Messi is a 38 year old, just like all of us.

I really appreciate how many female commentators and game callers I’m seeing / hearing in this World Cup

Powdered sugar. I know it doesn’t make sense cause it’s just sugar, but it tastes weird and chemically and I don’t want it near any of my baked goods.

Okay but that man is attractive, competent at his job, and a grown ass adult (unlike most players)… so how many of those new followers are women over 30 do we think?

Don’t think I’ve ever been this stoked for a team I knew nothing about prior to today. Hot damn. My hat is off to Cabo Verde. Also #USMNT could take some lessons from that defense.

This Cape Verde keeper is really doing his job.

Damn, we didn’t fuck it up for once. Well done, boys #USMNT

Two that stick out: - Billed as a romance and I got a third of the way in and we hadn’t met the MMC yet. Didn’t care to wait it out. - Audiobook w/ the worst “Texas accent”. And I wasn’t being precious about it as a Texan - it was a bad attempt at any kind of Southern-ish US accent.

let it sink in: AI is ruining cats on the internet. is God dead?

My friends get like one “but really please watch this one” per quarter. Otherwise I tell them to assume I will never watch.

I’m am not, as usual, deeply disappointed… yet. So there’s that. I don’t know that I’d say I’m actually impressed, but I’m not mad. But Timmy, buddy, you’re on defense for a reason. Maybe actually stay there?

Alright #USMNT, let’s see how this goes.

Saving this to use as a primer for the next time someone asks me what I’m looking for in a partner, and then gives me a confused look when I say my usual answer: “A wife, but male.”

God bless women friends and the clarity they bring to my rage (usually at men)…

Sometimes you hate a public enemy more than the average folk because you have personal experience with it / them, but also sometimes the general commentary on said public enemy is just… bad… and also often wrong… Hate for the right reasons, people!

As much as academic writing isn’t so much my jam, I am enjoying this particular article writing process for the research project I did last year. It’s not a replacement for creative writing, but it’s definitely scratching an itch at the moment. 1500 words down, another 1500 or so to go.

Told our waitress tonight at dinner that I was at the restaurant 90% for my favorite dessert while I was in town, and she packed up an extra one for me to take with me for free. And now Maegan is my new favorite person in Fort Worth. Sorry, Mom and Dad.

i heard french peasants got to eat cake, so

I’ve gone on two roadtrips with friends in the last few months, and I have learned that I am more focused on the goal (getting where we’re going) than other people. I lose patience with dawdlers so fast.

I saw wild horses and it was neat.

I bought stuff for salads this week… and I’ve actually eaten said salads. Is this personal growth and maturity?

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

Made it, with 72 minutes to spare.

I have 150 pages to finish before book club tomorrow at 7pm ET. Will I or won’t I?

Lukewarm take: Salad (of the lettuce / vegetable dominant kind) should not be eaten cold. Gotta leave that to sit out for at least an hour or put something hot on top. Extra cold vegetables are too aggressive.

I was a gifted child and all I got was rage that everything that made me good at school was deemed aggressive or unapproachable by Mediocre Men in Business.

Top 15 TV shows, gut instinct reaction… Normal People Haunting of Hill House Psych Midnight Mass Schitts Creek Alias Gilmore Girls Brooklyn 99 The Good Place Vicar of Dibley Somebody Somewhere Station Eleven Playing House Eureka Fleabag (season 2)

It is a broken Christianity that says “God protected him!” when a president survives and “thoughts and prayers” when school kids die.

I was in 7th grade the first time I was exposed to gun violence. A church near us had a shooting - 7 died - one was a girl in my brother’s class. We went to her funeral. Not sure I’ll ever know how to forgive my parents’ generation for the fact that we haven’t made any meaningful progress.

Hunger Games: Catching Fire… as both an adaptation and a second big franchise movie, it is better than it has any right to be.

A positive side of working with an all male team I know well: I got pissed off in a meeting and more or less yelled at all of them, and their response was essentially to applaud and tell me to do it more often (plus they admitted I was right).

The single best remedy to my moments of acute anxiety is a shot of Fireball. Just in case anyone needs a tip.

And just to be abundantly clear: NASA AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL HAVE MASSIVE RETURN ON INVESTMENT. Cutting this budget is a net financial LOSS in the medium- to long-term. It undermines our future -- intellectually, technologically, and economically.

Serbian and Croatian state cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, specifically the interplay between national party politics and negotiations for potential entry into the European Union.

My life for a man who can just answer the goddamn question.

Took my first aerial class tonight and it was quite fun. And also my armpits hurt.

I’m not going to implore you, but I forgot I had this and it is still funny and I wouldn’t have gotten that laugh if I hadn’t randomly scrolled my phone… so do with that what you will…

My only legit April Fool’s experience was in 5th grade when we conspired with our teacher’s boyfriend to propose to her with a ring pop in our class. We felt like gods. Also they got actually engaged like 2 weeks later, so it wasn’t cruel (not that our feral 10yo selves cared).

everyone gets to make mistakes and make amends and be forgiven but not everyone gets to then be in positions of leadership and people who genuinely have repented after significant wrongdoing understand why they should be excluded from power

In honor of pi day today, I will also be endlessly irrational until further notice. Just a big fyi.

In a dream last night, I was at a restaurant at a fancy English manor house situation and someone at my table ordered a room temperature martini. I’m still annoyed at that figment of my imagination.

This week’s Shrinking introduced a character called Tuppence. And she’s an accountant. And I am enjoying that delightful fact more than it merits.

I have been over-perceived this week. If everyone could stop being aware of my existence (just for a little while), that would be great.

A thing about me is sometimes I have to think about doing handstands on the uneven bars to remember which is horizontal and which is vertical. It’s the first context in which I learned those terms, so it’s the one I instinctively go back to when my brain gets slow or overwhelmed.

This is a lovely and telling tribute. AND The way I wish more men (true for everyone but…) could digest that genius doesn’t = “get to be an asshole.” And the way I wish more men publicly praised women for not diminishing or apologizing for their genius as well as for their kindness.

Sometimes the heart knows what it’s going to need tomorrow… which is to say yesterday was the perfect day to have caved and bought a giant bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs.

The state can fund concentration camps and all of your media, but it’s communism if you want some help with your healthcare.

A bit of a fudge because it’s about 50/50 Spanish and English but a truly underrated romcom with one of my favorite “what love means to me” speeches (and it’s not between the main characters!).

How to Get To Heaven From Belfast = if the Derry Girls grew up to be the Bad Sisters. Not as iconic as Derry Girls but I’m having a fun time.

Don’t make a big deal of kink or “unusual sexual needs” and then not show it effectively worked out on the page (and the world’s lightest bondage doesn’t count). Use it to truly grow the relationship / character development or don’t make it A Thing.