Trader Joe's checkout guy thought I was young enough to ask if I'd "gone to class today," and then gave me flowers when he heard my response that I was closing on my house this week lol

Frankly I could use another week to prep for the onslaught that is about to be my October...

Great show with @laurajohansen.bsky.social

One thing homeownership has fundamentally changed is my attitude towards water. "Oh water! It's so great! You need it to live and it's the source of all life." BULL. WATER IS THE ENEMY.

The weather is gonna be sh*t tomorrow and I should have gone grocery shopping today...

Time for the most apropos movie of the week for me, "One Battle After Another"

For $20 this looks pretty rad, and I'm not even a cat owner

The home buying process has felt very prescient/metaphorical for "One Battle After Another" because my sellers have been less than ideal

If my realtor manages to make a specific closing cost concession happen for me, I'll sending her a NICE bottle of wine and a Christmas card every year

I'm a Lauren Bacall-Jennifer Tilly (?)

Completed 32 trips around the sun yesterday 🎂 what a ride so far

Was very still at The Long Walk, which felt disrespectful? Francis Lawrence loves himself a plot centered around youth in a perilous contest set in a dystopian/post civil-war 'America'

Going through some drawers and found my old Pixel phone (that I'd kept, just in case) with its screen coming off because the Li battery under is **swollen**. Off to da electronics disposal site after work because YIKES

Panthers losing badly, Dolphins already having "players only meetings", and the Giants losing by a freaking FG because they sh*t the bed late in the game - yep, football season is BACK ONLINE

Got my COVID and flu boosts today, so a big thank you to NC Gov. Stein for finally putting that standing order into effect so we can by-proxy tell RFKJr to go shove it

The Door The Car Grime Architect

I am going to be (emotionally) ill until closing but I am also quite excited - please give me your W/D and refrigerator recommendations if you want, I get to buy appliances!!

Me telling the boys about my dating life

Nice empire of dirt, dude. It would be a shame if I could have it all

Related: Even our most dedicated local pharmacy has canceled all appointments until after the ACIP meeting later this month, when eligibility could be narrowed again. Notice from the NC board of pharmacy here: www.southpointpharmacync.com/_files/ugd/1...

US Open men's final delayed "because of the additional security measures to allow fans to reach seats within Arthur Ashe" -- send the Vacuous Clementine (who I doubt really understands/appreciates tennis) home, delay solved

I've looked around at different CVS and Walgreens near me, all are telling me I need a Rx - just popped in a request via MyChart, so 🤞🏻

Guy designing the Nostromo: However many chains you think we need on the ship, double--then triple that number and that's what we'll put in the ship's chain room. Assistant: Yes, sir. And the chains are dry, of course? Designer: You're fired

Mostly orange 🧡 theme to my last four watched, love when that happens

What an awful disappointment - can't we enjoy the final & another Sincaraz spectacular in peace?!

Cronenberg's "The Little Mermaid"

If NIN doesn't realize the Boyz Noise remix of this they've been doing on tour, I'm sending a strongly worded note to Misters Reznor & Ross Also so sorry for the Blair Witch Projectness of this, I got a lil excited OOPS

If you can hear me singing along to HLaH in this, no you can't

The NIN merch lines are *insane* but well organized & people are being kind?!? What a trip

Guys The Atlantic actually went out and got an Ole Miss Chi O to write this. They found a ball knower on their staff and said fuck it write it up.

@wackhumanbeing.bsky.social I think there's a potential trivia team name idea embedded in here?

My little temp forearm tattoo is wearing off, and it's kinda ironic given the meaning / making me want it done permanently... And for my Med Bluesky friends, eat your hearts out finding a stick on these shallow ass blue veins

US Open coverage has been a mixed bag for 2025 Pros, finally doing split screen so we can see *TWO* matches at once & killer Sincaraz matches Con, WHY is the background song for cutting to commercial Benson Boone's 'Mystical Magical'? I want to serve a tennis ball at the head of whoever picked it

LMAO

Feeling like a bougie ass N Carolinian under a borrowed Shibumi shade at the beach in Wilmington (which btw needs a brief instruction to setup because it took us *too long* to figure out the carry bag is the counterweight)

Why do men take so long in public restrooms?!

Drove around a potential neighborhood to buy in and THANK GOD I DID because I did not like it - the place I thought was my 'dream house' looked older & smaller in person than I expected, another didn't have *garbage pickup* (for $400k? I think NOT), and the last had nowhere for guests to park...

I'd like to thank @thetate.bsky.social for getting past the intro of Caught Stealing this evening and going "Caught stealing, like from baseball," so I could clock the title properly because the double entendre hadn't yet dawned upon me 👏🏻

Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok

I'm going to have to take a fall trip to Canada for *basic preventative healthcare*, like bffr

A photo you took that brings you inner peace.

The community of Drosophila researchers is amazing, mutually supportive and collaborative. Right now a key resource for our community, @flybase.bsky.social , is threatened by the cancellation of its NIH grant and is seeking community help in raising short term funds 1/n 🧪 please share

We've been crashing out a lot, let's crash in tonight.

I want to ban realtors' photographers from using wide angle lenses because they make some *very bad and/or small* houses look good in pictures - Open House visits were insightful. Also I've changed opinions on this now, but YES TO STAGING. An empty ass house is so hard to envision furniture in!

Moving plans to visit the local library book sale & a yoga workshop so I can tour open houses & crash neighborhoods near homes I "liked" on Redfin...