It’s going to be like this for the next five months, just an endless trickle of bad stuff about this guy.

As predicted, I did not in fact get a parking pass. I will die mad.

Love when you have to ask a student if they used AI and they respond with a long, indignant email about how of course they didn’t use AI And detectors don’t work and then at the end will say something like “I did use [AI tool] to help which I now see is against the syllabus policy.”

Did something good happen

I think Platner is a piece of shit but there’s been no indication that he’ll be a Fetterman. If he wins I suspect he’ll be an average Senator performance wise, while separately also still being a piece of shit. And the reality of the situation is that this is where we are.

Last year they switched to a lottery system for parking passes so you have a couple of thousand grad students competing for a couple of hundred passes and it’s such bullshit. I didn’t get one last year and I probably won’t get one this year either. And I’m a 5th year!

One of the truly most vile people of the past few years, repellant to basic humanity

I need y’all to understand that in order to survive and defeat fascism, I’m deeply committed to building all kinds of coalitions with all kinds of people. It’s the only way. But that doesn’t mean I have to like you! And as soon as this shit is over, I’m picking up my fake Birkin and leaving!

I caved and bought a switch 2 about a month ago and I’ve felt guilty since because it’s such a huge purchase for me and I’m not exactly rolling in money (though I’m good with it so this by no means hurt me) but now I feel like it was a totally justified purchase. No more guilt!

“all cats are just adorable little babies” proof of concept:

Left the cats at my mom’s for a week and returned yesterday and immediately had to go spend the night with my grandma and evidently my Annie was distraught. I feel awful. But also? “Cats are independent” my ass.

Interesting

You REPRIMAND Tomatillo? You place him on the PERFORMANCE PLAN?

Hunter Biden seems like a really complicated guy, and thank god I didn’t meet him in my 20s because every “I can fix him” instinct screams when I see him.

the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

I took a train to Chicago Thursday and I’m taking a bus home today and I have a lot of thoughts about our transit infrastructure right now.

If you had asked me yesterday I would have said in the car with no tissues or anything is the worst place to get a nosebleed but if you ask me that today I’ll tell you it’s in a hotel room sitting on the extremely white bedspread.

Staying in a hotel where they bring you ice and it’s weird. I like being in control of my own ice delivery.

Look I’m not saying it’s a good idea and he doesn’t live there anyway but honestly it seems like at this point Hunter Biden would make a better senate candidate than Platner.

What if they just made an entire guy out of red flags?

For the record, Platner clearly sucks, he’s not very bright, he flirted with nazism, he’s violent, shitty, and probably a pretty bad guy! We have to stop excusing these guys. You can have progressive values and still be a bad person! And being a bad person should be disqualifying!

Oh, that Fox News poll has Husted SWEATING.

I am not a RETVRN person except when it comes to travel. Fewer planes and more trains would fix us.

I bought an ugly purse to take to Chicago with me because I’m middle aged and practical but I’m getting preemptively mad that people are going to think I’m a tourist when it’s a city I’ve spent my entire life going to.

Don’t worry, guys. Beef is too expensive to get now anyway.

No, you will not do this to me again, I will not believe.

I know that theoretically presenting a poster at a conference should be easier than a paper but I’ve been writing papers for a while now and I can bang that out in a couple of days. I’ve been agonizing over this stupid poster for days and I’m convinced it looks terrible.

I usually like when California policy diffuses out to the rest of us but they need to keep that top two primary shit to themselves. I want no part of that.

Have to assume he knew exactly how this was going to go and he said what he said anyway. Good on him.

I have paid exactly zero attention to this primary. Do we have an opinion on the candidates here?

I try not to judge but this is a really weird polycule.

Every time a movie or tv show uses Nina Simone’s “sinnerman” it is the correct decision.

One thing I won’t miss when I finally finish school are the endless parking permit wars.

Hmm.

Watching “the crash” on Netflix and I am completely baffled at the parents being like “you can’t talk to our daughter without a lawyer” to the cops and in the next breath they’re like “but here’s her cell phone, have at it!”

I really think we could turn things around in Ohio if we just got some trains.

They put in a Buc-ees not far from my hometown and I saw it for the first time today and the rage I felt at seeing that monstrosity was indescribable. I have never seen anything like it. It is the Donald Trump of gas stations.

I can’t believe we’re still only at the primary stage of the California governor race. It feels like this race has gone on for years. And I don’t live in California.

Something I think hasn’t gotten enough attention is that in the Indiana state senate district 23 primary (my district) the incumbent prevailed over the trump-backed challenger by *three votes *.

I would like for it to happen this weekend. As a treat.

Had to call the vet and request mood stabilizers for my cat today. They know her too well because the vet was literally like “you need a one month supply or two?” with no further questions.

Love this for the traffic on I-65.

A man steals a couple of office supplies and now it’s a federal crime?

The Democrats have really unleashed the interns lately.

The problem with a four week class is that there is no week in which I don’t have to grade things.

I am blessed with cats that are not scared of thunder or fireworks but we just had lightning hit so close that the breaker box sparked and both the cats did a little jump and then ran like four feet before looking around like they weren’t sure what to do. Not great in crises, these cats.

5/ For five straight days, she laid in a hospital bed, waiting for her situation to get dire enough that doctors — and the hospital's lawyers — would act.

Oliver is currently sitting in front of the closet staring into it and I’ve never felt more uncomfortable in my life.

All of these people are horrible and of course we’re the real losers because for the most part they’re in extremely red states/districts but losing your primary because you stepped a toe out of line after embarrassing yourself 99% of the time for that monster of a president is really something.

Made some homemade raspberry swirl ice cream and I hate to toot my own horn but it is stupendous.