Y’all, let me just tell you that a good sandwich can solve a lot of problems

The great thing about emails is that you can pause before you send one and ask yourself, “Am I being a condescending asshat?” and if the answer is yes, you can rewrite the email!!! Oh wowwww!!!!!

Went in for my annual wellness exam and left feeling like I needed another hour because it turns out chronic illness fucks shit up!!!!!

It has been another hard week filled with emergency vet visits and no sleep, but while dealing with all of that I have been lurking here and finding a lot of humor and comfort in the HMJ corner of Blueskee. Very thankful to have found y’all and gotten to know some of you 💜

Forever screaming from the rooftops that if universities would actually invest in their libraries they would be able to hire catalogers with diverse areas of specialization and then we wouldn’t need AI to tackle the backlog of uncataloged materials BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE ACTUAL CATALOGERS

should I buy myself a little treat

Thank you for your recs, y’all!! I’m excited to start working my way through them when I’m back at it tomorrow!

Dear HMJ chat: what music or podcasts do you listen to while you’re at work? I have been on the same rotation of a few things for a while now and would like to switch things up!

It is almost 9:00pm and dark as hell outside, but my !wife and I just waged war (sprayed repellant, set traps) against the ants outside because finding 3 inside is 3 too many!!!!!!! We will NOT have a repeat of the February invasion!!!!!!!!!!! 🚫🐜🪦

Today is a day where I think everyone is mad at me and isn’t that just so fun ☺️

A gem from a pamphlet I’m cataloging, written by a Protestant dissenter in 17th c. England appealing his arrest: “My prayer to Almighty God is, that he would be graciously pleased to take you into his Merciful Arms, and shake you over Hell.” May god shake your enemies over hell, chat!!!

Hey so what the fuck is the deal with this scent name

“You’re never going to think about breakfast the same way after you try these breakfast brownies! Babes, you’ve literally just made a frittata???

I have just learned the Josie and the Pussycats (2001) soundtrack has been issued on gorgeous pink/violet vinyl with a bonus 7” with DuJour’s songs!!! Happy Friday!!!!!!!

Hello, I am putting my hat into the ring of sending people (potentially poorly crafted) handmade holiday cards. Please send me your address if you’d like one! ✨

The Bay Area today with our projected 1/4 inch of rain

I have on my calendar that there are free bagels at work this morning because I got an email on Monday telling me so. But now I cannot find that email and no one knows what I’m talking about so I am just living in my bagel fever dream, bagel-less

Listening to Everybody Scream on vinyl for the first time and

sometimes I really want to tell y’all something but then you’d be able to dox the hell out of me and I don’t want that, so just pretend you’re outraged on my behalf

My !wife and I just made these superb rice crispy treats that have pretzels, peanuts, and semisweet chocolate mixed in. We swapped the prescribed toffee bits for butterscotch chips because it’s what we could find, and you know what? DELIGHTFUL! Please enjoy the gift recipe pals 🎁

My bus was cancelled, but you know what? I’m gonna get myself a little breakfast burrito, a little seasonal coffee, I’m gonna go to the stream for the first time in a week, and then I’m gonna lock in and be anxious about writing my self-evaluation ✨🌈🤸‍♀️ just as a little treat 😌

First day back at work post-cat crisis and I am: 1) so anxious about leaving my cat 2) so tired of telling coworkers about what happened* 3) so tired of blueskii randos liking my post about her *I appreciate their concern but recounting what we’ve been through is emotionally A LOT

tw: animal illness Since Saturday night I have been to the emergency vet with my cat thrice because she stopped eating. Yesterday was our first full day back at home and she ate all of her wet food from last night. I’m just so emotional about this now empty can of wet food. Anyway, here’s my girl.

Realized I am heading to the Mission and didn’t think to build in time to get pupusas and I truly cannot describe the level of disappointment I feel in myself rn

First time in my whole life that I’ve lived somewhere where I’ve gotten trick or treaters, and while there weren’t a ton, it was still heartwarming and so fun to hand out candy and gush over costumes 🖤✨🎃

EVERYBODY SCREAM IS OUT ✨

Chat, last night I met someone who believes in earnest the upcoming Wuthering Heights movie will be great and I fear I am still irrationally vexed by this

When someone asks how I’m spending my weekend

I swear to god if this breaks HMJ chatter containment I’m gonna lose it, but WHY do we insist on perpetuating the social construct that is money? Money is fake!!!!!!!! It causes nothing but problems!!! Let me make you JAM in exchange for goods and services!!!

Feeling the dread & fury settling into my bones in a way that’s very unique to this point in time. I am afraid for the Bay Area, but we are a steadfast and resilient bunch and I am trying to hold onto that

Divas, when the only thing holding you together is the promise of a good lunch and the lunch is disappointing? It’s time to go home and lay on the floor

Today’s the day I am presenting at my high school’s career fair and I am Nervous!!!! But the desire to influence teenagers to pursue librarianship, be kind humans, and not be too hard on themselves is winning!!!

I have had a migraine for what truly feels like almost 3 days now, but I need to finish sewing this skirt so I ✨GET✨ to do knife pleats at 9:45pm

Happy Friday!!! I saw this beautiful flower on my walk to the bus this morning and I thought you would like it!

will be late to the stream because I am going to treat myself to an expensive bagel I cannot afford but I am nauseous and need carbs ✨

In the waiting room for an appointment with a doc I haven’t seen before, here to talk about shortness of breath, feeling anxious they’re going to say, “it’s just anxiety” (it’s not!!!) like they have before which is making my breathing worse

Relative humidity in the Bay Area is typically around 80%, so we bought a dehumidifier to help mitigate some damp in our home. We are down to 52% RH and I feel I may actually shrivel up and turn to dust. Y’all can have whatever isn’t already willed to my wife and cats

Harvest Time Cardigan is a balm to my soul!!!!

Unfortunately, whenever it raining (like now) or hailing I do just think of this and say to myself, “Jeffrey, it’s hailllllling.” youtu.be/XU4pPvHLIwc

I’ve been doing a training with the Library of Congress that now is just on hold until the government shitdown ends which means my certification is also indefinitely on hold. I’m fine, I swear!!!

I’m just a girl, standing in front of her insurance provider, asking for a vestibular therapist who isn’t over an hour away

Dear chat: I missed the stream this morning which means I missed Y’ALL! How are you? How was your weekend? I hope you were nice to yourself today, or else!!!!

Really wish I could take my cat through the McDonald’s drive-thru and get her a McFlurry as a peace offering for doing annual bloodwork at the vet

screaming. crying. throwing up. healing my inner child.

Have I been holding off on buying things because I’m trying to rebuild my savings? Yes. Am I considering buying tickets to see MCR at the Hollywood Bowl and subsequently planning a trip to LA for it? Also yes. 💸💸💸

Coworker said my lunch smelled weird so I’m just over here eating my sukiyaki and watching the HMJ stream like

This is what happens when y’all go to tiktok instead of etsy

People are really out here thinking I’m trying to be *~different~* by not liking sunny, hot weather but I’m like, when Miss Cold and Miss Rain tango they have never made me sweat and generally hate being alive!!!! (this message is brought to you by it being 90° today)

Man, today ain’t it

Dear Chat: I’m presenting at my high school’s career fair on being a rare book cataloguer. I can’t bring books in to show because they’re worth more than my life. What sorts of questions might you have for me? Would you find printed photos interesting? It’s a conversational format, no PowerPoint.