I just splurged on my first pair of noise canceling headphones and when I put them on at the gate and it became dead silent, I could feel all of the overwhelm draining out of my body. How did I not make this investment when I was diagnosed? I could have been so much calmer for all this time. #autism

Of course the day when I have to fly three hours and then drive three hours after that is the night I wake up at 3:00 in the morning and can’t get back to sleep. Luckily, I always sleep on airplanes.

Baby’s first krokbragd. Those selvages are so hard to keep tidy, which is why you can’t see them. #handweaving

I am delighted that @sgj.bsky.social and @scalzi.com will both be at the Texas Book Festival again this year! It’s a great lineup in general but those two are the icing on the cake!

These are the instructions my Nanny kept from the polio hospital my dad was in for almost a year as a boy. The had to have entire hospitals for kids with polio. I can’t believe we are on our way back to this. #vaccines #polio

It is your last chance to see me build a box for free! I promise it will be a good time! And if you attend, you are registered to win a fabulous door prize! Register at gaylord-archival.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Jean-Ralphio is sooooooo long today! #caturday

I was on @texasstandard.bsky.social today talking about how to salvage flood damaged family treasures. Please consider sharing to get the message out that their photos and papers may be able to be saved. #kerrvillefloods #centraltexasfloods www.texasstandard.org/stories/texa...

Yay. It was too rainy here in Central Texas for fireworks last night so my across the street neighbors are making up for it tonight.

My latest paint by numbers project. Obviously, it is called The Yowl. It feels like the perfect expression of what it feels like to be a person living in the world right now.

When someone who has judged multiple times on RuPaul’s Drag Race tells you that they like your dress you know two things: 1) it’s a LOT of look. 2) it’s probably okay even if you feel like a Mardi Gras float in it. #atxtvs14

My lanyard is all ready to go with buttons of festivals past. If you’re going to be at #atxtvs14, say hello!

48 hours before the start of @atxfestival.bsky.social. Trying to figure out what else I can watch to be maximally prepared! 7 more episodes of Shrinking are the priority, though.

My latest paint by numbers project. I call it “Ennui.”

I’m preparing for a hopefully fun vacation next week and the stress of that has me about to back out of going. It’s also put the state of the world on the backburner in my mind which should be a relief but really just makes me feel like I’m a horrible person. There’s no way to win here and it sucks.

I am steadily following the news and it’s all terrifying and I feel myself getting numb and unable to finish certain articles

Happy little springtime paint by number of a cat. #paintbynumbers

Iceland’s costumes look like a Lithuania if Lithuania was having fun. #eurovision

If one was up all night with crazy anxiety dreams about a fun but stressful event that is right around the corner, 9:45 is not too early to take a nap, right? Asking for a friend.

The best thing about being my own boss is that I can schedule my work so I can watch Eurovision. I love it so much.

I took a news break most of the weekend and felt semi-ok, all things considered. But I just caught up and now am ready to hide under the covers and cry for the next four to twenty years, so that’s great.

These three are going to be sorely disappointed when they discover that I plan to take a nap right there in about 2 minutes.

Putting a new warp on the loom is one of the best feelings in the world. Alll that counting and precision makes everything else in the world just melt away. #handweaving

Just finished the last episode of Lost as part of an epic year-long rewatch that I’ve been doing with friends. So beautiful! I have been sobbing all night. What a great show that was.

Am I being called out here?

I loved the books, Penn Badgley is great as Joe and #YouOnNetflix is so watchable. But also, I feel like my IQ drops 5 points after every episode just watching these people.

Today has been such a rough one. Although I figured he wasn’t doing well, I wasn’t prepared for #MikePeters to die today, and I certainly didn’t expect the teenage me inside the 59 year old me to be so affected. I’ve been in tears on and off all day and it’s exhausting.

Devastated to hear that Mike Peters of The Alarm died overnight. Without their music I would have killed myself before I hit 25. No hyperbole. And then he grew up into a tremendous man who did so much for cancer research. He’ll be missed. youtu.be/DUPbQi78WHI?...

Last week very few students actually did work during the open lab class time I gave them, so this week I said “fuck it,” cancelled class and graded while the three students who were committed to the work came in and worked. It was way more fun and now I’m done grading for the semester.

The most perfect song ever. youtu.be/5NVN0SO4mYI?...

Who is the handsomest boy? And the bestest boy? #caturday

Going to bed at 7:30 would be just fine, wouldn’t it?

Don't let the noise about that "Garden of American Heroes" vanity project overshadow yesterday's other press release and its condescending insinuations about the labor of #NEH staff, peer reviewers, and applicants. We're the ones who make the #humanities happen for all.

Today I taught two hands on classes back to back and then drove home in rush hour for four hours, arriving home well after dark. It was a good day but I am just so tired and yet too wired to sleep.

I have pretty much every streamer known to man and have been scrolling through them for an hour and can’t find a damn thing to watch. What is wrong with me?

Received today from a friend’s Etsy store. Already Jean-Ralphio approved and sure to be a valuable cat accessory for a long time to come.

About 20 feet of cloth waiting to become dish towels. What an accomplishment this was! #handweaving

Everything may be terrible but at least the @atxfestival.bsky.social is having a King of the Hill reunion and preview of the reboot at this year’s festival.

I just got word my passport renewal was approved. I feel more relieved than I care to admit!

A film that takes place where you’re from.

I did some math today about the #NEH Preservation Assistance Grants that were cancelled. The grant usually funds about 65 institutions a year and the max award is $10K. The base cost for a 2025 Cybertruck is about $70K, so the whole PAG program costs less than 10 Cybertrucks. It’s so infuriating.

This grant program, which has a total budget of less than a million dollars per year and helps approximately 60 small institutions care for their collections each year was officially cancelled for 2025 and may never be back. I am heartbroken. #neh

Just clarifying, though this is not difficult to grasp: Anyone working on an industry project with a notorious transphobic bigot is OK with transphobic bigotry. The end.

Finished another little #paintbynumbers of a cat today. This adorable little VanGogh kitty is painting the universe. #FosterCat Jean-Ralphio approves.

There is so much excitement in the back yard this #caturday!

Here’s a little blep from the sweetest sleepy boy, just in case you need to see something that isn’t horrible this morning.

I didn’t mean to, but I watched all of North of North last night. It was so lovely and I needed something warm and generous in a big way. If you also need a little escape from the hellpit we find ourselves in, here you go.

This just broke me tonight. If he wants a dumb sculpture garden he can pay for it with the money he uses for golfing. This is not what the NEH was established to do and diverting that money will cause so much hardship to so many institutions that run on a shoestring budget.

I swear, these days I want to go to bed at 7:30 or 8:00, not because I’m tired but just because I need the day to be done.

The entire annual budget of the Institute of Museum and Library Services that was just gutted by the Trump administration is $280 million, most of which is returned to the states as grants. So good to know that Trump’s vanity is more important than vital services to Americans.