It’s never a new lesson but it’s always a rude one when you realize that no degree of competence, qualifications, or confidence can save you from misogyny

I told someone close to me a story I’ve been crying about every 0.5-4 hours for the past several days and they took the other person’s side lmao awkward

I know I may come as as “cringe,” cheesy, or overly sincere, but it’s only bc I’m cringe, cheesy, and overly sincere

I just my hair cut and the stylist was asking me if I wear really tight buns or ponytails bc all my hair was breaking in the same spot, pretty high up, but now that I think about it I’m pretty sure it’s where my n95 strap hits ☹️

All these people with elaborate berry farm dehydration contraptions…. What y’all need so many berries for

I started using that Clinique moisturizer and I like it but in my head I can’t not call it dramaturgically different

The subtle but important difference between yayayayayay and ayayayay

My dog is a terrier chihuahua mix and I got her as a terrier person, not a chihuahua person, but I gotta say even the weirdest of those little guys are growing on me bc I can see my daughter in their face

Y’all is the plural of you and all y’all is the plural of y’all

The world can and will be better

No but why does the dunbarton bridge smell like that

When I was like a senior in college I was so into epenthesis idk why

I love it when you pass strangers and just say “morning” like as if you’re just giving each other an fyi

I always keep a Cuban flag in my zoom background bc I’m aware that my name is spelled wrong and that my mom’s genes won, and at least 1 in 5 people I meet want to ask what my deal is

I get so much joy from remembering all the little hand-clap rhyme games that we used to play in elementary school. Shoutout Miss Susie!!!

I hate when there's something that'd be so easy in pandas but idk how to do it in sheets/excel so i just look at my screen to decide what will be the least work in the end: just switching to python and switching back to collaborate, learning how to do it in sheets, or closing my computer in defeat

I don’t shave my legs but I do have trichotillomania and sometimes the results look similar but like if you were REALLY bad at shaving

For perhaps the first time I got a student email addressed not to Emily, not to Dr or Prof Rem, or even Ms Rem… MRS. EMILY

Sucks that I have to be at work when my pokemans miss me so much

They really got me buying $2.50 bubblys (one of the worst non-store brand fizzy waters, we all know it) from the vending machine at work bc they’re just so cold and crisp when I get off the bus

Got the tickets for my third consecutive year of summer of Montreal shows let’s goooooooo

I miss twitter. I’m still posting good, but I’m not getting any of the little points that make you feel validated

$5 footlong (but it’s an ice cream sandwich)

I'm having a brain blast: Sometimes you tell someone that you don't feel, e.g., respected. And they're confused bc they do say they respect you all the time! But it's about *actions* and the overall enviornment. So they start saying it even more and are like "and I changed my behavior!" but like...

My conspiracy theory is that the pokemans being obsessed with humans and humans coming back in Pokopia is human-ganda so we don't raise any Pokemon Rights concerns about battling them in the next game. They want us to believe that they would make this choice and stop asking questions

They say “out of the frying pan and into the fire” but sometimes it feels more like “out of the frying pan and onto the plate”

awoke from uneasy sleep to find myself transformed into a feature not a bug

When I was a kid I always thought I saw a crow but it was a grackle or thought I saw a monarch and it was a painted lady and now I see real crows and monarchs like constantly but I’m reflexively like “pfft you can’t fool me, that’s not a real crow”

To celebrate my birthday at work I made a candy salad and I brought some brown paper bags (and postcards) that I had printed pictures of my dog on, and I made little party hat stickers out of collage scraps, so my coworkers could give Luna a hat and then fill the bag with candy

Me: I can’t stand when people just text me “hi” and don’t say what they want!!! Me to my sister when I want a favor: Hi

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity... It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life." I think about this DADES passage every day.

My favorite thing about academia is the relationships that form when people help each other learn to THINK. Which is actually pretty intimate if you think about it? It doesn’t seem like a lot of circumstances give you the chance to know someone and be known in that way

Idk if I’m just an egomaniac but I never felt nervous asking for letters of rec. And like not bc I assume everyone wants to write me a GOOD letter even, I just think I’m a Pleasure To Have In Class and obviously people want to talk about it

I’m pleased to report that when I was using the guillotine paper cutter at work and the arm started to slip, I used my lightning fast reflexes to successfully catch and prevent the arm from falling onto and cutting the paper. I am pained to report that I did it with just like my bare hand

If I thought I would eventually get a switch 2 the pokopia fomo would be enough for me to buy it now but what am I gonna do with a switch when I have a steam deck and i am simply unable to swap between keypad layouts

A five minute ad break in a 40 minute podcast is diabolical (only halfway through, could be more!)

One time I asked my stepdad if he wanted some whataburger spicy ketchup with his fries and he said no thanks I make my own and used a fry to stir Tabasco into a blob of Heinz and idk why but I think about it all the time

Do you ever talk to other little sisters about shared experience of little sisterdom and get like little sister euphoria from being low key kind of annoying

I think I was my smartest like maybe my junior year of undergrad

i think you guys should read the dream hotel

This is how today feels www.youtube.com/watch?v=8skf...

It’s sooooooo annoying when you really do not feel like biking but it’s simply and obviously the best option

Don't tell Luna she's stinky It's true, but she don't wanna hear it Don't tell Luna she's stinky You'll crush her little puppy dog spirit

It's called Received Pronunciation because if people were allowed to pick their own vowels those probably wouldn't be the ones they'd go for

My favorite gummy influencer, we don’t have that similar of taste but she’s still my favorite bc she doesn’t just say “good,” she gives the kind of review where you can tell if you’ll like it and also bc there aren’t that many gummy influencers

The other advantage of having really nice advisors that other people also like to work with is you can be like “oh I’m Deb’s postdoc” and everyone wants to help you

the number one thing i learned in my field methods class was sharpie pen supremacy (jk it was including metadata in filenames) (jk it was like the linguistics stuff)

There are parts of the Santa Barbara corpus permanently burned into my brain from undergrad, one of them being “soo much better than last year” and people keep asking me how my class is going this semester (so much better than last year!) but no one gets the reference somehow

I love Gradescope but i would pay them $50 to let me give the same extension to multiple students at one time

Every time my backpack is comfortable I’m paranoid I’m leaving something behind. Like I should be weighed down with an ill-packed water bottle pushing into my back