anxiety is back w vengeance, pharmacies still suck, but I did read some Orphic hymns so that was nice.

don’t be in such a devil of a hurry to sink!

🖼️ Yamaguchi Kayō

two months of barely functioning because burnt out + heat wave flare up => full on crash out (mental and physical) this week. but i am healing :)

apropos of the thing of the day: just about every construction regulation that you personally find to be annoying overkill is in place because somebody had a grisly, avoidable death. they don’t establish regulations ahead of disaster just to be safe. they do it to clean up horrifying messes

hmm maybe I’ll scrap my work plans and spend all day reading academic articles about disability, monstrosity, and popular fiction….

I can’t let myself go near the bookshelves because then I’ll pull out all my erotic elegy and spend the day translating and theorizing, rather than putting together this community organization assessment. I should really be reading a 990 right now…

FMAB really is that bitch.

I have been reading Wilson’s Iliad to the puppy. She loves it. She’s rooting for Achilles, but only because she hasn’t met Hector yet! Mostly she falls asleep and winds herself around my ankles.

Quite burnt out but wildly bored as well.

I thought I might get to London this summer but I am sad to report that I am stuck on this side of the pond until next June at least. Give my love to the V&A and Persephone Books (the Bath location).

This heat is intolerable. I am not languid by nature, only lusty. Where is the sea breeze I need?

now that my hands and wrists and fingers don’t really work, I am trying to avoid the temptation of not-tweets

I have not been well and I am not quite well and all I wish is to return to the bleak shore and be happier than ever before.

emerging slowly From A fresh hell of work, school, and abject disability.

i miss england so badly I can feel it in my bones.

kids need more rights.

the troubled teen industry needs to be regulated off the face of the earth and the architects behind every camp should face jail time and billions of dollars in fines. the parents who sent their children to them should have parental rights revoked

RFK jr saw the international child slave labor rankings and felt our relativity low position reflected poorly on the health of our nation

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

it’s incredible that we’ve invented a technology that is frighteningly good at generating plausible english sentences and my phone is still like, “did you mean ‘I lorb you?’”

block sir tony blair from politics

This is the current director of Pompeii. I could not be more furious and I believe he could not be more wrong. www.westernwheel.ca/weather-news...

every time someone's like Claude deleted this or Claude convinced a teen to kill themselves I picture a mischievous french guy

what if I’m just a side character in a christopher isherwood novel

just realized that everything I am wearing (minus the unmentionables and the loafers) is early 90s brooks brothers

Common misconception but the state motto of New Jersey, “It’s-a me!” is actually English.

I replaced the hideous button at the throat of my cobalt opera coat with the bell half-sleeves with a divine little bauble I discovered in an old button shop in the garment district. Extremely pleased.

Maybe when I’m unemployed this summer I’ll get back to my various correspondence…

can’t believe I forgot Rome’s birthday this year 😔

How it is, there is no telling

this service’s “secret?” they’re messy, imperfect humans figuring out life for the first time, just like the rest of us🫶

the irony is increasingly tedious

Hmmmmm I wanna go into policy???? Fr fr?

First graded paper since I started grad school after a few years of teaching…. Not elated by my high marks. Not unhappy with the mistakes I made. I think… I think I’m more interested in grading his grading? He’s much nicer than I am. No wonder my students are scared to receive my revisions!

First grad school grades are in— I did really really well and feel almost absolutely nothing, mostly just have some questions about APA style? Confused as to why I didn’t get more points off? Glad to see I haven’t grown beyond my overachiever complex. 🙄

feeling lively aka lying in the garden shade and ranting about welfare policy on my public instagram story

“If you don’t embrace AI you’ll be left in the dust” like yes that sounds lovely one dust please

At this point the only reason to call it the Labour Party is it lasts too long, hurts like hell, and people keep popping in and out to check on your genitals.

Disney Promises ‘Star Wars’ Fans A New Era Of Blind Stabs At What They Seemed To Like Before https://theonion.com/disney-promises-star-wars-fans-a-new-era-of-blind-stabs-at-what-they-seemed-to-like-before/

acf.gov now runs a big red banner at the top of each page, prompting you to click and report fraud so that the government can “stamp out” (implied widespread) abuse of welfare funds. this is new!

three hours at the ER vet last night + they’re filming Dexter in my building + im really behind on grad school stuff = constant, mid-high anxiety running out of anxiety meds bc tech error was just the cherry on top

Fuck it. I don't have a job right now. I'm sad and tired and busy. I published these two to very little fanfare several years ago and I'm opening them up as PWYW. finally: A View From The Bottom and Lolita Isn't Dead rufflejax.itch.io/two-zines

This is peak "pretending sports doesn't exist" content with "can't explain the sudden poor play of her Louisana College Kittens"

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

“Waffles’ blood pressure was fine” - not a sentence you hear in a human ER!

it is spring and the ladies of the f train and lower-east manhattan are fucking killing it with these outfits!

Free idea for the chicken nugget companies: a goalie shaped chicken tender. If we can make dinosaurs…!