forgot that my bsky algorithm is really just science (mostly public health) + environment (cue: bird and tree pics) and this is surprisingly refreshing 😭

reading story of your life and it literally rewired my brain….ted chiang is a miracle and I think scifi books are the only time when I like physics 💀

I think I am going to try to start a creative writing club (with a friend) next year because there is surprisingly none geared towards non-english/lit majors OR are solely lit mag based…..there are so many ways this could go wrong though. oops.

I need more books about dragons. like who cares about constructing richly layered characters and building an intricate magical system just give me DRAGONS. where did all the books about dragons go.

this fr. also I am trying to write a paper about this and I can’t find enough citations…people need to produce research so undergrads can have sufficient citations for their papers :( (jk)

wishing composers understood that flute/picc parts in orchestral could be used as “themes” and as a lyrical melody or beautiful calls instead of just repeated fast notes and/or the highest possible notes possible in music

reached a new level of pettiness and added this to my room door decor…

my (former) research mentor made such a funny joke through email when I was asking her for like a ridiculous fifth rec…goddamn it I’m having a moment where I miss her so much lol

went on a lil trip down main street and ended up with a loaf of bread, a bag of soil, and a book of poems in retrospect this is probably one of the strangest combo of things bought in one trip

so I have started liking coffee despite my body clearly becoming 10x hyper and jittery with caffeine…such a fascinating phenomenon when my mind and body doesn’t agree

my local Home Depot keeping cats (one gorgeous black one with a white tail tip and a cute grey fluffy one) has been the best discovery this new year…the way there’s cat bowls of food and water laid out in the greenhouse area for them omg

MICHIGAN STUFFS BAMA ON 4TH AND GOAL! THE WOLVERINES WIN THE ROSE BOWL IN OT!!

could never have imagined a day where i picked up a book by brandon sanderson inspired by an anime and also Your Name omg

myyearinbooks.com makes everything so pretty instead of goodreads wrapped lol

finished 3-body and the chinese version was SO good. it was like an audiobook but in visual book form (atrociously slow but still so good). time to wait for the netflix version to come out.

the new percy jackson series gives me such nostalgia…this was like my middle school obsession

literally had a whole dream about a blueberry cider donut…living in the midwest has altered my brain chemistry

trying to take a christmas photo with my dog involves: - playtime?? (*runs to find a toy* - what are ornaments - tree is tallll…kinda scary - she lied there’s no food - let me show my butt - woah there’s mom *starts jumping on her* - wow there’s a face *lick lick* conclusion: photos are impossible

three-body is making me realize how absolutely horrendous I am at physics today’s google search history: “why does a tennis ball and a bowling ball hit the ground at the same time”

Good morning #episky #publichealth #medsky #pedsky #academicsky #womeninSTEM 🧪 Credit: @xkcd.com

Missouri HB.1739 contains provisions for the immediate dismissal and 4 year suspension from employment for any nurse, teacher or social worker who calls a student a name other than that which is on their school registration forms, or fails to report a non-cis identity. legiscan.com/MO/bill/HB17...

realistically I know internships do not determine my future, but then I get too invested after a particularly great interview for something I really wanted and end up feeling quite defeated by one more rejection after so many (like hi! I would love to work in public health! please take me 🥹)

Day 838382 of being mistaken as a plastic surgeon at this rate I could have: - renewed or resigned her privileges at the hospital (which is literally her position??) - signed off on her intern’s surgical assessment (3 times) - handled the confidential materials of 500+ medical applicants

also has anyone heard of or read the 3-body problem? currently starting the series Three-Body based on that sci-fi book by liu cixin - there’s a huge netflix adaptation coming out next year but this chinese one already came out this year

forgot that my deductible resets! which means that my rescheduled lab test for jan is gonna cost an insane amount (as opposed to this year where I have somehow managed to hit my deductible) trying not to panick…I hate the healthcare system so much

attaching my review on here but this book was so amazing…the character work and relationships were so wonderfully done. also the exploration of queerness in a fantasy setting !!!!!! was SO good

feeling like an idiot at 12 am realizing I failed to follow the instructions before this lab test (in my defense wdym you put for a med “hold for 36 hrs” & then several rows down in the same table for the SAME med name “hold for 48 hrs”)…anyways feeling VERY embarrassed as a public health student 💀

goodreads adding romantasy as a separate category in goodreads choice awards (which is kinda a joke anyways) but is kinda funny bc it’s probably to prevent popular romance authors like SJM from auto winning, tho she doesn’t have a book this year…

this is like…the 4th time someone has mistaken me as the plastic surgeon jessica at umich (similar emails) but an HR person shared with me a folder with 155 applications from medical residents with literally every piece of confidential info you can think of 💀

so apparently my IgE level is 1,000+??? and the normal levels are 1-100. so um. (not sure about the sensitivity/ specificity of allergen blood tests though!)

If I use garamond instead of Times New Roman I wonder if I will have points taken off…..garamond >>> Times New Roman for English essays

god louise gluck’s poems about nature are some of my favorites- here is a particularly gorgeous one. saddened by the news of her passing today.

happy mid autumn festival :) 🥮

turning 20 soon and sometimes I feel like I have all the time in the world and then sometimes I just want to like…know... like do I want to teach? do I want to do research….do I want to Consult …will I ever be able to write a book…like WHERE WILL I BE

I feel like I am so easily distracted in class. today it was the lights in the school of public health. like why do they hang like that

shoutout to the poor jumpseeds growing in argo park at this time as they undergo me poking and prodding at them because I wanted to see the seeds jump 😭

hibiscus (hibiscus hybrid??) is so gorgeous…entering a phase where I attempt to find out what I have been consuming and eating and drinking all my life

God I love ann arbor’s farmer market…the beet hummus has my heart and soul

Don’t Call Us Dead was my first!ever poetry book i got in hs before i even started writing, & Homie is a book i got as a gift from my friends for my bday a few months into starting to write poetry again in college getting to see danez smith perform & have Homie signed today & meet them…holy shit

wrote this for the cafe shapiro anthology several months back… thinking about the role of poetics in capturing history (and also the reductiveness of that process?)

seek is like pokemon go but with nature. like a nature-go. and applogies to all the people campus who had to walk around me standing awkwardly in the middle of the street to take pictures of random trees and flowers

first time doing an audio recording of my (longest ever) poem “Aerophobia, or the fear of flying” - this was so fun! here’s a sneak peak, check my recording & the whole poem out alongside some other really wonderful pieces at www.passengersjournal.com/volume-4-iss...

Men are always like “and this is my lovely wife Jessica” but I’m sure she would far prefer “this is the terror of the forest, Jessica. The trembling moonlight is her cloak, ravens fetch her garlands made from her enemies’ teeth”.

anyone who thinks dogs can’t smile is wrong because here is my mom’s dog happily smiling when he hears my mom is taking him on a WALK!!

throwback to an intensive (but cool) week of doing noise pollution sampling in illinois because now I can’t help thinking about the noise levels of my train as I wait for the caltrain today

saw that @havehashad.com made it here and wanted to share my most recently published poem there!! most nerdy and fun thing i’ve ever written (anyways this whole journal is really cool, highly recommend checking the site out)

when cali is red but its because of the sunset and not wildfires 😍