perch time with olive and willow

if you aren't part of the bubble solution, you're part of the bubble problem

I wasn't loving how the tulips turned out, so I tried something new.

You always expect the next generation to surpass you, but you never expect it so young (bud named his sister's turtle toy Torteenis)

??? Because it can't casually wipe down the stove after dinner. It's got no forearms!

Repost for the morning crowd. ✌️We can have a little monster fiction as a treat. (435 words)

Wrote some flash fiction if anyone wants to read. 🫣 tinyurl.com/flashfichetr...

you gotta hit the optometrist *before* the post office so you can wow em with these bad boys

Settle down, guys. 80% chance it's Heidi Klum.

the old understanding of truth, which was the style at the time

we did it, folks

up late making nanaimo bars and I'm pretty sure it's @pseudospectre.bsky.social's fault

What if you could save the world, BUT you'd have to come up with an unrealistic thought experiment that elides many relevant concerns. Would you do it?

I look for philosophy on those charts comparing majors the way I look for my face in a group photo. It's nice to look good, but I'm not sure there's much there beyond that.

in finals week you can do a minimally adequate job as a treat

off-camera at the faculty meeting so I can do my behaviors

When you have a PhD, every appointment's a doctor's appointment.

I just want you guys to know that when I went to my doctor's appointment I got a good grade in patient, a thing it is both reasonable to want and possible to achieve

👋 clocking in for my g.e. moore shift

wrote a thing—it's fun you should read it

suddenly I'm "not allowed" to pick our book club book

I promise I'm only trying to make this like 80% of my personality, but you guys: today I uncovered the serial number, which confirmed that this is an old series press. It was manufactured in *1906*.

shout-out to all the moms, worldwide

Y’all ever think about how much Wittgenstein would have LOVED the phrase “tag, you’re it!”

It's fine.

ugh no please let me live

now that I absolutely cannot log onto canvas I kind of want to??

As someone who teaches fully asynchronous online classes, uhhhhhhhhhhh

Canvas being hacked is actually a really big deal in my community* * people who would watch a limited series campus drama about that

Next time can someone please remind me not to do so many stripes? "Please, Kelly," you'll say. "You have a family."

in some sort of innovative torture device, our neighbor's trampoline has been covered in Megablocks

Update: it moves. 😭 In just a few days, I should have an antique press to restore!

You might think my cat falling in the toilet today would keep me from kissing her a bunch. Wrong-o!

My friends, today I am going to look at a Chandler & Price vintage letterpress because someone who lives TWO miles from me wants it out of her garage (free - you haul) and I am about to lose my mind.

“No rapping tonight.” Why? “You rap about Iris Murdoch every time. It’s embarrassing.” Ok [after one beer] Uh oh y’all it’s getting real up in the hood. All my homies out reading the-

oh so it's a *recession* recession

when you like a post but don't think of your reply til later call that bit d'escalier

Bought a beautiful poster of a forest print at a printmaking festival today! 🎨Mimi Williams Printmaker

Y'all's spouse ever try to gaslight you into thinking you're beautiful?

(Ripping open my shirt to reveal a t-shirt that says "il n'y a pas d'hors texte") welcome to introduction to literary theory

You can always get a little cross-breeze going. It's always correct.

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You guys. I finished my first two-color print.

The trees are blooming. The sun is out. I just walked three times around a little lake with my mom and sister. It's way too nice of a day to be fulfilling my contractual obligations to my employer. So, yes, I'm on the hellsite.

Double scoop!

Today's grading assistant. Homegirl can have a lil FERPA violation as a treat.

oh just watching this a normal amount of times hbu youtu.be/EWeWBnxH6hg?...

I genuinely love that a common way to begin formal correspondence is "Dear" so-and-so. We've never spoken before, but let me start by saying: you're precious to me. You are near to my heart.

Now if the proposal was a white house ball *pit*... let's just say I'm listening