Unexpected heartwarming moment of the day: chatting with the Chewy customer service rep about Will and Moira and how they'll be reunited tomorrow after Moira's second round of giardia isolation. ❤️ That was sweet and unexpected - I was just hoping to get my lost Fortiflora order reshipped!

Oof. It's been a rough week. Dealing with round 2 of giardia treatment for Moira, and almost done with it - I'm really, *really* hoping this round is the last. I am so done with deep cleaning and doing laundry every day.

Sharing this here to help boost the signal: my friend Sage's cat Sushi is dealing with some scary medical issues. They could use some help with medical bills, especially since Sushi's back at the vet with a fever and possibly paralyzed back legs. Every little bit helps. gofund.me/4562265e8

Welp, it's the first day of fall, and it's a rainy day to boot - time to bust out the Trip Hop playlist on Spotify! Not entirely sure when my brain decided fall = trip hop season, but it's been like that for a while now. Listen with me if you want: open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

This is the first of four weeks in a row where I'm teaching at least two workshops a week for work - I'm actually excited about it, especially since it's all Photoshop and Illustrator sessions. 🎉

In today's instance of "I was feeling nostalgic for this thing but now it's gone": There's a word game I liked to play on my phone, Word Hero - I can't remember when it first came out, but I remember playing it on my first "Android" tablet, an HP TouchPad that I modded to run Android. 1/

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This week has been exhausting, between work stuff and life stuff and the world in general. Once I'm done with work today, I'm gonna go burrow somewhere cozy with the cats and just exist for a bit, maybe reread some more of @scalzi.com's Old Man's War in preparation for the new book coming out...

My advice to people, as it has been since the USENET days, is simply this: Everything that can be made public on the Internet one day will be made public. Say what you want and what you feel is necessary, and remember it will be found.

A dream of the fields study

Just got home. I figure some of you might need a timeline cleanse at the moment.

Ugh. Can we reboot the world or something?

Today's weather feels like fall, and it's got me feeling nostalgic - weirdly enough, for an internet radio station I used to listen to while studying back when I was at SUNY Potsdam. I'm pretty sure it was called Jazz Excursions, and I think I found the website I used to listen to it on... 1/

Finally posting some more pictures of the kitties over on their Bluesky account. 😻

... yes I came out of Bluesky hibernation to comment on a post about a webcomic I love nothing else to see here except maybe this blep from Moira

Been spending lots of time with these cute goobers this week. They've settled in here pretty quickly, and it's so fun learning more about their individual kitty personalities.

Went to the animal shelter today thinking that Lucas and I would look at cats, though we weren't entirely planning on bringing any home... but then I fell in love with these two babies at the shelter, and now I have two cats again! Meet Moira (the black cat) and Will (the tabby cat)!

Found out that our local animal shelter is in crisis because they've got too many animals and people keep bringing in more. ... welp, guess I'm going to be visiting the shelter and looking at cats later this week, and hopefully lessening the overpopulation problem at the shelter in the process

It's kinda hard to be on Bluesky right now, especially since I used to post a lot over on Hannah's account when she was feeling better. I'm hanging in there, though. It's hard, but I'm hanging in there. 🫂

Yesterday was one of the hardest days of my life. I had to say goodbye to Hannah. To make a very long story short: she had an autoimmune condition that caused her body to attack her red blood cells, and even with treatment we didn't know what her quality of life would be like. 1/

Just finished scanning a pile of old negatives my sister and I found while we were digging through stuff at our mom's house this past weekend. Going to share some of my favorite old photos over the next few days, but first, a shout-out to the little scanner that made it all possible.

Still hanging in there. Trying to make it to the end of the week - on Saturday I fly out to visit my sister in northern NY, and while part of the visit is gonna be rough (cleaning out Mom's house), it'll be good to get some quality time with my sister.

This week has been super weird, energy-level wise. Monday I felt normal. Tuesday? SUPER energetic. Yesterday, all I wanted to do was take a nap. Today? Who the hell even knows. Ugh. Can't wait until I can get my brain back in working order.

For Murderbot Eve/Day (depending on when you watch it) I wanted to post a few more photos. #murderbot

... okay, life can stop being ridiculous anytime now (Woke up next to a puddle of cat pee because with a cone on, Hannah can't sense where she is well, and therefore refused to leave the bed last night. Even though she needed to pee. Oh, kitten. I just want your claw bed infection to go away)

uuugh. Trying to focus at work after a week off that ended with a LARP is hard.

I'm still here, sort of - just burnt the heck out from a rough month or so off one of my meds - specifically the one that helps me actually function like a human being and not some sort of distracted half-feral chaos gremlin. 😅

Just got back from a 4-day conference in Denver - and before the conference I had to medicate Hannah for a claw bed infection. Two weeks of pills. It was rough. She hated it. 🥺 Poor girl is hiding from me - I bet she thinks I'm going to try to give her a pill. 😭

Oof. Reading through entries I originally wrote on Livejournal when I was 19 years old is... painful. Good lord, I was a terrible human being.

It was the week before spring break at the university I work at - I'd just been pulled out of all my work obligations aside from one workshop because there were rumors we weren't going to be coming back to campus in person after spring break and I had to make training videos on using Zoom. 1/

Logged into my old Dreamwidth journal today - partly due to feeling some nostalgia for my Livejournal and early Dreamwidth days, and partly due to me wanting someplace to journal online that didn't involve creating a new account somewhere. Dang, there's a lot of history there.

Uuuuugh. I hate the week after Daylight Savings Time starts. My internal schedule is so messed up and I'm so dang tired.

Students should not be punished for protesting for what they believe in.

Starting off this week feeling moderately well-rested and with a cat snuggling in my lap, which are both good things. Here's hoping the rest of the week is calmer than last week.

After a lot of Babylon 5, some Stardew Valley, and a nap with this lovely snuggly lady, I feel vaguely human again.

Did my responsible adulting for the day - now it's time for copious amounts of Babylon 5.

Blerg. Really hope this weekend is restful, because I'm feeling a little wibbly at the moment and could use a couple of quiet days with my cat and some 90s sci-fi tv shows.

So much for getting any work done today... I've been sitting here in the waiting room at Lucas' eye surgeon's office for over an hour and a half now for an appointment that should have been finished maybe a half hour ago. They brought him back 20 minutes ago. Uuuuugh. I'm done with this week.

This week has been... rough. Pretty sure a course I designed completely broke the Mastery Paths feature in Canvas (learning management system, for the non ed-techy folks who follow me), and have spent most of the week troubleshooting issues related to that. It's been exhausting.

Count me in. (art by martharich63 on Instagram)

To the person driving a Tesla down the highway earlier with an "Anti-Elon Tesla Club" sticker on your car: Finally, a Tesla I don't get the urge to flip off when I see it. 😂

Another low energy day for me. Had the best Hannah nap ever - she slept on me and rested her head on my chest. She never sleeps on me like that. ❤️ I swear, she's the best cat ever.

I am absolutely loving the visuals so far! Love Tommy Arnold’s description of “a Coach bag crossed with an oven” re the branding 😂 A friend made this—they’re not on BlueSky so I said I’d share… ♥️

I wish more people understood this because it’s really fucking offensive to see people being gender-policed.

Had a weird dream about @hannah-bitbit.bsky.social last night - we were at my mother's house, of all places, and she kept trying to get out the front door to run around in the backyard. What was extra weird was my mom was being nice about everything. (Mom was NOT a cat person.) 1/

One of my favorite enjoyable distractions lately: watching Severance. It's unsettling (but in a good way, if that makes any sense?) and I'm really enjoying it. I binged the heck out of the first season and a half - now I'm patiently waiting for the rest of season 2 to come out...

Re-upping this: beware of disinformation accounts.

Took the day off today. I feel like I'm nearing burnout and need some time to rest and recharge. Spent the morning snuggling with my buddy @hannah-bitbit.bsky.social, and the afternoon listening to The Delta Flyers while crocheting. It's helped me feel a little better.

Morning - Rise up & resist! Today, let's focus on what we can control. Remembering that our purpose fuels our resilience & resistance. They want us to be fearful; worrying about the future. Bc in fear, we're not living in the moment. We're unable to help now when we're spiraling. #tgif

I just donated as well. Every little bit helps.