At some point, I would like to be able to get through a research project without asking myself “Why are you like this”?

Has anyone else’s iPhone/watch started forgetting permissions? I’ve given the weather app permission to use my location at least a dozen times today and it’s still not working right. I’m about 15 minutes away from getting a Clicks Communicator and reliving my brief days as a Summer Associate.

An underappreciated argument for the liberal arts.

My favorite thing is when academics explain their field like they are telling you the best gossip ever.

25 words left.

8,360 without losing anything substantive. Definitely starting to hit a limit though! 860 to go!

I have to cut something from 11,000 words to 7,500 words, so let's see how this goes!

I genuinely think that one of the best things a person (of any age) can do for their mental health is develop an offline hobby that keeps your hands busy so you can't scroll while you are doing it.

I *refuse* to watch a TV show about college professors unless: (1) it has the same tone as Scrubs and (2) no one sleeps with their students.

March is more than half over - why are we only getting mad now?

"That's great! Can you tell me more?"

Meanwhile, the rest of us have just learned not to go to the on-campus Starbucks in the middle of the afternoon during exams week.

It’s not a good sign when the historians start dropping emergency podcast episodes.

No, I do not want to let my work zoom phone track my location. WTF?

I do not know what "boy kibble" is and I do not want to learn. You can just keep that secret.

Autocomplete in text editors is going to be my villain origin story.

I'm so glad that my university moved towards zoom phones, because now I can get notifications about spam phone calls on my computer.

My dog is walking through the open door of her pen, going to the other side, and whining at me through the walls to come let her out.

Having to cite laws using anything but Bluebook formatting is the worst.

Weird and curious uptick in follows by bot accounts.

I'm considering giving up on noise cancelling headphones and just buying these

Some states have organized their statutes in the weirdest way possible, and we do not discuss it enough.

My Instagram algorithm has somehow decided that I need to see a lot of videos from influencer vets who specialize in end-of-life care/euthanasia for dogs, and this is worse than the Sarah Maclochlan PETA ads.

I can tell whoever designed the payment portal for California bar fees read Nudge a little too closely.

As I keep reminding my family on the East Coast, it's 82 degrees today in Tucson.

Music streaming algorithms need to learn to distinguish between songs I like and songs I listen to on repeat for days because something about them helps my brain blank out long enough to get some actual work done.

I have just written the same sentence in about a dozen different ways. None of them are right, and I'm 95% the sentence is going to get cut anyway but I feel like I can't write the rest of the paragraph without writing this first. Writing sucks sometimes.

Someone’s natural experiment just dropped.

If I were running a subscription-based business, I would make sure it was easier for customers to change their address rather than cancel their subscription.

The copious houseplants are how we can tell the Superbowl Half-Time Show is targeting millennials.

She didn’t want to get off the bed long enough for me to finish putting it together.

The fact that this is the only dog-related item proves definitively that Ikea designers are cat people. www.ikea.com/us/en/p/grej...

Also, if you are a reader and you have to move, I would highly recommend taking pictures of your bookcases first - it makes re-shelving everything to much easier, especially if you are tight on space.

I moved this week, and it was unsurprisingly a giant pain and I have a ton of work to catch up on, BUT I now have an ACTUAL SEWING ROOM and my heart is so happy.

Technology can be really cool, but sometimes I feel like half the new features I see are really there to fix issues caused by the last technological marvel.

As I was informed during my fourth phone call to customer service, my ISP is now part of AT&T 🙃🙃🙃

I’m moving* in two days and have packed nothing, wish me luck! * - to a different unit in my building, but still

This attitude is why my Animal Crossing island has impeccable infrastructure.

This feels very unfair to science majors, whose courses have much less interesting titles :-)

It’s always so funny when the vet’s office asks what my dogs last name is, for she is a dog and therefore beyond such petty concerns.

I’m constantly amazed by the difference a good project manager can make to a project.

Nothing underlines the potential impact of monopolies like trying to change your internet service provider.

Ignoring my email did not make it go away, so I tried purposefully emptying my inbox, and an hour later I had more email than I started with.

You never realize how many subscriptions you have until you move.

I know this is not the point, but I finally googled was Cava is, and that looks absolutely delicious.

One of the most interesting parts of living in Tucson is the ideological diversity amongst bumper stickers on pick up trucks.

Top trending patterns on Ravelry right now:

This would be a really good moment for Democrats to start acting more like a political party than a Ponzi scheme.

I know literally nothing about them that I didn’t learn from one of their commercials, but the Husband and Wife Law Team seems like a genuinely adorable couple.

I really feel for whoever is going to have to come up with the inevitable American Girl doll based on this era