i know it’s a long season and we’re only three and change games in but it really feels like it’s gonna be a lonnnnnnnnng season for the phils. hope i’m wrong.

thank god for antidepressants

now THAT is some madness holy shit

OMFG

this is such a cool fucking story

having both insomnia and narcolepsy means i can’t fall asleep when i want to and i do fall asleep when i don’t. it’s,,,, not ideal.

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my therapist said she thinks i hate myself but i told her that i am just a journalist and journalists tend to be skeptical people and i am just very skeptical of myself. then she said she doesn’t think i hate myself, she knows i do.

i reread martyr! by Kaveh Akbar recently and it is easily one of my favorite books i have ever read. anybody else who has read it: are there any books out there similar to it? i’d really love to find and read some.

a lot of people who write memoirs have not lived lives interesting enough for a memoir. just my two cents.

damn how are they planning to move it

i have been coding up a storm at work lately and it is my happy place

one must imagine Steven Rich happy

“do you know who i am” is a question that answers itself

it's friday in the office and the lights are off in my section of the newsroom and i have no clue how to turn them on but also i'm enjoying the vibe

always read the footnotes in government reports. it's the best source of fascinating documents to FOIA.

“put your money where your mouth is” bro do you even know how dirty most bills are?

i got into journalism for the same reason most people do: i wanted more pictures of spider-man

you simply love to see it.

it’s not you, it’s me. it’s always me who’s the problem.

i assume any name that ends in "rry" or "ry" or "ri" is short for a real name that ends in "rold" and i cannot be told otherwise

you couldn't pay me to read that no siree

got called "captain caveat" by a coworker and tbh there's no better superhero name for me

go phils. please don't hurt me (that bad, i know you will) this season.

if anyone with experience with eating disorder recovery has any tips/tricks, my dms are always open for them. i need all the help i can get.

a fun factoid: i have a (home) library tattoo on my calf that was done by the lead singer for New Found Glory

my guy is looking at the data. so proud.

recovery is not linear an that's the hardest part for my dumb brain. i beat myself up for eating. i beat myself up for not eating. i long for the day where neither is true. it'll come but man it's gonna be awhile.

i'm sure it exists but i'd read the hell out of a deeply reported piece on the history of the maxwell house haggadah

god i love a library

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god i love a library

yo quiero beisbol

back in remission. thank you so much to everyone who helped make this possible.

took me a year but finally got some new business cards

if you're writing a song and want to include your boy in the lyrics, Steven Rich 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘢 rhymes with Sisyphus is all i'm saying

the 10,000 hour rule for mastery is bullshit. i’ve been depressed for over 100,000 hours and it still beats the shit out of me.

the 10,000 hour rule for mastery is bullshit. i’ve been depressed for over 100,000 hours and it still beats the shit out of me.

idk if the @nytimes.com crosswords have been getting easier or if just playing them every day since i started here has just made me better at them

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so much data so little time

i currently use omnifocus for my to do lists but am wondering if anyone has something they thinks works well/better for multiple projects/contexts?

your email has found me, well, unwell

a thing i really love about investigative reporting is becoming an expert in a number of really niche subjects

i want to share one of the coolest data collection methods i employed for a story, from over a decade ago. it was used for this story in what i still think might be the best series i have ever worked on:

i did not think it would be easy by any means, but eating disorder recovery is so draining, mentally and physically. i know it will get easier and things will get better but right now i feel like i'm struggling hard. i'm committed to continuing the process as long as it takes despite all this.

my coworker is sleeping on the job

i know the uconn women are great but holy shit

i just want “normal” brain chemistry ya know