I roasted a pan of butternut squash, onions, and garlic for making soup, and my apartment smells *amazing*.

Ozyman, Ozyman- dias does what no mortal can and his works? are they there? no, but maybe still despair

Ok, but this line: “For Putin to be saying either, by the way, you ought to get the war ended. A war that should have taken one week is now in its, soon, fourth year, that’s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday." Um...

There's a whole narrative here

"If it fits, I sits" also applies to foam packing material. But with an additional desire to attack it while he's sitting in it, because he seems to hate foam.

I wasn't following the news during work yesterday, so when my coworker said "did you guys see about that heist at that museum in France," I didn't realize until after my shift that she meant *the goddamn Louvre*.

I've always felt bad for pigeons. We spend thousands of years breeding them to live comfortably in cities and around humans, and then as soon as we get new communication technologies, we decide that pigeons are disgusting vermin.

I had to work today, which was a drag, but at least I got paid at 165%.

Idea: order large round tablecloths to make into circle skirts

Columbus was so brutal in his treatment of the Native peoples he encountered that a significant amount of public opinion in *15th century Spain* was "ok, hold on now, that's a bit much." 15TH CENTURY CATHOLIC SPAIN.

Since my chest congestion still hasn't fully cleared up, I had an A2 at rehearsal on Wednesday. It wasn't a *good* A2, but it was there. For context, I can normally get down to an F3 comfortably, C3 (quietly) if I really try and the stars are properly aligned.

BTW, Sparta is my counter-example for accusations of "woke history." Because yes, loads of ancient cultures around the world did violence & slavery. It's just that some of them had enough redeeming qualities that we can just focus on the good parts. But Sparta *only* had the violence & slavery.

Me: ancient Sparta was the worst, I have some thoughts Coworker: tell me more My supervisor and I: [brief list] Coworker: ...oh wow. man, I'm glad those guys are dead

Those electrolyte packets are surprisingly good at turning a dry cough into a productive one, if that's something you happen to be looking for.

The upstairs neighbors are doing some project this weekend that's forced their dog to spend most of her time in the (spacious, fenced) backyard, and she's *not happy* about it. There's something happening! And she's not part of it! She has a lot of feelings about this.

"This concept or phrase is very important to me. Because it's so important, I've gotten it permanently inked on my body in a language and/or character set I'm not able to proofread."

I really enjoy the youtube sub-genre of "mental health professionals react to NBC's Hannibal," because every one of them is basically "I'm extremely qualified to say that everything happening here is definitely extremely fucked up. I can tell you that as a professional."

Youtube isn't loading any videos, what the hell? I accidentally did this required work training last week, so now I have 45 minutes that would be just right for learning some stuff about Jack the Ripper. But no, apparently not.

See, I *thought* the issue with Evensong would be the possible dehydration/energy issues from not eating very much this weekend. The *actual* issue was that my stomach is still recovering from a day of being constantly sick, & wasn't happy about the work required for breath support.

Ok, so. Spent Friday puking, etc. instead of eating. Yesterday, ate very little to avoid putting too much strain on my poor abused stomach. Today, Evensong featuring Mag & Nunc by Herbert Howells. Pray 4 me and my blood pressure, y'all.

Maybe tomorrow, I'll be feeling better enough that I'll be able to eat the 1/2 a pizza I still have in my fridge from Thursday. That would be nice.

I didn't eat anything all day yesterday because of the puking, and I'm trying to summon up the courage to have a bowl of oatmeal. I'm just scared it'll come back up!

I've been in bed literally all day, barring trips to the bathroom to be sick, and this causes Koshka confusion. He's used to getting fed when I get out of bed in the morning, so if I'm in bed, he's pretty sure I should be getting up and feeding him. Cat, doooooooooon't.

He thinks people won’t notice that all the dry wallers and tile guys have been arrested if they can’t even source their major remodel items.

I got a very plush, cozy new mattress pad, but I also got some sort of virus. So I would have felt like I was sleeping on a cloud, but unfortunately I kept waking up because of the full-body aches. 😢

When looking at people's reactions to historical medical beliefs & practices, I think it's clear that we tend to *vastly* underestimate how game-changing germ theory was. Oh, miasma theory is stupid? Explain the bubonic plague to me without any reference to germs, then. I'll wait.

i hate this administration so much what do you mean im going to have to defend james comey now

Now that's vintage!

I didn't get raptured, which means I get to keep trying to explain to people how to right-click a link in order to open it in a new tab. And also what tabs are.

I refuse to believe that anybody on the Right posting about Charlie Kirk's death actually cared about him at all, or believes that the loss of life is tragic on a purely human, emotional level. His only use for them in life was as a political mouthpiece, and his only use in death is as a martyr.

In fairness, 3 years is a long time

"Circle Jerk" here being a term meaning "valuing subject matter expertise more highly than industry disruption."

I'm trying to do more walking, but am constantly running into the problem where I'm "yeah, my knee just did a thing, not sure why" years old. Body! I am trying to take care of you! Stop being this way!

Ok, why is adblocker not working on youtube anymore? This is super annoying.

It's so funny when a woman acknowledges that she's perfectly happy being single, and immediately gets a bunch of responses (mostly from men) that basically boil down to "psshh, hope you enjoy being single (derogatory)." Like...yes, we've established that she's happy being single? That was the point?

Every couple of months, Koshka's sneezing builds up to actual boogers, which he then instantly eats. Cat, why so gross?

Just as a reminder, multiple people were also shot yesterday who had never expressed the view that the nation needs to just accept the reality of deaths from gun violence. Specifically, there were at least 3 school shooting victims, plus however many other people across the nation.

Out of respect for Charlie Kirk, I'm not giving in to virtue-signalling outrage in my posts. He wanted us to make peace with the inevitability of occasional gun crime in a nation with a robust 2nd Amendment, so we should honor his wishes by accepting his death as just one of those things.

Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

A reminder that "actually, so-called mild illnesses can have a devastating effect on the vulnerable" was the plot of an entire Agatha Christie novel.

My brother and SIL either don't know, or aren't revealing, the sex of their upcoming baby, so my brother's been defaulting to gender-neutral pronouns. He's accidentally made so many people think they're expecting twins. 😂

We're working on an Evensong for this fall that's new enough to actually have "God save the King" printed in. Crazy. I mean, we're obviously still singing "God save the State," but it's weird to see "the King" in printer's ink.

I'm sad about ThredUp using Amazon shipping.

lol, economists.

The other day, I saw an 11- or 12-year old child running down the street barefoot (with occasional pauses to do little ballet leaps), then putting up a sign on a corner utility pole advertising babysitting/petsitting services, and I had a brief moment of not knowing what decade it was. Glorious.

Got a package of broccoli slaw and mixed it with a light vinaigrette, and oh man, summer rolls are so easy to make now (crab meat, avocado, broccoli slaw).

My Very Sensible Decision, since it's 81% humid right now, is that I took the bus most of the way home, instead of walking all the way from the store with my shopping cart. The 10 minutes from the bus stop, with holding the cart back on the downhill, then being exhausted going back up, was enough.

My parents have been working on some family medical histories lately. Apparently, when he started showing symptoms of ALS, my great-grandpa invented various small physical therapy machines to help strengthen the affected areas of his body & retain what mobility he could. As one does.

Millennial midlife crisis fantasy: "I own my own home, and have the resources and leisure time to make it all cute and cozy so I don't have to make plans outside the home. My pantry is full of delightful preserves, and all of my clothes are comfortable." youtu.be/RLwjV5RCu7Q?...

Even when you're arguing with them! Even when you're judging them for really loving their tiny, tiny apartments & insane costs of living, you're like "...yeah, ok, I can admit that your Local Pride isn't entirely unfounded here. Still annoying, but FINE, I GUESS."