Real talk: someone needs to invent a brace that's like a armored chest plate--sthg that keeps your clavicles & sternum immobile--because I am really sick of feeling my clavicle hit my phrenic nerve & my ribs separate from my sternum. If you need me tonight, just pass the tequila.

More experiments into fancy af grilled cheese: sourdough, raspberries, truffle goat cheese, drizzled with agave nectar. *chef's kiss*

Spoiler free review of the new Frankenstein movie: I really liked it. It's more an interpretation than an adaptation, with del Toro shifting around or changing a fair number of the larger details, while keeping many of the smaller ones and most of the plot.

New recipe: "Alone" Dip chopped onion crushed garlic dill weed chopped baby dill pickles chopped bread and butter pickles chopped dill pickle slices mayo sour cream parmesan All ingredients to taste; whatever ratio makes sense in your mind Taste: 💯 Breath after eating: -∞

This is a REALLY great one!! Can't wait to share it with you.

Dear god save me from the neighbors where you're like "is this an emergency or is someone just being overdramatic..." Like, you don't want to get that one wrong, and yet...

Finals week! Finals Week! FINALS WEEK!! #GBBO

It’s been one week…

Some days life is just exquisitely beautiful. Sitting in my comfy office, on a gorgeous campus, doing some easy but necessary work, meeting a colleague for lunch at a fabulous local restaurant. That's my Friday. Bliss. 10 years ago Rebecca could never imagine this.

New boots!

I love many things about my job, but truly one of the best is the fact that I can ask questions of people who know things, and they're promptly helpful. Seriously something that I value is "oh, of course, let me show you how you do that!"

Got an email for an "early bird Black Friday" sale, today. IT IS NOVEMBER-FREAKING-SEVENTH, Y'ALL.

I do not feel that today was my best teaching day. However, it was also far from my worst, so we're going to put a check in the W column and move on.

tfw you know enough about anatomy to really dig down and pinpoint the exact body part that's bothering you, like "ah, yes, the iliofemoral ligament, that little bastard..."

Days like today, moving to Virginia feels like it was a great choice.* Perfect weather,** and I love my very convenient neighborhood. Just a really good day in RVA all around. *Not a choice; I moved for a job. **All 4 seasons in one day, but not going below freezing/above 72.

I want to dropkick people who make/post "concept trailer" videos into a live volcano. Stop faking promotional materials for things people want to go see, you dicks.

The most fun brand of reddit takedown is when 25 or older, M, posts asking how he can get his gf, 19 or younger, F, to stop [behavior] and the comment section is SO OVERWHELMINGLY "don't date teenagers you creep" that he deletes his account. We love to see it.

Proudly cast my vote this morning for Abigail Spanberger, Virginia's first female governor, and her Lt. Gov. Gahzala Hashmi! Time for a change in this state!

Wait, wait, wait, wait. "Sorry to this man" was about DICK CHENEY??? Holy fuck. This is brand new information.

Pleased to announce that I will be presenting a paper titled "Skeletons, Corsets, and the Shoes of the Aristocracy: When the Osteological Paradox Meets the Museum Paradox" at the 2026 American Association of Biological Anthropologists' conference in March!

Who else up piggybacking off their insomnia to be at their polling precinct as soon as they open??

Facial scar, day four, status: accidentally rubbing my eyes and disturbing the stitches because it doesn't hurt, which, good, but still--stop *smack* contaminating *smack* the *smack* wound *smack* site.

Fingers crossed for jury nullification* on sandwich guy. *Where the jury agrees that it's illegal, and he did it, but in this case it's way too fucking funny to penalize him for it.

Ahhhhh, yes. Frankenstein. That inspired cautionary tale about what happens when a bright but arrogant student completely ignores the syllabus and just does their own thing, as completely befits the season of "2/3 through the semester and people are panicking."

Semifinals? Semifinals! A very divisive Semifinals week! #GBBO

View from the 12th floor of the VCU medical building:

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

In this our final year of the first quarter of the 21st century, WHY are all zoom participants not muting themselves on entry.

I love this ridiculous city…

Happy Halloween!!

Based on irl and online interactions it's become very clear that in public perception there's 'disabled' and ✨disabled✨ people, and if you feel those sparkles you need to back the fuck up and realize who you are talking to, because behind that we are not fucking okay, thx.

Also, if your partner speaks ill of SNAP recipients, LEAVE, LEAVE NOW, BABY WHAT IS YOU DOING???

Girlfriends don’t EVER fucking say you’re not that hungry on a date who’s about to cheap out on the food. Do not EVER settle for a guy who won’t make sure you’re taken care of.

Why does my dryer play the opening notes of Fur Elise when it's turned off? Like, who decided that was going to be a thing?

@alixeharrow.bsky.social's new book, The Everlasting, is now out in all stores--I had a chance to read it pre-release (by being in the right place at the right time) and YOU NEED THIS BOOK, GO BUY IT!!!

Real thing I said in class today: "...I mean, who made Kant the authority on that??"

I'm not going to split ticket or anything (ever, but especially not this year), but someone needs to give our Lt. Gov. candidate some vocal training. She sounds so much like she's been autotuned to sound like a robot that it's quite off-putting.

I am happy to report that on my two intro assignments that seem to invite the most cheating, it seems I've circumvented that impulse by saying "here are common ways people cheat; don't do that."

Now that The Week Of All The Things is over, and I've recorded the weekly video for my intro class, I am FREE to catch up on #GBBO, read a novel in bed, and turn my brain off for today.

f one thing is able to be relied on, it's me smacking the "purchase" button whenever NEONI puts out new music, particularly just before Halloween: youtu.be/md5PRp9KoLA?...

Come one, come all, to MABIG 2025, where I will be giving a talk tomorrow on why the movie "Companion" is a good (and bioanthropologically interesting) robot sex movie!

Do I have any neurologists/audiologists in my friend circle? Would bone conduction headphones be more efficient, or less so, for someone with SSCD?

Fuck it, just going to start tomorrow's presentation with a slide that says "THIS MOVIE IS ABOUT ROBOT SEX."

Microsoft updates every other damned day; why does it seem that haven't I gotten any new ppt templates since the late '00s??

This may be the first tattoo EVER that I've had go into the itchy phase after only 24 hours, even before the bruising calms down, but it is *very* fine line.

Someone on my hall is talking to themself, and all I can hear are the sibilants, and I have SUCH AN URGE to get up and close SOMEONE ELSE'S door, y'all have no idea...

You're either having a great week or a really bad one when you add a Taylor Swift song to an existing playlist. In my case, it was "This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things," from Reputation, so...yeah.

This tattoo is so special to me! It’s a representation of the first artifact I ever wrote about for publication, and Terry at SinnerG did excellent work.

Tattoo day!!!