Are y’all playing metazooa.com

People keep asking me what they should watch on tv and I say “Detroiters!” And then they ask me again but they haven’t watched Detroiters yet so I say “Detroiters!” And then later they ask me again but they still haven’t watched Detroiters yet

The Cartesian plane has “think” on one axis and “am” on the other

Anytime I have to start something over in real life I call it a rogue-like

I know this doesn’t make sense but every time I picture someone getting a sleep study I picture a two way mirror and multiple people in scrubs like literally actively watching you sleep in real time

I miss all the people from the height of my personal twitter experience and also twitter circles

69 love songs is a work of absolute genius bc it's a mix of absolute nonsense and the most beautiful songs you've ever heard and they're all 90 seconds long

I never watched family guy but I saw “how David lynch stole Christmas” in an edit of David lynch references in other media and now I can’t stop saying “don’t look away, let the fear wash over you”

I love how much my dog loves sitting on me

In the Bay Area you cannot dress based on the temperature, you have to project your day and determine how often you will be standing in the sun. Sun is hot, and shade is cold, don’t you look stupid in your sweater

As a K-PhD working in higher ed, the start of the fall semester has always felt like the “new year” more than January 1

I wish I didn’t have to go back to work and also that I hadn’t finished the roottrees are dead so I can just sit on the couch and play the roottrees are dead

I read Monstrilio in one day this week and enjoyed it quite a lot but the whole time I reading it I was thinking dang I hope someone told Guillermo del toro about this book, do you think he already knows?

Some a y’all should talk to more sociolinguists

A huge theme of my field methods class was metadata and I'm only just now realizing how much I internalized both like the habit of having specific templates for document titles and the specific preferences of my professor

Some kind of computer gizmo that automatically deletes student work I downloaded off my computer once it’s been graded and returned

When being the one to notice a problem turns it into your problem 🙃

too much work to afford to take a sick day and yet i fear the sick day may be taking me whether i like it or not

Yesterday someone told me something was $12 and I was like hey that’s lunch on reflex, but then I realized that’s really only like 1/2 or maybe 2/3 of lunch now

Petition to Stop Closing Restaurants I Like

Sometimes I see someone on the internet cutting paper with what look like fabric scissors and I literally have a physical reaction

Why do people act like they don’t love Diet Coke

Crazy how much more time I had to work on this project before I had a full time job but the old #linguistics coloring pages are still up! From personal experience they make a great last day of ling/lang class activity 😇

It’s so so so mean when people put you in positions where you have to hold them accountable. It’s so mean when they’re entitled about it and it’s even meaner when they’re gracious like c’mon y’all are killin me here

I love christmas shopping season bc i get so many redbubble orders that I make 25¢ on and then redbubble takes 75% of, basically rich now

I hate it so much how much work you have to assign basically over thanksgiving break. Like trust me I didn’t want to do it eeeitherrrr I want you to go chill at home with grandma or cook a big meal with your flatmates but the calendar simply demands it

There’s too many ads everywhere, everything is an ad

My dog can be really entitled sometimes

When you don’t want to walk the dog bc you’re working but unfortunately he’s even more working than you

Wow, thank god i wrote "March 11-12" in my notebook with absolutely no context or obvious association to anything else on that page. Otherwise I might have forgotten that date

idk maybe i'm just not woke enough, i can't keep up with the changing terminology. But like since when is it lgbtq+?? In my day it was lgbt*kʷ+ and we got by just fine

when i interned at linguist list one summer in college someone had taken a bunch of one-side-clean paper and cut them in half or quarters or something and stapled them together into little scratch notepads and they were just all over the office and honestly it was kind of great

Me: It was really gloomy this morning so I was listening to Leonard Cohen My postdoc advisor: Hang on a sec isn’t Leonard Cohen pretty gloomy?? Me: Yes, and that’s why I became morose

My tinted lip balm never feels very tinted until I accidentally color outside the lines

Integrating LLMs into search engines is a dereliction of duty.

It’s nice how they put such long aisles in Berkeley bowl to accommodate the lines but it’s weird how they decorated them with groceries

I have to pee soooo much at work bc I drink and refill my water bottle for fun

thank GOD I just spent 80 years doing something poorly with matplotlib only to find seaborn has a way better totally friendly version 🤡

You can forget a lot about R

Google Forms should let you save a custom theme. Or if they already do that they should tell me how you do it

My first year GSIing I had costume contests in my sections (determined by secret vote) and I actually stand by it, it was fun.

I am so lucky to have had so many mentor-mentee relationships that encapsulate my loftiest, most idealized notions of academia

Not to be all kids these days about it but I feel like expectations around attending class have really changed and I feel like it’s not great for the culture

My new bit is telling my dog she looks great in spots

My first year of grad school we were obsessed with ordering half pours at bars

Hate it when I've already eaten all my snacks

Why does it feel like you have to commit to tucking your shirt when you get dressed at the beginning of the day when you could simply untuck at any point

when i send an email part of me hopes they'll just never email me back

Trying to smile at the person in the kn95 but they can’t tell behind my n95

The chair company is so funny