I try to keep my 4th of July grinchiness mostly to myself, but this whole semiquincentennial thing is making it difficult. (This post brought to you partly but by no means entirely by day four of the fucking Blue Angels)

hometown ominous megastructure

I love working with college students and I have a near bottomless well of patience for my interns, but holy hell am I struggling with a couple of folks in this new cohort.

Figure Skating For All crafted an open letter condemning the trans exclusionary policy USFS announced last fall. You don't have to be a USFS member to sign, fans can sign it as well.

Tfw your partner randomly sends you a link to the Wincest Wikipedia entry. (Some context: My partner talked me into watching Supernatural a couple years ago. I had reservations because it is very long and I am a completionist and he bails after the second season of anything. It did not work out)

Rewatching Helvetica. Everyone is somehow even more delightfully unhinged than I remembered. Really want a follow up with Millennial and Gen Z designers.

This has long been my wish for pairs skating. Do you wish to yeet or be yeeted? That is all that matters.

Mom: Happy almost birthday! Me: Thanks! I look forward to enjoying myself and not giving a fuck, to the extent that I am capable. Mom: Hah, good luck with that. Me: :((((((((

Work today was stressful and overwhelming (4 hr meeting, interns running amok) but I have logged off for bday eve shenanigans and shall remain logged off until Wednesday.

Me: Hey, I found a demo for a game where you clean vintage video game cartridges! It's very satisfying. M: You know, you could just admit that you've always secretly wanted to play PowerWash Simulator. Me: I don't.... Fuck, is it that obvious?

bmoretrail.com LMAO. Someone made a Baltimore themed Oregon Trial.

The problem with coming up with a training to help interns spot anti-LGBTQ dogwhistles is that I have had to wade through a lot of truly vile shit. The idea was to come up with examples that aren't so over the top obvious as to be pointless, but it was not worth giving myself a stress headache.

Just dug out the DVD player so I can binge Buffy. Ridiculous early 2000s DVD menus here I come! Can't wait to navigate a poorly rendered digital cemetery every few episodes.

Loved Seance of Blake Manor, but my raised-on-old-school-adventure-games brain really struggled with the time element. What do you *mean* I'm not supposed to click every object and exhaust all the dialogue options?

DON WE NOW OUR GAY APPAREL BITCHES, HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Tfw you meet your favorite local social media celebrity pupper irl and he lives up to all the hype. 😍

I have no idea why so many people on my timeline are mooing, but I *do* know that I'm going to have Rent stuck in my head all night.

Finally watching the filmed version of Merrily We Roll Along. I really think whoever did the editing should get a special award for making it look like Groffsauce isn't a saliva fountain. (I say this with love and affection, many of my favorite musical theater folks are v spitty)

In a very Anne Shirley in the depths of despair kind of mood today. ... she types, and then immediately remembers that she forgot to take one of her meds the other day.

Everything is terrible, but Shoma Uno is *back* and that is something.

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

I am extremely bad at moderation but apparently I did a moderation tonight so I am (grudgingly) proud of myself. Feeling cute, might delete later.

Normally I bite my tongue when a JCO post makes the rounds here, but I feel like the upscale mall one really epitomizes how out of touch she is. Which tracks with my (admittedly hazy) recollections of the interactions I had with her as a retail worker over a decade ago.

Just discovered that jelly sandals came back and was instantly transported to the Gap circa 1997. Grass perfume and all.

Finished Pokopia and have still not adjusted to the mechanic where you place items by horking them up.

Me: Dammit, why do my favorite bars keep closing? M: Well, you do have a penchant for weird bars that are mostly empty except on weekends, and bartenders who are unapologetically themselves rather than people pleasers and will ban assholes and abusers for life. Me: ... very true.

I'll just be over here repeatedly posting and immediately deleting posts out of fear of being a huge bummer, feel free to ignore me. 😂

When I first saw the Baltimore: Actually, I Like It sticker, I was commuting to Towson and working at a PWI. I considered getting it as a fuck you to the many white coworkers who were incredulous that I would choose to live in the city and asked how I felt safe doing so.

Wishing Sondheim was around to write an updated version of Assassins, and wondering who we can tap to write it instead.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Starting a campaign for Saulison to use this version of I'm Too Sexy for a gala program next year if they don't retire. ⛸️

I have just stumbled on a magazine that is basically Elle for tradwives, please excuse me while I claw my own eyes out.

The friendliest unfriendly person you know, a me story.

Singing "brain weasels" to the tune of Moon River. As one does when the brain weasels decide to have a rave.

I am once again begging LGBTQ centers to stop changing their names to "The Center." I promise you can rebrand in a way that is a) less boring and b) less irritating to me, personally, as someone who is paid to keep track of you.

Trivial embarassing confession: You know how some people momentarily confuse Secretary and Secretariat? I have that with National Velvet and Blue Velvet.

Have been out of library land for several years now. Just came across the sentence "Authority is constructed and contextual" and was fully transported back to 2015/16 and the Framework debates. ::Stares into middle distance::

I'm looking forward to a non decade RD theme, but I've really enjoyed the number of besties in the club programs we've gotten the last few years. I hope switching to a more romantic theme doesn't make ice dance feel straighter again. Gonna need more folks to be weird in the free to make up for it.

when you try to put the Ikea together without a buddy or the instructions

Congratulating myself on no longer putting off dental work with a mango lassi. Now that the good sedation drugs have worn off, it is time to repair all the railroad tracks in Pokopia.

My mom and I have very similar taste in music, and I was raised on a lot of stuff I still listen to - Joan Baez, Dar Williams, Sondheim, etc. She was fine with Tori Amos until The Beekeeper came out. She declared that album "utterly tedious" and I have never fully recovered. (She was not wrong).

Nononono, we should ask Werner Herzog

Cool, now we're doing snow and thunder at the same time. I assume the rain of toads will start any minute.

My alma mater: What can we do to get you to donate to us? Me: I dunno, maybe go back in time and don't teach me about systems of oppression in which you are actively complicit? And, while you're at it, make me believe that you give a single fuck about students?

Hurrah, my first outdoor drinking day of the year.

My partner firmly believed he was inoculated against chicken pox because he had already had goose bumps. Today that sounds like some kind of fringe antivax position, but no, just kid logic.

Finally saw Chess and am apparently now going to have Endgame in my head forever. Also Nicholas Christopher is amazing, holy hell.

I! Am on! A train!!! I just really love train travel, y'all.

Oh fun, Amtrak's entire booking system is down. 🫠