People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. -Haruki Murakami, writer (b. 12 Jan 1949)

“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together; there is something U must always remember. U are braver than U believe, stronger than U seem, & smarter than U think.The most important thing is, even if we're apart, 'll always be w U.”Winnie the Pooh, by A.A. Milne

Snow day! Back to sleep. ❄️

The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. -Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)

Miss Piggy FTW

No contract, no coffee. We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.

Cómo olvidar tu sonrisa. Cómo olvidar tus miradas. Cómo olvidar que rezaba Para que no te marcharas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrj...

Maybe , like, drop the "United" part for the next four years...

THE GROCERY STORE is a great time to speak loudly on your phone.

8pm me is always setting alarms 5am me can't handle.

I'm worried my students are gonna report me to PETA for beating a dead horse.

Sometimes the line between love and hate turns out to be chalk.

When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, "I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with." -Will Rogers, humorist (4 Nov 1879-1935)

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972)

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams, 2nd US president (30 Oct 1735-1826)

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo. -Bill Mauldin, editorial cartoonist (29 Oct 1921-2003)

Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world | Language | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

LIFE is NOT simply about FINDING your self. Life is also about CREATING your self--daily.

"MAN IS THE LAST RESORT--SO FREE a being that his right to be whatever he believes himself to be cannot be contested.”

HONESTY is the best disguise.

LIFE IS AN incandescently pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

*pointing to myself* wow! this did not age well.

The biggest issue with having to do work is that I don’t want to.

My day started so well, and then I got out of bed.

I feel like I’m living past my body’s expiration date.

They need to lower the retirement age. I’m tired now.

No better way for a child to learn how to spell than by having to save a man from hanging to death.

One thing that @amazon won't deliver, apparently: Democracy.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. -Brenda Ueland, journalist, editor, and writer (24 Oct 1891-1985)

In politics, being deceived is no excuse. -Leszek Kolakowski, philosopher (23 Oct 1927-2009)

I talk in my sleep, go figure. Not surprising, considering that I lecture all day while my students sleep, too...

OH, I'M SORRY...did my middle finger interrupt your sentence?

"Insert coffee to begin." ~my brain, every morning

BAD NEWS: 1 out of 3 salads is not a corndog.

I'm special (Special) So special (Special) I got have some of your attention, give it to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H6r...

I OFTEN wonder "how the fuck did I get this old?"

I HID UNDER the bed for so long I never realized I was the monster.

EVERY KISS BEGINS with "K," but so does every kidnapping. That's how words work people.

LIQUOR IS WATER in cursive.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: I shouted "I love you" at a cliff's edge, and it echoed back "I think of you as a friend."

"It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies. It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear. " ~Oscar Wilde

HANG ON! I'm busy being amazing.

CANCEL 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦? we can't even cancel print jobs.

IT’S OCTOBER, do what you want at night; ghosts don’t care.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another’s trouble, / Courage in your own. -Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)

The Suffix That Tells Us to Ruthlessly Optimize Everything - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/m...

"Display of superior knowledge is as great a vulgarity as display of superior wealth—greater, indeed.” H. W. Fowler, the Autocrat of English Usage | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"Display of superior knowledge is as great a vulgarity as display of superior wealth—greater, indeed.”

LOST & FOUND : "May I help you?" ME: "Did anyone turn in any abs?"