I was driving back from my trail run on my day off in my hydrid car, with Calexico blasting on the stereo and the windows slightly open (so as not to disturb the neighbourhood). Then it dawned on me that oh no, I am a fucking stereotype (of my age and my environment).

ok Orphan Black is very good thriller

had a really tough week at work, mentally, physically and eMoTIonNAlly. the only thing to do now is binge watch Orphan Black 🍿

guess who did that... and then worked non-stop until 11pm? A very normal person who definitely has a very normal work life.

do i say "screw it" to the 6:30am meeting tomorrow? i do!

1,000 stairs today (2,000 if we count the down steps). I'll take this win.

what happened here?

In case anyone wants to come out, I have _just_ the setting.

My photo, but not my dahlias. Next year! ...maybe. This colour is poetry!

Orphan Black is pretty good so far.

words are hard ok? (tbf, if I made a typo but realized it's too much effort to fix, I'd do the same - "meh, they'll figure it out" *shrug*)

my gen X boss has fully embraced the midwestern dad aesthetic. which also includes calling me "ma'am".

oh boy. came out of my selfl-exile from sm* and... what the hell happened in the last few weeks???

my god, what do people get from it?Constantly blasting news of doom, disasters and despair.Are you changing anything? im fucking mad because even w/ the amount of filtering I do, I still had to see news I dont want to see. Fuck off with your ragebait on tragedies involving kids, just fuck right off

heaven from hell, blue skies from pain

Sometimes I just want to complain that I'm so very tired. I'm so very tired. There.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you? Ballard. Oh yes Detective Ballard can rescue me any time she wants.

Substack... is a strange place. I kind of want to support a few writers I like with some small amount of money, but I also don't like how obsessed with monetization that platform is.

lol this truck was tailing me for a good 15 minutes on the highway. made me chuckle but also, get off my bumper you ice cream maniac!

my god, the Cascades above the sunset! takes my breath away every single time

NYC has redeemed itself with lovely friends and good conversations.

is this what getting older is like? i can't see most shit unless it's 2 font size bigger. (i also haven't updated my glass prescription in like 3 years so there's that)

Homeland, True Detective, Line of Duty, Snowpiercer

as someone who prefers bullet-point writing at work, i fucking hate this new phenomenon of previously inarticulate people suddenly produce very wordy, elaborate paragraphs (with emdashes!), then when I read it there's an AI prompt asking if I want a summary.

yes i was in midtown. yes i am ok. no i will not readily come here again next time.

I've discovered the key to enjoy NYC: noise cancelling headphones (or Yann Tiersen on low volume)!!! total game changer.

flying to where it's hot and muggy because i'm just that good at picking a time to travel

as far as American procedurals go,Ballard is pretty good.And Maggie Q is great as a shunned detective with trauma (are they ever without ha) And yes, its very obvious that the casting was done with diversity in mind.Main character is a WOC, her sidekicks are a black woman and a gay guy.But so what?

as a cyclist, nothing's scarier to me than a long block of parked cars. each car is a potential careless driver who might door me to my death (or at least a broken arm like my friend's) on a related note: i discovered a new trail today. yay new trail! yay hills! but oh no, the way back! uphill!

woke up with a headache and a feeling of dehydration and got confused for a minute as to why. it's been so long since i had a hangover.

worst idea ever: listening to a poetry podcast while driving on the highway. suddenly it hits something deeply personal and then everything gets really blurry but you have to hold the wheel at 100 km/h ☠️

rewatching two sexy people standing near each other (and sometimes eating noodles) tonight

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fuck insomnia and 10-meeting work day. fuck them so much.

There are young people (under 30) at my work who write with double spaces. Like this. 🤯

I think people on this site should post more about the things they enjoy and less about stuff that infuriates them. You're really not changing anything by posting them. Just my opinion. (But it's very correct!) Here, something I enjoy: the first flowers on my fuschia this year.

missed opportunity by Bluesky. They should've called it... 🥁...Hot Flashes. Know your audience, Bluesky!

maybe it's just that time of month but seeing a dad being his blind daughter's guide and patiently leading her on stage through the steps of a ceremony, his huge body standing out among the tiny kids made me tear up.

ahhh i can't get over how pretty the buttercups are

a fellow nerd sent me down the memory lane of 2000s-era indie music so I've been listening to Arcade Fire and Wolf Parade like a hipster in skinny jeans and a t-shirt 2 sizes too small with a tote bag. I'd do a bar crawl through the scene again if the bars hadn't all gone bankrupt and closed.

the desire to get a 🐱 is growing stronger

did i say salted lime lager is very good? salted lime lager is very good.

the chestnut is flowering. bees are particularly happy about this development. (despite the leaf shape, it's not what you think lol)

aye aye Mr. Vonnegut

text from a friend who's currently doing a road trip through a very scenic part of the country: "not to be a cliche or whatever but i just found the best donut shop 🍩" (she's a cop 😆)

the race is on, whoever just requested the book i'd borrowed from the library (and thus made me return it without any chance of renewal). each of us gets 3 weeks, whoever finishes "the gold finch" first wins.

i'm sorry, body, i thought i was still young and invincible

these two are my top (hehe) favourite characters to write

help i need a new character to obsess over. a new lucy tara, or maggie sawyer, or alex danvers, or lauren bloom, or heck even jane doe (blindspot). oooh maybe i'll finally finish blindspot

crunch time of the good kind (2x starting this week)