I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

Milkshake puck

Only 12 hours later than scheduled but I knew my good luck with that particular marathon itinerary would run out someday.

Maybe not typical “vacation reading,” but I finished this anthology this morning and thought it was super interesting - which was my expectation since @roxanegay.bsky.social edited it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In a shocking turn of events, my mom gave me a fountain pen for my birthday. It’s a lovely dark blue that won’t photograph accurately.

And they say romance is dead.

"the show's about to begin, time to get into your costumes!"

Picked these up at church today and they’ll go out to all my reps tomorrow.

very charmed that in its eulogy to mass market paperbacks the NYT found an 18-year-old who uses the word "reckon" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

My DIY Brit Lit class continued with Mrs. Dalloway, finished at lunch today.

Settings > Content and Media > Autoplay Video and GIFs Turn it off, now.

Only three bags remaining on the LEGO Sherlock Holmes book nook set!

Somehow all the other people in this morning’s HYROX workout (OOF) are smiling in the picture while I am clearly still fully dissociated.

Successfully hired someone today!

Today is my dad’s birthday. He would have been 80.

u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.

The plural of Dollar General is Dollars General. We counted 15 Dollars General between Oxford and Mobile today.

Pippin Christmas joy to all!

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

2025 was like the “Battlestar Galactica” episode where the Cylons attacked every 33 mins.It required adjusting our way of thinking, of fighting, our imagination & our willingness to take risks. It required asking people who had done a specific job a specific way for a long time to do it differently.

I did a lot of work on my office today to make it more like what it was pre-pandemic. Excited to have my reading spot back!

I spent a few hours decluttering/ cleaning my office, finishing phase one of a reorganization that should basically return it to its pre-pandemic state as a relaxing place. I have to wait until after Christmas to start phase two because it’s currently where all the Christmas presents are stashed

The Donald Trump Kennedy Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Want To Learn How To Do Other Stuff Good Too

I would like to keep donning our gay apparel and add back the meadcup and barrel.

I did 40 legal wall balls at the gym this morning. Then I came home and knocked over a bottle of ink while attempting to fill a fountain pen. You win some, you lose some.

We also went to a local nursery and got ambitious but Mike and his parents pulled it off!

I went through all my piles of books today and sorted them and this is the remaining TBR situation, nonfiction on top, fiction in the middle, and poetry on the bottom.

I’m flying a little close to the sun trying out a new recipe for Thanksgiving. Will I end up like Icarus? It’s got potatoes, sour cream, and cheese as ingredients so I feel like my odds of survival are good.

I got auto-approved by @graywolfpress.bsky.social on NetGalley, you can’t tell me anything today, I am the boss.

I have ordered my slightly unhinged work and gym holiday party outfit. No one can say I didn’t participate this year.

I’ve had a very, very, very long week but it has also been book-heavy. Tuesday I went to a Zoom discussion about book awards. Wednesday night M and I watched the livestream of the National Book Awards. Tonight I went to the student book club, where we discussed both Shatter Me and Gravity’s Rainbow…

This morning at the gym I got my knee to the floor on all the sandbag lunges, but the really impressive part, I think, is that I then got back up. Yes, everything is sore.

I played around with zine templates today. I was really excited about a one page version, only to discover upon printing that it was for A4 paper.

If you let someone cut in front if you in traffic and they don’t do the little hand wave as thanks, you should be legally allowed to ram their car.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

This building’s portion of the Systems Department is in the Halloween spirit.

Costume #1 Yes, I did a full workout in this. 😂

I am done with my to do list for the day and there are still 75 minutes left in the work day. If I didn’t have to run a time-specific errand after work I would have figured out how to get out of here early. It rained all day Sunday and today is nice, there ought to be some sort of comp time for that

In case it's useful.

I am feeling pretty smug about how well the book club I started is going.

molly the beauty of the first game in the series is the promise of endless possibilities tbh

I think some sort of memo was sent to units outside the library about emailing me to demand money to replace existing technology that still works. My dudes, I have no budget.

I tripped yesterday and very narrowly avoided smashing my face into concrete thanks to the heroic work of my left wrist, which is now a bit sore and swollen. This morning I found out about a walk-in ortho clinic so I went there to make sure I hadn’t really injured anything. Just a bad strain!

Came in to find one zillion emails about library platforms being down due to the AWS outage.

Rushing to the pharmacy to pick up my fat checks from Merck and Pfizer.

I talked to my college chaplain yesterday for the first time since 1998 and he helped me sort out some theological dilemmas I’ve been facing. I am not a regular churchgoer but I do have a faith tradition that’s meaningful to me and he helped me sort through some things.

I held a puppy!

Unfortunately I do love buying new hardcovers.