Cool! Coworker got a new, much louder fidget toy!

Have somehow been absorbed into the office Staff Engagement Committee, so I suppose I'm a popular party planning girlie now?

One of my tasks with nannying family is doing their massive sink full of dishes. Every morning. Well, they’re refusing to buy new dishwasher pods, so I’m refusing to do dishes. #servantdiaries

The Fallout S2 premiere was good and I had truly wild dreams because of it!

as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it

Need to adjust my attitude today. I feel awful.

I know "Die Hard" is y'all's favorite Christmas movie but there's another film that has a lot of elements of "Die Hard" PLUS a much more involved Christmas message and musings on the "invisibility" of homelessness. This Christmas, check out "Tokyo Godfathers." www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainmen...

We are FUCKED, y’all!

Sam Price in Children of Ash and Elm describing popular Viking children’s toys such as toy longships, “monster masks” and even a toddler sized chair with a dowel to keep the young friend in place = 😭😭😭 Material culture is so wonderful. I heartily recommend history books written by archaeologists!

Current mood. Insta wouldn’t let me use Joe and the Shitboys’ FOR EVERYBODY but that song is the vibe! 🖕

Drew myself a nice bubble bath and it turned out to be… ice cold. :<

I got ridiculed so much for my Appalachian speech when I moved to the DC area, I completely got rid of most of it. Really grinds my gears when some of it slips through unintentionally and then someone is a jerk about it. Like they don't also have regional speech!

So this book was GREAT, but let’s be real, I’m reposting for the chance at Uggi merch 😍

It’s been a long time since I considered adding to my tiny souvenir jacket collection, but this just awoke the URGE in me…

Glad I’m WFH today, because nothing makes you want to go in to your job at a university quite like a mass shooting at another university. 🙃

Made a big farmer’s pie for Sunday dinner 💕

My next Libby hold is that history of cod (fish) and I am so excited! Yay niche nonfiction!

Didn’t have a lot of room in my luggage so had to work real small with my Reykjavík thrifting. Shoutout to the old guy who sold me the Bósa Saga book tentatively asking “Nei bara… do you write Icelandic?” No, sir. Þú og ég both know why I’m here. (Finds from Kolaportið and Verzlanahöllin)

Show me a fictional character that altered your brain chemistry. Porco Rosso gave me the language for my aviation disaster trauma and survivor’s guilt that I had gone without for decades. I too am self-cursed to be a pig.

first day at my job as thomas cromwell. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the king. buddy, they won’t even let me fuck him

Concept: Count Olaf burlesque act, set to to Arsonist’s Lullaby.

But look at this fun lil guy @dwitzl.bsky.social picked up for me at the meet 🥰🐧

This extra needy oddpet deserves to get launched into the sun! What are you, a Tamagotchi Umi or something? Stop yelling at me!

aliens fly their ships low over our cities at night and tell each other "i remember when this all used to be woods"

It’s my Tamagotchi club meetup today but I am also feeling v overstimulated by my virtual pets today! Y’all are losing all your batteries as soon as I get home, you little jerks!

Had one of those robotic baby dolls they give you to take care of for the wknd in 7th grade. I went to the 2nd Harry Potter movie. Baby started crying + I couldn’t get it to turn off. The robot baby crying reached a climax, upon which the film promptly BURNED UP on the projector. We all got refunds.

Still wildly bored! I wish I had taken my friends up on plans in DC tonight.

Crimson Peak time. If nothing else, I deserve some Tom Hiddleston.

BOREDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I gotta admit, I briefly looked at job listings in Iceland. And had ~15 minutes when I wanted to be a dagmamma. I think I’m better now.

Plans I was looking forward to most of the week fell thru for the evening, so you know what that means. The boxed rosé flows early tonight. I might even do a second face mask and fire up Crimson Peak for a rewatch later.

Just finished the Glass Woman by Caroline Lea. V gothic. Glad I stuck with it. I almost felt Crimson Peak vibes at times.

Speaking from the experience of my undergrad degree: you can’t make the historic preservationists mad. They’re certainly not in it for the money. They’re like those airplane mechanic nerds: in it for the love of the game, and the love of the game only. Don’t you get between them and an old building.

I try not to order books on Amazon but just had to this time for a holiday gift. Instead of a book, I received what could only be described as the tattered recipient of someone’s very bad day, with a ripped spine and marks from where it was def stomped and kicked into the dirt with a shoe. Wtf?

"The report estimates there are roughly 39,000 fewer foreign-born child care workers since Trump took office in January. There are also 77,000 fewer American mothers of preschool-aged children in the workforce since that time, a result that researchers found is tied to the impact of ICE arrests."

I made the soonest appt for a haircut with my stylist (Feb 4). It took me the entire pandemic to grow, but I'm getting tired of my "long" hair. I think it ages me a lot, sometimes it's a sensory nightmare, and I don't get any joy out of caring for it or styling it. Maybe it's time for a change.

Every fascist movement targets the arts. Engage in radical activity. Read and discuss books, paint, write music, attend plays. Everything is political and everyone has a role in the revolution.

J.R.R. Tolkien, literal Butlerian Jihadist

You will be visited by three spirits.

Everyone needs to listen to Gustav Holst's "The Planets", not for hoity-toity nerd reasons, but because every epic sci-fi movie OST for the past century has been directly lifting shit from this one specific collection of pieces, and you deserve to hear your favourite motif in its native environment.

So I watched In the Heart of the Sea on the plane coming back from KEF. It's a deeply familiar story to me, intimate as my very breath, and I felt like film (or at least this film) maybe wasn't the best way to tell it. It's a terrible tale, and all of it felt cheapened somehow.

UH OHHHH I was cleaning up my work desktop and found my c*nty little bob inspo folder! Is 2026 the year for the big chop?

But that was my emotional support 21-hour nonfiction audiobook what do you mean it’s “finished”

Nannying family’s garage door doesn’t work when it’s cold. This is the 3rd winter that they haven’t elected to fix it. Every AM I have to text to beg to come inside. 🙃 Where’s that rando who told me that poor people count dollars and rich people count pennies, again? Must be saving a lot of pennies.

Why does it hurt when other people live your dreams? 🍝