Hello friends near and far 💜 I've reached the end of my savings, frustratingly, just as we've solved the root mystery of my illness (it's Lyme) and are seeing continued success with treatment. I'm asking for your help in bridging the gap between now and when I can hopefully work full-time again.

The other design I did for Artiss’ Pride collection 🏳️‍🌈

Cruising or Cod my body is keeping the score

Went to a stationery shop and compared my love and trip travelers notebook (right) with the kid on the sales floor (left). Talked ink and md paper shop. Lovely to feel smart briefly.

Prairie coreopsis going to town!

I can directly measure how much AI is being used in code by how many students are suddenly using lambdas, esp in places where it just doesn't make sense.

Back teaching with the @carpentries.carpentries.org for the first time in a long time! Love getting back to adult professional learners after 5 years of undergrad. This is with field researchers, so I wore my butterfly skirt, which is in great company today. Everyone has their favorite critter out!

I went to brush my teeth and my kid put on 15 shirts. Which took apparently 20 minutes to take off.

It isn’t a loophole. It is an academic fistula.

Currently testing the limits on what leather conditioner can do for this Traveler’s Notebook I adopted for a fair price on Mercari. These patches are like super glued on.

Someone let me fight a goose. Please. I need this. Every quarter this divorce goes on I get to fight a goose.

Helped the kiddo fill the hydraulics in this contraption with neon fountain pen ink.

Advantage of a floofy tule skirt on a rainy day: you can get inside and shake off like a wet dog.

Fuck it I’m flushing this pen out. Let’s just not speak of the 3ml of ink that just dripped out of it.

Doing great. Why do I do this. Why do I like this. Fountain pens are a wild ride. (I think I have this fixed)

Armed up to become an even bigger jerk about seeing educational myths still being used.

Of course I insisted of using the leaking fountain pen today. Of course it had red ink in it. And then I sided maybe I should stop before my lunch with a colleague and it looked like I punched someone through the heart.

Leather conditioning day!

I appreciate how involved kid is about packing his own lunch, but I wasn’t expecting to negotiate about quarts of jello and cook a frozen pizza at 8am.

Kiddo sniffed in the car and said “this is some 2024 air” and I think he’s pregaming the slang five years from now

Finished reading Alchemised. Interesting. Dark. Very dark. The content warnings a) should have been at the beginning (matters when audiobook) and b) muuuuuch clearer about what was explicit that happened on the page. Poorly done. Enjoyable is a difficult word for this book but I’m glad I read it.

List two hours fighting with latex to get a pdf to export. Then the pdf was malformed. Coolcooolcool. Love this.

Kiddo is trying to out stubborn me. Sweet innocent bay has no idea who he is dealing with here.

Catching up on the 5 year diary. I review my daily journal for little entries. Hard to be editorial when I sort of expect my kid might read it at some point when they’re older. But a fun process.

Helping out fountain pen newbies and pulled out some of my Kakunos. Most of these are dedicated to specific asshole inks.

TACO. BELL. SKIRT. STAY TUNED

Please appreciate how well this ink matches the archer and olive rose notebook.

I shall reward myself for cooking by cooking up some fountain pen ink after.

Frogged a half finished hat. Prepping to frog a completed hats. Guess I just don’t have a good head.

Quick flip through my teaching content journal prepped for 2026. If only it could give me the bravery to write a teaching statement.

The meditative practice of trading stickers with people and assembling pages of these weird babies.

Happy 2026. Still not divorced. 3.5 years. This legal baby is ready for preschool.

Kid and I are deeply over each other and ready for school to start back tomorrow. He would never admit to it, of course. Also the hat I just finished knitting is too big and I’ll need to frog it. Boooo

I love a pattern that lets me just keep going until I run out.

New semester hype

More knitting. Busted out some yarn I spun two years ago to work on a cowl.

Got some yarn for Christmas! Haven’t kitten in a year and I’ve been itching to. Knitted a little too close to the yarn chicken sun and had to tie on scraps to bind off at the end. But I’ve needed new mittens!

Kiddo decided to decorate for Christmas. He set up and decorated the tree by himself.

Concerning sounds from the kid in the kitchen are my only inspiration for getting out of bed.

Got dumped by my house cleaner for being a landlord and they jar a zero tolerance policy about working for landlords. Which I respect and was open about it. But frustrating because I never intended to be one and the $700 a year profit I make is all spent in mutual aid stuff.

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Made a clear tip in to highlight the double sided ephemera I love.

Setting up my content notebook in bed with my boot friend.

One of my main power tool batteries died. Meaning my ability to slow blow the whole block is limited. Sad day. But time to shop sales for a new one.

Overengineered course planning.

Sounds like the dumpsters are humping outside my office right now. Great times for creative work.

Are there kids who don’t spent 45 min crying and arguing before doing homework?

If you want forgiveness, perhaps stop adding to the landfill of bullshit first.

32 oz of coffee and allergy meds are fighting. Antidepressant in the background taking bets with dopamine about the winner.

WHAT. itertools.chain() for proper 1d array flattening. How. Did. I. Not. Know.