a real issue with being a worrier AND a history teacher is that every allegedly minor ache and pain and sniffle pops up in my brain with a list of people who died of something similar.

straight to jail this is a post about the men of love is blind

WAIT KRISTI NOEM OUT????? hahahahahahahahaha

always a delight when I get to tell someone why the vanderpump restaurant is called SUR

my favorite spam emails and texts are the ones that think my name is Bindley. I’ve been getting them for years and I always laugh.

I am ready to be back in NYC

my friends the jet lags knew I would not make it through this week (week long conference with breakfast lunch and dinner all with coworkers) without them. thank you to the good boys of jet lag.

hanging in there report: doing my best to hang in there

idc if it’s gauche this comment made my whole week and I hope this person has a wonderful month ❤️❤️

I am in a local taxi that insisted on taking me to stop by an ATM to get cash to pay. it’s so nostalgic that i’m not even mad about it.

there’s also an animated movie version I used to show in class. really good stuff.

yesterday: windows open, no coat required, allllmost spring weather?? today: snow

yes I bought a couple of books in Japanese, and yes I already had a couple of unread books at home, but I do that with English books, too! It's a sign of my increasing fluency!!!

wait, hang on, a new volume of "the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all" just dropped??? like, JUST dropped? am I about to jump on a subway down to Kinokuniya to pick it up????? I might be!

not to still be steamed about love is blind when *gestures at the world* BUT as a person who regularly goes to pilates classes, pilates bodies come in a all different shapes!! I have skinny instructors and fat instructors and curvy instructors and all of them could and should kick his ass!!!!!!

I got a free sample of a perfume and while the manufacturer says it smells like "pear blossoms, peony and vanilla" I am here to tell you it smells like Love's Baby Soft But For Adults This Time

yessss Stuart Flophouse recommending the Tainted Cup. His taste is so good!!!!!

freshman in college, the Stargate SG-1 Heliopolis archive.

mamdani’s rizz is simply unimaginable. off the charts. life changing.

I got this book used from the bookstore for cheap, which was awesome, and then I was like "oooh I wonder what books I could sell back to them, and then I could get MORE used books in return--" and then I realized I was inventing libraries.

love is blind update: watching drunk men try to explain why they are right, actually, is consistently one of the most embarrassing things in the world

why don’t cats have any bones. you’re telling me this is a comfy way to nap??

spending this week reading a real door stopper of a fantasy novel which is exactly the vibe I needed, it turns out

Keya is an absolute queen!!!!!! www.usmagazine.com/entertainmen...

snowing again 😭

going to the gym to run on a treadmill after work, in the snowy dark, after reading a chapter of my book on the comfy couch, is perhaps the most heroic I’ve ever been

the new sweater has been approved by the ruling committee.

he saw his shot and he TOOK IT

finished the fernline sweater by Joanna Ang. this little diva decided he should be the real star.

just realized I had been confusing 時 (time) and 詩 (poem) all chapter, and suddenly this story makes a LOT more sense. I spent a lonnnng time looking at the sentence "You put time in an envelope for a boy? It's like a song, right?" like

morning snow report: boy that sure is some snow

the only emergency alert I want is when it happens so I know to start dancing, jesus christ my nerves did not need that THANK YOU

"Roads and bridges close at 9pm until noon on Monday" no????? I hate this??????

I can’t believe it’s already started snowing, i thought I had this morning!!

@dankmccoy.bsky.social long-time listener and history teacher here, reporting that you are correct: Amadeus absolutely kills with high school students. I was worried the first time but it turns out hating transcends time and culture. My students in the Bronx LOVED it and couldn't get enough.

everyone in NYC is super duper excited about the weather this weekend

where is everyone getting these giant 70s librarian glasses, I want them, why don't I see them anywhere I shop (it's because I am cheap)

treating myself to hating the men on Love is Blind as a little treat

absolutely crashed out yesterday about not being able to travel this fall but my sister reminded me that I can always go to the snack zone baybeeeeeeee

I'm always so resentful when fresh air, sunshine, and exercise does in fact make me feel better

I know that it's not true that life is endless despair, and it's not true that everyone gets good things except me, and it's not true that I need to quit my job and run away to the sea it's just February. I know this.

the problem with watching so many Japanese dramas is I want to go everywhere I see in the show. Like, look at this place! IT'S GORGEOUS, I gotta go. trip.numazukanko.jp

this part of Dave Holmes's Esquire essay on the RFK jr /Kid Rock working-out-in-their-jeans video made me laugh out loud, please treat yourself

this little man cried ALL NIGHT because he was so lonely look how he suffers. what a terrible life.

some weeks I feel great at speaking Japanese, and some weeks absolutely nothing pops into my brain and I end up saying the first letter of words I half-remember and then staring into space until the teacher takes a guess at what I might mean. today was one of those second ones.

@mistresscurvy.bsky.social showed me the olympics hockey gold medal match, and then I showed her jet lag tag 3. a nice mutual sharing of sports. ❤️

I have a coworker I dislike; I think he is a dumb, frustrating, selfish asshole. and you can tell this because my email and text replies to him are unrelentingly chirpy and friendly. if you get an "Of course! no problem :)" from me at work it means I hate you.

"There's a new status hand soap in town" oh my god, congratulations, you've found the thing I am least interested in in the whole entire world

I sent in this payment and the doctor called me to decline it and tell me I don’t owe them $500. I didn’t even know they COULD do that.

I made the decision not to mention it on here because I was so fucking sad thinking about the eagle alone on the ice crying for help but since it turned out okay: hey!! I saw that eagle yesterday!!!