I like all the off-season trivia games the Jet Lag podcast plays, but I'm not sure I've laughed harder at anything than I did at the trivia questions Ben wrote while high on painkillers

listening to the jet lag podcast describes a quintessential rural Japan experience: no one at the hotel speaks English, they find a random person to translate, & the hotel staff is so concerned about Sam & Ben that in the morning the manager insists on personally driving them to the train station

I have a list of things I can get on sale this week (literally 2 things that I decided a month ago, and one of them I have now bought) and yarn is NOT ON THE LIST. I need whatever the knitter's equivalent of holy water and a cross is for this hedgehog fibre sale. get away from me! I don't need you!!

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

the problem is I already have two books out from the library and I'm about to place a hold/save for later about 300 more

not spoilery at all for Knives Out Wake Up Dead Man, but it was very funny seeing it with @jtak.bsky.social because between him and me we collectively know less than nothing about Christianity and Catholicism so our whole subway ride home was just going "do you think [thing] was real????"

the best part of this four hour Defunctland is the running gag about WHY DO ALL THE PUPPETS FLIRT. for real though, who thought that was a good idea, gross.

oh sure, so /I/ have to participate in capitalism but /she/ gets a cozy little house to nap in all day

my spoiler free review of Wake Up Dead Man knives out is: there is going to be a LOT of fic

I feel medium better today but I haven’t done anything because I’m not allowed to

"I'm not actually sick!!!" I insist as I look around at my bedroom, which is current knee-deep in tissues and empty tea cups. I feel better enough to day to stay awake long enough to take a shower, which I'm sure everyone around me is very grateful for.

a whole new reason to hate AI youtu.be/IgEmsKtdsRs?...

stayed awake long enough for Ben's spectacular second run in hide and seek japan and now I am going back to bed

Without downloading any pics what’s it like dating you? You need to confirm with @mistresscurvy.bsky.social but I assume it’s some combination of these:

felt awful so I left work early yesterday to go to bed. slept straight through more or less until this morning, got up, had a coffee, and guess what. no. absolutely not. I’m back in bed with the cats.

I can't believe I woke up to Trump flirting with my mayor

sometimes you wake up to the most affirming and hopeful text you've ever gotten???? hang in there, you truly never know who is watching or what they might be noticing. 😭 ❤️

“if you’ve had this space heater the whole time WHY did you just take it out for me to curl up in front of it NOW.”

ohhhhhh jet lag hide and seek 2: japan is so good, it's SOOOO good, what a good season

I just remembered the Japanese word I was looking for during that conversation this morning. only eight and a half hours late.

When I visited Japan last year, I loved being a tourist. I tried to take the tourist home with me to NYC, where I've lived for nearly 20 years. It turns out even my home block is full of beauty and wonder when you look at it with fresh eyes!

SKILL ISSUE

not interested in a kennedy heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a pelosi heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a cuomo heir for the same reason i’m not interested in a clinton heir for the same reason i’m not inter

the real trick of learning a foreign language and then actually speaking it with native speakers is accepting in your heart that you ARE gonna fuck up and sound dumb and that's fine

listen I don't mind reading a book that's so obviously just retooled fanfiction that I've never read the pairing but named it immediately, but I pls do not take me down "he is forced to rape her" road to "she is forced to get pregnant" swamp, I don't like it there, I'm not going

"Stassi is hosting The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives reunion "

if you watch any season of jet lag where they visit Japan with me you will hear about how "I used to live near Sendai, what are they doing there, I used to get a strawberry mochi treat every time I went through there, WHY ARE THEY IN* MY CITY" a minimum of three times, maybe 10 or 15 times

I'm trying to navigate the US medical system to get to the right doctor, which involves sooo many phone calls. I'm signed up for a race this weekend. I'm seeing two movies this weekend. I need to plan for hosting Thanksgiving. I joined JFREJ. And I'm signing myself up for 1:1 Japanese classes.

cat woke me up and I was annoyed but thought AT LEAST it’s Friday. a few minutes later I realized no, it’s Thursday but that’s fine. …..an hour later I’m here to tell you it is Wednesday, my dudes.

We love you, Brad

"This appointment can't be cancelled online. Please call our office." automated robot phone lady: "This appointment can't be cancelled. Can I help you with anything else?"

the part in any modern fantasy novel where they off-handedly mention “since the Calamity many millennia ago—“ and you sigh as you realize it was Earth all along

ticketmaster sucks for so many reasons but I still got tickets to see NADDPODD rescue the Bon Freres in April, HA

The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us

it's so funny to look up a kanji that's been killing me, it's just impossible to remember or learn, and find out it's part of the 2nd grade curriculum in Japan

DeltaRune is not a game I'm gonna play, but I'm watching a play-through and god I did laugh VERY HARD at "Kris, Get The Banana" in chapter 2.

listening to the jet lag podcast about tag 3 and they keep discussing "Treviso" and I KNOW they mean the one in Italy not the one in Dragon Age but like........ hide and seek Minrathous when

monday morning is about better with coffee and a slice of chocolate babka

finally getting to Hide and Seek Switzerland (a DELIGHT of a season) so I can tell @mistresscurvy.bsky.social that I bought the home hide and seek game "for me" which is to say, for me but for her bc also she is gonna like looking at challenges and rules SO MUCH ❤️

I'm reading a book on how to improve language learning and retention and I have a bunch of quibbles but I am furious to report that changing my flashcards to the recommended format has made them much much easier to learn. yes this is what I do for fun shh

at 4am Jinx decided no one has ever loved him and started batting at my hands to get petted. when I told him to go away he started knocking everything off my bedside table (and then hiding under my bed). he is not cat off the day.

Sam and Ben together during jet lag tag or hide and seek is such an underrated comedy duo, real "wait... what??" vibes going both ways, a delight

went to pilates last night because my back has been hurting, but I think that was actually overcorrecting because this morning my back was like "nope!!!" and I had to turn my long run into a short walk. as @mistresscurvy.bsky.social said, "goldilocks-ass body." what do you WANT????

i prefer being cat-called to being followed down the block being asked why i don’t allow jesus into my heart

my first attempt at going to a pilates class after work since the time change. leaving the house even though it’s sooooo dark???? that’s crazy work.

all I'm saying is it would make my life a little easier if fewer Japanese grammar points relied on double negatives

delighted to report that the new hbomb video features like 10 minutes on why robert bork sucks because he sucks soooooo baaaaaaaad

my gauge isn't particularly off, but I'm ready to split for sleeves when the pattern says I should still have one whole 12-row pattern repeat left to do. Gonna cast on a few extra stitches but this looks basically right to me....

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

when I get the "your item has shipped" message I do them the courtesy of waiting until the next day to check it, because I know that just means the label was printed out. How do we feel about it still saying "label created" THREE DAYS LATER, though, because I'm getting crabby.