chewing on baseboards would fix me but not my jaw

if you are stressed, you can write yourself a 30-line to-do list, and then you can be more stressed

spiritually today is a thursday

after months of my mouse barely working i got a new one today and was like wow, this is incredible, i can click, i can scroll, i can even drag... then a few hours later i knocked it over and broke it. twilight zone glasses man ass timing again

i've been really whiny about my ankle this week because waking up early makes it much worse, but today i got to sleep in and take excedrin, so now i can whine about other things

there's a popular style of tumblr post that to me is basically linkedin posting for a different crowd

obsessed w/my neighbor's st patrick's day yard skeleton. the man is dead like you're not wrong

how is one specific half-hour of sleep so critical to my ability to function at all. william carlos williams forget the wheelbarrow unless i can take a nap in it

in like two months i might be awake again a little bit

this isn't my favorite week otherwise, but i just opened a window for the first time since maybe october and felt unwritten start blasting in the background (non-diegetically)

to real water fans even a huge pothole puddle of filthy melting month-old snow is beautiful in direct sunlight

i'm not going to handle daylight savings well this weekend

grapefruit tastes like nail polish remover, but that just makes me respect it. the actual worst fruit prize goes to the mulberries produced by the specific tree that used to leave them rotting on the porch of my old apartment for the rat-sized wasps and cat-sized rats to feast on

i love checking the forecast and just seeing "doom"

remembering again

remembering

cucumber smells like what waterfalls look like why have we totally ceded that scent to 12 year old bath and body works customers

every day the cars get bigger. 9 ft tall cars, in your area

back to increasing PT over the last week (not for my jaw. yet) and it feels so nice in the moment and then like 24 hours later, the agonies

please feel free to celebrate valentine’s with these custom mbta-themed ecards made by yours truly

i had no idea there were physical therapy exercises for tmj... what a beautiful world. what if i go to the gym and there are jaw machines there. what if i go to the jym

feeling very put baby in pelican mouth about the snow-covered rivers. friend fragile crust of ice over frigid moving water

chat is it good when the orange line sounds like 100 bees

i keep being like ugh i should go back to physical therapy, but i know exactly what to do, the problem is i also need like 2 weeks where i don't even have to hobble far enough to handle appointments/errands/shoveling and those 2 weeks recede before me like the distant shimmer of water in the desert

cold winters are ecologically important because they keep the tick population from exploding and they also force me to read books i already own instead of tunneling under the snow to the library

how did i lose a whole hammer

unlock the full spectrum of Island

i love "new batch of obscure open access academic ebooks" day at the library

i think there's room for a version of the stopped clock saying that's about how the aggro clock and the de-escalatory clock can both rise to a number of occasions but generally different occasions

i've reached a level of fatigue that can only be achieved in february

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