a grocery store for years, thanksgiving rush isn't news, but i always feel mildly baffled about where everyone came from. what were you eating for the rest of the year

Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app

i hate driving but i do like being able to disapprovingly say "25% of deer accidents occur in november" to people zooming by me and know they can't hear me

why do people keep writing 900 page history books on subjects i'm curious about. break that shit up. end on a cliffhanger

that tumblr post about (woodrow) wilson and (edward) house is all fun and games until the book you're reading yourself reaches the wilson years

my city is likely a little larger in area and population than the classic period mayan city-state tikal (/yax mutal?) at its peak and yet has zero jaguar temples