Me, going for a walk on a work from home day: Time change into my outside sweatpants!

I am doing just a bit of reminiscing on the internet tonight (should be writing, oh well) and I still cannot let go of the fact that I think someone used my blog title for a book title. It's silly and meaningless...but I had this blog since 2011. lab-girl-writes.blogspot.com/p/about.html

Y'all I just have to say I don't think there's a better feeling than PREORDERING A FRIEND'S NOVEL. I hope I get to do this again and again and again and again forever and ever and ever for ALL MY FRIENDS www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796407...

Please next time I complain about my job someone remind me that I can walk to Wilson Library, make a special collections request, and revisit a poem that I haven’t thought of in years, and couldn’t find anywhere else.

Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

I need to drop everything and write a short story about a family that gives up their phones and then develops superpowers. My family is doing a no-screens challenge, and my husband is talking about renovating the bathroom and the teen took a book to school. WHO ARE WE?

I heard "there's artificial intelligence, and there's actual intelligence" and almost choked to death on this cough drop

Godspeed to all the kids with AP Bio homework requiring them to use blast who don’t have a mom with a PhD in genetics to help them. Related, how is blast still just as slow as it was 10 years ago

has anyone correctly compiled a manuscript from scrivener the first time because if so I don't believe you

Me driving through campus this morning: aww it’s moving day how sweet. Me 10 minutes later realizing I work next to a dorm and everyone is parking in my lot: ohhhhh not cute.

William Carlos Williams if he was in an open marriage:

This story has everything! Colorful characters (a woman who lived in a child's playhouse paying rent to the 8yo who owned it), a who's who of Chapel Hill writers and foodies, GHOSTS? A PODCAST?? What more could you even ask for?

Help us record firefly flashes! 👇🙏

Kind of like Tom Holland's lip sync battle, I will always repost a picture of my dad with his funny little paperclips.

Hooooly shit. We've created a fake bullshit artist. No wonder human bullshit artists love it.

You can listen to a story that Brandon tells!!

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

A little reader confession: I don't read anything in italics in a book. Epigraphs, poems, little italicized blurbs before new chapters, they will not be read by me. I've never read the Lord of the Rings but if I did, would not be reading all those songs!

Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears. They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets. They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data. They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light. We will not lay down and take this.

I want them to bring back blue books because these were my favorite things to write in while I was in college. Bring these back and you will know where to find me during exam time!

The way I SCREAMED A SCREAM upon reading scanned lines of prose. This made my poet-heart so happy, and is also proof that time heals all wounds (thousands of lines of AP Latin scansion homework.) I read this short story then listened to the podcast and then read the story out loud to myself again.

Sometimes my husband and I try to out 90s each other, and this morning I could only name 3/5 of the Space Jam basketball players but I at least knew how tall Muggsy Bogues is. (Thanks 6th grade health class??)

I had a creative writing professor in college who when he found out I had a kid gave me some wonderful advice about waking up early in the morning to write, which I have spent 17 years ignoring, and now I have realized that he was probably right and I need to become a morning person.

You in the Triangle area and thinking about standing up for science? Come to my beloved 2nd workplace and make a sign 😊🍻 supplies provided! You can leave a sign w me and i can bring it up to DC! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Stay in school, kids!

What a time to be a data archivist