Hahahaha, nobody is eating outside the Public Market today because it's raining so the seagulls are standing on the picnic tables yelling about it

I feel like I am losing my mind. Filled out nitpicky online gaming license form. Got to last screen, selected payment form, error. Back out and try again, error. Click "for help click here." Get a message that says "Our apologies, the Help Text you are trying to view is currently under development."

Awesome, the "new and improved" Canada Council portal now has no way to get the application questions without creating a draft application, and you can only advance from page to page if you put something in every answer field. Plus they eliminated the downloadable excel budget form

OK, I think I will plan a trip to visit my parents in Dalton for my birthday this year, which is two days later

I cannot get over the fact that during the three years I was a graduate student at Yale, I never once set foot in the Beinecke. I guess I always kept assuming there would be time ahead to get there, and then POOF, it was gone

I don't even live in the US anymore but seeing the East Wing turned into a pile of rubble in mere days is making me sadder and angrier than I really thought it could

Came home to do a little quiet work in my room instead of spinning my wheels in the office but my husband is having a nap and snoring and I can’t concentrate!

I shouldn’t have to have someone interpret tattoos on a half naked white man sitting for an interview before we all agree this is absolutely absurd and we all need to just move on from this guy. You cannot expect Black or Jewish people to put with this fucking ridiculous nonsense. Come on now

This is exactly correct, and it's why the constant drumbeat of talking about, looking at, debating, having to think about Nazis is draining beyond belief. I don't want to see a swastika with a red slash through it every day, either.

I just can’t get over the unexamined privilege it takes to be perfectly ok with supporting a candidate for office who has been sporting a death camp guard tattoo for 20 years

Spending a glorious evening watching Bob Fosse videos on YouTube for references for an act I’m working on

Can we get a Ravelry pattern search feature to filter out anything that looks like Bill Cosby would have worn it on TV in the 80s?

It’s allegedly international ass day, so here is some bi-national ass to enjoy

Finally, after two years of working on this off and on, I have finished Middle Son’s high school present, and not a moment too soon as he’s taking midterms in his second year of college right now Then I picked up another WIP that has been sitting around for ages and frogged it. Satisfying

Vax recovery status: in bed at 9pm with two Advil and a stack of Oreos

I need a good get rich quick scheme because I learned today that what my (hard to buy for) husband really wants is six of those 12 foot skeletons and a big yard to arrange them in various tableaux

Have fluffy black tulle evening dress; left on bed in garment bag Cat took up residence on bag, since obviously just a mattress is not sufficiently soft I am such a sappy cat mom that I let her stay as long as she liked, which turned out to be about 12 hours

Flu and Covid shots coursing through my veins. Pharmacist told me it’s a particularly sore-arm vaccine this year, so if I’m laid up tomorrow whining you’ll know why

Playing a scary witch at a haunted house today and for my incantation I am using a little Yiddish nonsense song my grandfather used to sing me

It’s not right that my cats are yelling at me on shabes

I am once again asking you to refrain from posting screenshots of trolling government officials and accounts. They are blocked/muted for good reason

I am going to invent a pocket-sized pad of little newsprint slips of paper you can tear off and use to wrap up your used chewing gum and sell monthly subscriptions for $75 a pop. If I call it retro, minimalist and analog I am sure to become an overnight millionaire and get a New York Times profile

I want to read but also I want to do some needlework

Hiding in my room until someone else has done all the dishes and it’s safe to come out

Discovered near the ICE facility in Portland this morning.

Creepy dolls being creepy

Grrrr all the leftover steak I was planning to eat for my pre-show dinner has been consumed

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

OH FUCK YES PUMPKIN SPICE MAPLE LEAF COOKIES I AM SUCH A CANADIAN NOW

Got my invitation for my flu and Covid shots and amazed to see (at 10pm) that the booking and registration site has a queue and a wait. Haven’t seen this since the early days of the vaccine.

Avenue of the Americas. Locals pronounce it “Sixth Avenue”

Tea-dyeing a costume at 11pm #burlesquelife

Not delighted my parents are in the air right now en route to JFK

I’ve never been diagnosed with ADHD (two of my kids have been) but who really needs diagnosis when I went upstairs to get a cold pill, brought it downstairs, sat down to check my email, and now have no memory of whether I actually took it. I don’t see it anywhere, so I’m going to guess I did

Why the hell did Purolator just mark my package of sweatpants as undeliverable, when it doesn’t need a signature and even if it did, I’ve been home all day???

Mmmmmm, hot steaming drugs* *Daytime NeoCitran

Vancouver folks: I need to organize a Board retreat for Saturday, Nov 8th and we are looking for a space that isn't just a board room but has some comfortable seating area, like couches, for 8-10 people. Any recommendations?

I have to knit an I-cord border around a whole-ass afghan

Well I hope that ABC’s revolting decision to cut the Equity Office at least means the arts grant applications will be shorter, since obviously they no longer care about equity

Today I feel like boiled garbage

Working on a mask for a haunted doll group act and if it comes out the way I want it to, is going to be so creepy and so beautiful

I bought a rice cooker for the office so we could transition from summer salad potluck to fall rice bowl potluck

My parents arrived in town late last night, so our Rosh Hashanah dinner tonight will be: Chicken Soup with Matzoh Balls Brisket with Onion Gravy Kasha Varnishkes Sweet Potatoes with Tsimmes Glaze Horseradish Pickles Challah, Apples, Honey, etc Honey Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream

Somebody filled the washing machine to the brim with towels, ran the cycle, and left them there, half sopping wet. Some are in the dryer now, some are thrown in the sink for later. 14 yo disclaims responsibility, current lead suspect is 19yo

Report from Vancouver World Cup webinar for businesses: it’s going to be a cluster all around the city 🤷‍♀️

New scantily clad rosh hashanah themed photos are up on my insta, sweet new year, all!

I love salt water taffy so much

Wanted to make a culotte out of the rest of some light denim but I just don’t have QUITE enough so now I don’t know what to do with myself for the rest of the day

I was gifted a giant platter of lumpia today. Now there is a small package of lumpia in the fridge

I wonder if I will ever stop being a nervous wreck before I perform solos