Me today

E-Biked to my appointment at the hospital today and I’m not sure how y’all do this on the regular. I didn’t even bring my work bag with me on this ride 😅 Luckily I had a “practice” rain ride where it was drizzling and learned to put my hood under my helmet or it blows off.

I love Amtrak more than most people, but if my options to go see my family are a 16 hour train ride, a 7 hour drive, or a 3 or 4 hour flight including a layover, I know what I’m normally choosing (and I’ve done all three).

My walk to work is ~10 minutes and people would (and should) judge me if I drove. When I worked at the newspaper, I would regularly drive to places an 8-15 minute walk because crossing 29 or Rio felt crazy. But the few times I did walk places around 29, I probably had fewer bad car interactions!

Wait this is so cool! science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

Does anyone remember what the Charlottesville happy hour website was back in the day?

Me:

A great way to start your Wednesday morning is to look through your camera roll for work-related photos then see all the photos of your now deceased cat! 0/10 recommend!

I love the train. I do not love running down the street to the train because we thought it was leaving 20 minutes later 🥵

Well in my brackets this year I came in 2 out of 18, 14 out of 43 and 18 out of 59. Sadly, only the first place person wins money in the bracket I came in second in.

It feels a lot like 2018.

In the last 5 days I’ve almost been hit in each of these crosswalks while drivers are making this movement. Today I swear the person made eye contact with me before I stepped out into the crosswalk, and last week the person hadn’t even left the slip lane yet when I started crossing High Street.

Hot take? I liked the book Project Hail Mary way better than the movie. And I don’t understand how people are watching the movie and understanding everything!

Like come on.

It’s kind of crazy that the city put this right in the path of the 10 miler less than two days before the race.

My household hasn’t filled a gas tank since January, and I haven’t paid directly to fill a tank since 2025.

We did the cville weekly scavenger hunt and found all of the images except for one: this gosh darn cat. As a certified crazy cat lady, I’m appalled with myself, but also incredibly confused. I’ve never seen this cat downtown in my life. (There is another cat in a window on the mall, but it’s gray.)

This is why I hate ohio state.

How do you write about local journalism in Charlottesville without writing about Sean Tubbs/Charlottesville Community Engagement? You live in Richmond. c-ville.com/how-communit...

I started looking up prior weather closures back in January because I wanted to know if Charlottesville and Albemarle have really had more days closed recently. So far, I’ve made it back to 2015-2016 school year. On April 19 2019, both divisions closed early due to weather.

Things I learned this weekend: -people are still waving inspections when buying houses in 2026 -the cville puzzle hunt was harder than I expected and requires running

86 degrees yesterday and 36 degrees today? Virginia wants to pretend it’s in the Midwest with this rapid weather change. And to think I almost put my sweaters away!

One of the biggest scams is old newspaper archives being behind ANOTHER subscription.

A couple of years ago, when it was my turn to pick a book in a book club I’m in, I picked a nonfiction book and there were women who didn’t even attempt to read it. I brought them copies to borrow, too!

Wow spam texts have gone even more downhill with AI

I went skiing in Colorado for the first time this past weekend and learned I am not a mountain girlie and my body cannot handle 9,000-13,000 feet above sea level. For example: no matter what i did, i could not get my heart rate below ~80. The highest my heart rate has gotten so far today is ~85.

Should be “team ownership: F-“

Listening to university professors drink and bitch is my new favorite thing. “If the boat really starts rocking, we’ll rock it more!!”

The Plain Dealer hasn’t really existed in a number of years as the ownership ended reporter employment under it to kill off the union. cleveland.com is not unionized.

A “parking funeral” is one of the most bizarre things I’ve heard in my life.

I have a lot of regrets of not having my janky college club rowing team watch Cool Runnings. When I was president my senior year, I finally had us buy real unisuits, and I got us another boat and trailer. We also got a few medals too 😅

SHOVEL 👏 YOUR 👏DAMN 👏SIDEWALKS!!!!! There is no excuse for COMMERCIAL property owners along major roads to have not cleared a majority of snow from the sidewalk at this point (LOOKING AT YOU CARTER BANK BUILDING) I just wiped out on black ice trying to avoid the snow piles on the sidewalk 😭

I need an update to this.

I’m ok with the mvp being walker but it probably should’ve been myers. Maybe that’s just the Browns fan in me not trusting kickers 😅

I feel a tiny bit bad for my cousin Mike, but that’s about it.

“Is that Patrick kelce?” - my boyfriend, who was insulted earlier when I said “cardi b, a rapper”

It’s odd that the downtown business group didn’t pay for this but its website is on these bins instead of the city’s.

me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk

My notes are full of comments I have stopped myself from posting. Today, i realized i was going a little too far when i was about to text a former coworker about a county that they covered before we worked together that started with “I am sorry for texting you the most insane question — “

Me about the state of the country right now:

So do we think this is a panic buying thing or something else?

There’s no hope for this nowadays, but my god, we need a mandatory central Virginia civics class for all incoming uva students. Even grad students. (And attending one random public meeting isn’t going to actually teach students anything.)

Me and Travis in this 2018 snowstorm

You’re telling me this person is not using their brights?

Wow if Indiana can win, any team can win ☺️

Local government is so wild lol www.thecentralvirginian.com/news/mineral...

Pardon my language, but fuck this shit. No wonder he didn’t play in the BOWL AGAINST uva. 🤮🖕 The transfer portal shouldn’t open until after bowl season.

You know what’s insane? United Airlines is about to pay for like 60 people to stay in hotels in NOVA rather than drive them to Charlottesville (or tell them about the 20 empty seats on the flight that leaves in 20 min) because the crew timed out. And they can get on a 15 minute flight tomorrow.

This isn’t written by a reporter (or the owners) at Augusta FP, it’s written by George Mason University professors. It’s a labeled a letter, not an article.

Woke up in Cleveland to 2 or so inches of snow and had a moment of panic before I remembered that I’m not in Virginia and people can handle snow OK here 😅