A decade ago, I basically dropped off the Internet other than what was needed for wedding planning. I went to bed very late in the night crying bc I'd lost two people I should have known but never had the chance to meet to known or presumed homophobic violence outside gay bars.

Now that I've made a fool of myself mistaking Yep for Yolen. Devil's Arithmetic was the Holocaust book technically no one made me read but if I hadn't already on my own before I hit Night as an assignment in 8th grade I don't think I would have gotten as much from it.

It's almost 90° degrees. The AC meters are officially not running so the system is definitely down. We are barely keeping inside temps even with outside. I just had to check The Weather Channel's temp map to make sure I was in the same reality as the It's Nice In MA chorus in World Cup threads.

So let me get this straight. No longer recognized by the US military: faiths followed by multiple founding fathers. Recognized by the US military: a group that believes any military service incl failure to evade a draft by running or acceptance of jail time means self-removal from the religion.

I really want to have WORDS with my doctor's office about how much they've shifted to online. The DO YOU FEEL SAFE AT HOME questionnaire? App. At least when County Health kept me from reporting abuse in TN, a staffer technically could have seen someone was reading my answers as I filled it out.

My dear Tapewood, Be sure to direct your patient to personally slash funding for cattle disease monitoring programs. It will make his inevitable surprise at unexpected cattle epidemics and the resulting beef shortages ever so much more delectable. Your affectionate Uncle, SCREWWORM

Reminder: in the religious group he grew up in, 'just keep trusting it'll be okay even if you don't see how', is just about as dire a statement as they're really allowed to say as an assessment of reality. Positive Thinking doesn't allow you to say things are not going to be okay.

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

He insisted on following Elements Of Style to the every single letter, whole defining 'writer' as requiring selection for publication by non-vanity editorial staff. Meaning a rubric for the entire dept that was half how to be graded down for having style or using much of the grammar curriculum.

Currently wondering how many New England Episcopalian priests are wondering if it's too late to switch to Eucharistic Prayer C in thanks the near-miss missed. (If that thing that exploded over the bay had come down not that long later? A reasonably major city would have taken a near-direct hit.)

Good news, Boston friends! Today we might have successfully dodged a meteor strike!

Apparently I do like at least some romance tropes, they just have to be the right romance tropes. The final 3.5 books of a 4 book series in under 24 hours Thursday. I haven't had my reading stamina back since the pandemic started and all the marathons I've managed were rereads or near-rereads.

My one week review of the replacement for the Fitbit App: We bought premium when I was diagnosed with asthma because the overnight SpO2 numbers seemed like a good thing to have. Even without the AI, the new thing is worse than any third-party watch + app combo I've ever dealt with. Incl $10 ones.

Gotta get rid of profit the reverse of how you make profit. Foundation chartered officially for national historical preservation. Actual purpose is to fund at least quarterly application of ludicrously patterned boxers to all appropriately sized historical statues legally reachable at midnight.

Heat in the UK doesn't hit different. Humidity isn't exclusive to the UK nor are stone buildings (I live in one). The reason we get their complaints every summer is both because they refuse to invest in A/C including in public spaces & the heat waves come on fast allowing no acclimation /1

Currently dealing with the annual day when my entire country turns into that volunteer at the traveling Memorial Wall who accidentally congratulated my grandmother on losing two brothers bc we didn't have relatives on the wall. (Agent Orange. Same progression on a time delay at the end of denial.)

If you’re a writer, write “I waited” without saying it. If someone has a class one semester when they usually would not, it's on them to warn whoever would normally meet them for breakfast. Granted, it was also on me to process he was not coming or at the very least ask why... before midterms.

The Sea In Summer which I met as Drowning Towers, George Turner A Swiftly Tilting Planet, L'Engle Still River, Hal Clement (out of print and you can't buy the ebook in the US)

First hand-down: Spouse's Wii. First of my own from box: Switch. (Spouse wasn't getting any time with his.) (Dad's philosophy was We Already Own A Computer, so the first gaming device I had access to was a Commodore 64. My first typed word was DONKEY, which predated my first written word.)

Trying to talk myself into picking a book up that I noped out on weeks ago. I was reading it a chapter a night, and then I saw it was going from slow Rivals To Lovers to The Society Pages Announce A Non-Existent Engagement Just Before The Season and I think I only get through this in one sitting.

I'm currently replaying BotW (TotK to follow) a few hours a night so Spouse can watch me this time. In winter 2017 when he introduced me to Zelda I needed his help with early Twilight Princess bosses, and now I'm showing off going to Zora's Domain by river just bc Sidon said a Hylian couldn't.

I know the law

Medication blister packets. All of the meds I am currently on that use them are for *migraines*. We STILL haven't found the Zofran I accidentally catapulted toward the dresser when the tension released JUST ENOUGH getting it out that one time. FIVE YEARS AGO.

Fourth Grade: Couldn't watch Looney Tunes, might make me violent. Could watch F-Troop the next hour on the same channel. Couldn't get parental help re being bullied at school by teacher and all peers, which was the actual thing making me act out and warping my concept of social behavior norms.

This is the 18th Easter since I walked out of the SBC. ON EASTER. And it was an early Easter that year so YES THERE ARE ADULTS BORN AFTER I LEFT THE SBC AND YES I FEEL OLD.

Lessons learned today: Pay attention to the calendar and page count when you decide to read something in one huge cover to cover chunk. Good Friday through today I read "When Did We See You Naked? Jesus As A Victim Of Sexual Violence", an essay collection edited by Reaves, Tombs, and Figueroa.

On this liturgical date in 2013, I started worshipping with the Episcopalians. Apparently this is long enough to start miscounting when each milestone was. The second of three times so far that I've left a church between Good Friday and Easter, and the most positive of the three.

There's a No Kings event a five minute safe walk from the elections office where I used to early vote via blank state/local primary ballots just so no one could sneak a ballot initiative past us in an odd-year primary because no Dems ever ran. I... I just... (So looking for photos Sunday.)

A Night To Remember, about the Titanic sinking. At 11. The gifted program kids got pulled out of standard track reading. Instead of Phantom Tollbooth (so I still haven't read Spouse's middle reader favorite) or How To Be Perfect Person, we had to read about the kids our age who drowned in Steerage.

This is why American-style detailed food labeling is important. I missed the cheese I'm sensitive to on a label and we ate it last night. (Can confirm I'm still sensitive to it without a psychological component.) We checked after. It's not in what our local grocery has. But this came from Aldi.

Just found out part of the original high school building where a relative was on the anti-arson patrol during desegregation has survived the latest round of campus construction and renovations. (The rest has been a Ship Of Theseus logic-problem since I went to district events there 25 years ago.)

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. 20th Cent Through Movies & TV Intro To Rhetoric (during the Iraq War ramp-up) Advanced Latin, Theater Developmental Psych Physics For Non-Majors

Once again proving that I shouldn't have access to my high school schedule and a calculator by discovering that 996 schedules are a full time job *less* than my high school expected me to devote to school-related activities Fall 2001 when the world was falling apart and I had application essays.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

Speaking as someone who spent at least 6 months of her first year attending an Episcopal parish, at the time the only openly gay-accepting group I knew of in an hour's drive, sitting in That One Pew where you can't hide if someone bursts in but you might be able to yell: LIGHTWEIGHTS.

Another swimming pool survivor, luckily was facing the right way when I tripped and managed to touch bottom just before things went from serious to SERIOUS. (Lifeguards, do not the hell call Adult Swim and then blame a traumatized kid if they didn't make it all the way out before you turned away.)

As someone who grew up just far enough outside ATL we made jokes about the city at school and then found out there were people afraid to come into my parents' hometown of under 75k total in and out of city limits SOLELY because it's legally a city and cities are dangerous, NYC *matters* to the rest.

Here's hoping?

I finally got into High Rank and Master Rank in Monster Hunter Rise, playing offline. I don't play many real-time games because *I don't have the reaction time*. So I rely on pattern prediction even more than the game anticipates. Also motion sickness means I'm a *mostly grounded* glaive player.

I want to yell at my childhood church right now, and not for the usual reasons. So. You make an Only CCM music policy for church retreats that basically bans all instrumental. You know some households in the church allow clean secular music alongside CCM and you do not preach against this.

I really don't think some places understand how durable and lasting some of the various current boycotts are going to be. Due to state and federal laws, I have to be in a building with a Target next week. I dreamed yesterday about being in there and shamed myself about being there the whole time.

Okay, I understand generally why matches with Oscar in Duolingo's chess course can't count as "perfect matches" for quests. But I just pulled off classic 4 Move Mate on Oscar at the end of Section 3 Unit 1, and I still don't get credit toward a Perfect Lessons friend quest? Nothing?

Also by local cultures. I went in one day from believing I had been sexually assaulted ONCE to knowing the 'physical sexual harassment' school admin stopped stopping on 12 Sept 2001 fell under the lowest degree in our state laws. Modern social media? I'd have known by that Christmas, not near 30.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (No gifs of Married To The Mob, Cookie's Fortune gets me fortune cookies, to the childhood with Bluth we go.)

@profanity.accountant So exactly how much has actually managed to slip past the residual filters from growing up Southern Baptist, anyway?

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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Great Blue Heron Timber Rattler, black phase Pronghorn White-Tailed Deer (in 3 states) Bald Eagle

Discourse commence. 📕

One thing not mentioned re urban turkeys (but otherwise I love this) is that what turkeys really like is nice roosting trees near open grass. Seen them there in Appalachia, seen them there in Metro Boston bc oh hey these little historical parks and cemeteries are open grass with nice roosting trees!