This is one of the better ones

Reading about forgiveness, as part of a new writing thingy.

The food at Cheeni in Raleigh is just superb. So stoked they’re opening another restaurant, this time in Durham. Bhel puri and Limca dreams.

Maybe doing a kettlebell workout after getting shots in each arm was perhaps not the best life decision.

Flu on my left side, Covid on my right, here I am...

Taught three classes today, have no voice left, but there is a loaf of bread waiting at home (baked it this morning) and that is all that can be salvaged of this day.

Not me looking up a book's pub date in Google Books when it's two feet away on my bookshelf

A wonderful student gifted me some small-batch freshly milled flour. First loaf attempt with it, now hydrating...

📣 South Asia friends and colleagues! Duke is hiring a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in South Asian cultural studies. Please share widely! Info here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25880

Am curious about what people are interested in reading about the social-political aspects of medicine in this moment, given that algorithms feed outrage-kindling and “oh I already agree with that” takes.

current mood

Say hello to guava challah, what happens when a pastelito crashes into a brioche.

Seems it’s microwave social panic o’clock.

Guy sits next to me on the plane: “Oh a masked person, you must be sick, I better watch out.” He then took a picture of me. Tweeted it, writing “I am going to die. He’s got a mask on.” Me:

Estimated wait time in the doctor’s office, according to a computer monitor, is “on time.” When did healthcare become like airline travel?

First week in my “How Hospitals Work” course done. Today we read Chekhov’s “Ward No. 6” and talked about the strange ordinariness of clinics.

cheeky

late / capitalism

America, in brief.

Blessed is the human who invented this.

Lush

Berghain queue

Getting back on the bike today after 10 weeks away, how messy will this be

Instead of panicking about book writing I emptied shelves to make room for books I want to read, desire over disaster etc

Office desk dust getting strewn around as I toss random paper from last tear, to make room for this year’s random paper piles.

Calling all of this “a culture war” completely obscures how the for-profit healthcare system means anyone can have a price.

One of the joys of this here skeeteroo thing so far is the (present) lack of pop-epidemiology garbage.

I do not understand sharks.

Hmmm, interesting CDC Director

This, however, is good stuff.

I wanted this to be much better than it was

not academics sending emails with read receipt requests in july

strong opinions

On the hunt for a sampler of black licorice. There is a store just for this purpose.

girls at the table next to me in the cafe are asking each other: “would you rather have hairy ears or a hairy back?” 🫤

Thinking of teaching a class about error, failure, glitches, and the like.

That error in your medical chart may be there because of…copy-paste. https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/20/medical-records-errors-copy-paste/

vegan döner, please and thank you

“Gentle reminder” emails already coming into the inbox and it’s just June 😭

tempelhof, big sky

The analyses in American media of the Odisha train crash are really struggling to find a vocabulary for infrastructural neglect.

The way that the same set of DB trains get cancelled every afternoon makes one think that this is some ploy by the tourism boards of small German towns to force you to stay because you simply cannot get to a bigger city.

Treptower, sunset

Charles Boyd at Gropius Bau

The spam email torrents lately have been from Ace Hardware for deals on wrenches and nailguns, what a nice change

My new overlord

Indisputable king of the Haribo family

I am now a willing participant in spargel mania

Very on board with this; the forced curiosity of this moment means that genuine curiosity is increasingly difficult to mobilize and detect…