GREAT NEWS Tho I already composed the emails I needed it for it’s April 1st which means this is on my dash just in time for me to hit send

To get through my docket for the night I could really use a playlist of the most abrasively peppy EDM

It’s always a good day when I can bring my writing group participants the chapbooks printed with their work! Even if it’s so late I owe them another one…

I had decided that I’d lost this knife in the last pair of panicked moves, which I’ve been proud to not lose through the previous 14 or so moves since it was given to me at 12. Strange little joys sometimes!

Alas, it has been determined this is the most practical way to wear my hair for hockey

I was a lil worried about not playing for over 3 weeks before my MHC alum game but one of my teammates hasn’t played in 3 years. (She’s under 25, tho!)

Heard recently someone express that fake swears give them the ick and this is now haunting me (Like, I get it!)(But also…)

Brain fizz. Must Stardew the heck out and sleep!

In a beautiful plot twist, after leaving the inspection queue because I had my old registration, my new registration WAS IN MY IMPORTANT CAR FILES FOLDER Wrong, but orderly

Doing psychological warfare to myself by wearing my gym shoes while still in pajamas as a signal to get something anything done

This researcher still needs respondents to their survey for readers of English translations of Chinese #wuxia novels–share and help them out! University of Bristol UK researcher, online questionnaire. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/arts/readi...

Anyone know about good off-boarding tools? That sounds silly (right terminology would be great, too) but I’m really interested in how to have good communication at a closing. Volunteer esp. but employee, too! Exit interview?

HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how. This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.

More Sirens crafts! One is my attempt at evoking an Austen scene and the other I’ve decided is the shape of a long-awaited story…

Only $32 away from the next Stretch Goal in the WERE-2 anth #Kickstarter about were-creatures other than #werewolves --an interior illustration by Ariel Guzman! Who will push us over?!? Back now at www.kickstarter.com/projects/znb/were-2 ! Only FIVE DAYS left! #urbanfantasy #fantasy #booksky #sff

First coffee back home, soon to be first workday after @sirensconference.org Bittersweet. What am I taking into the time until we meet again?

Night Market Snaps! A lovely time with several making opportunities, live auction of cool offering, and fun outfits at @sirensconference.org New twist on old favorites!

Sometimes I think I’m pretty close to normal only sometimes I also wake up convinced I’ve been doing facial expressions wrong (from an anxiety dream?)

My body is NOT being a team player at this conference. It probably has a point! But that’s a real shame for both of us, haha

@sirensconference.org is doing it right with morning crafts every day but late enough I can get breakfast

Morning Joy! At Sirens! We tried our hands at journal making for neither productivity nor profit with @bethanypowell.bsky.social!

Forget about the jiff vs giff debate why aren’t we all used this just-eavesdropped “g-i-f images”

@sirensconference.org we’re happening!

I would harbor less hatred in my heart for vacuums if I ever got to use one that worked

Oddly common interaction for me: a person is struck by my hair*, admires it, then desires to help me better care for it. (I deserve this.) In yesterday’s incident, theirs was straight, though, so I didn’t go too much into detail about the weather’s fault in my situation.

HEART STOPPING moment this am when the PA mentioned maybe having to leave the stitches in a few more days. Fortunately, we agreed the stitches&bandaids were the thing my skin was mad about!

search your camera roll for “hell”

I’m glad I said to two people “There’s no way I’m finishing this my Monday, is there?” on Friday when I got my copy of Ministry for the Future because it turns out I AM motivated by defiance sometimes. And they said, “No, definitely not.”

I had TWO writing sessions today. It was *not* because I had the time for it. (But it probably *is* because I had a good therapy session yesterday, haha.)

Has a partner ever pressured you to eat less/more/differently against your wishes? If so, what did that pressure look like in action? How did you respond to it? And how would you characterize the relationship as a whole?

Very excited about @sirensconference.org next week, though also terrified it’s next week! I accidentally ended up with 3 facilitation sessions to prep for, haha.

I am in sensory purgatory rn with stitches under bandaids—there is no OTC treatment for this, right?

The contrasting emotion: shaking your head at an erratic driver in front of you only to realize too late they were skating the edge of the abyss

Genuinely so excited to hear rain every time esp. after dark

The alarmingly funny environmental storytelling of shards of a broken traffic cone around a massive pothole

Great reasoned AND emotional discussion of the US Men’s hockey team w/Trump and the particular injury to the Canadian fan of teams some of them lead from @sdpnsports.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Reminder that there is a No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle of games available on itch. It's 10% away from reaching its current goal. itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

People at the next table hearing about The Good Place for the first time. truly we all do live in different worlds

Building a syllabus for my workshop inside a women’s pod. It is an act of care, even tho I am always rushing. Because of high turnover I can reuse familiar ones but am now drawing more examples from work written in my groups, than published poets—sometimes with both.

Gender studies on the ground in Minnesota.

This week wrote about “awe” with folks in recovery, and my own piece was about having a niece & nephew—new kin! Then in the jail brought a bunch of seed words, and a lot of us wrote about time and life.

In my experience the people who are the most awful about and to children also are disgusted by disabled adults--and their needs and vulnerabilities. Its fundamentally an atavistic fear of dependence in a culture that fetishizes hyper individualism; and a very dangerous fear it is, too.

As long as I’ve been able to read, I’ve always hated the US for its hypocrisy and cruelty, claiming superiority while inflicting violence and exploiting everyone, but today…

Just heard someone pronounce the current hot trend in books as “roMANtsy” which I misheard as all the YA were romance-y now but officially love this as the pronunciation of romantasy

So my flavor of anxiety involves skipping to finding the silver linings of bad things that haven’t happened yet, how about you?

This week's Thursday snippet comes from my enemies-to-lovers fantasy rom-com Enchanting the Fae Queen - which arrives in just over 2 months! Preorder now: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen #romancelandia

What’s your hometown slop? Sorry to expose you, Boston, but don’t pretend this isn’t real, my mom was far too enthusiastic about it

Just found out my 2026 birthday is on a Tuesday… because Ann Leckie’s new book is coming out on my birthday!!!

TFW all your best laid plans apparently hinged on a good night’s rest

I wrote about how RFK Jr is making health worse for millions of Americans. He's slashed research and healthcare, and replaced them with "hAvE yOu TrIeD YoGa?" Link & free link in thread. There are impeachment/removal proposals in both the House and Senate. Tell your electeds to boot this guy out!