the feeling where you're in such a bad mood that you're looking forward to the gym to work it out but also worried that you're going to go too hard because you're so pissy and then injure yourself.

okay yeah there are times when i'm a rule-follower and this is one of those times.

asking me for a meeting 15 minutes after I arrive to the office is illegal, actually, especially when I have an hour worth of regular morning routine required items I must do daily first thing in the morning.

@naomialderman.bsky.social in celebration of the best app in fitness being back, wearing this for tonight’s workout— little older, little wiser, but it still fits!

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Wound up moving last night’s run to this morning and god do I hate peeling myself out of bed to go put in the miles but also there’s about 3-5 seconds after I’m done where I feel like I could fight god. Jury’s still out on whether it makes up for the lost warm cozy time.

For the Badge, my soccer TTRPG, is finally available! I've just released an Ashcan-Demo on Itch. Play out the drama of an athlete juggling the burdens of life both on and off the pitch, just like Ted Lasso! Make your very own club with a unique history! sociable-turtle-games.itch.io/for-the-badg...

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

Happy Earth Day.

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

Lock the fuck in, Gumshoes. Carmen Sandiego stole a priceless wax pressing of "One of These Nights" by the Eagles. You've got to stop her before she travels back in time to 149 BC Carthage and trades it to Scipio Africanus the Younger for a kilo of the good shit. *Rockapella bops on stage*

When I was a kid mom used to bribe me with a cinnamon roll afterwards if I would go out with her for a run on Ashland in the mornings. Now I’m an adult and have just come in from a run and a swim and wheremst the fuck is someone with my cinnamon roll? 🥺

Hahaha employer just handed me an arbitration agreement years after I was hired and asked me to sign and return it before the end of the day. I think the fuck not.

Crying at work at 9:48 am… happy fucking Friday

first day of regularly scheduled weekly standups at work. aka a meeting for sake of having a meeting. I give it three thursdays before I snap on someone.

Will @kenwhite.bsky.social be in attendance? www.mlb.com/amp/news/whi...

Crying into your steering wheel is the sign of a healthy society, actually.

The best part about cooking Easter dinner (despite not really celebrating said holiday other than as an excuse to make a ham) is the fantastic omelette I get to make myself the next day.

Eminem is my nephew by marriage.

You guys will never guess what I’m rewatching now

Before the Season Ends is UPDATED AND SHINY AND NEW AGAIN, with Playtest Edition v2 available now! It's BETTER! It's SMOOTHER! It's STRONGER! And I talk about HOW in the dev log! jen-adcock15.itch.io/before-the-s...

Hey, just to ruin your day, as part of the 40th anniversary of Phantom (musical), ALW's company has commissioned a YA romantasy-adjacent retelling of the musical's story that "allows Christine to tell her story" as though that is not *precisely what the musical is*

Lately it's the "authentic" (it might have been at one time, but is now many decades and midwest taste palates removed from being so) Mexican restaurant I went to with my friends in high school. I just want some beefy cheese dip. 😭

THE BOOK OPENS SOLAR ECLIPSE UMPIRES' EYES TURN WHITE

The utter certainty that a "just checking in" text is actually a prelude to a "hey can you completely uproot your life for a few weeks" and the sheer volume of willpower it's taking to type a reply and not just leave it on read, because you can't not answer.

> Go to USITT > Stop by booth of place I’ve admired from afar > 75 year old woman kindly threatens to drag my imposter syndrome into the woods and shoot it > Midlife crisis about potential career change?

why am I, the youngest child in my family, the one who knows how to order death certificates, when the REGISTERED NURSE THIRTY YEARS MY SENIOR has no clue?

I absolutely think this is the key element in deciding to separate art and artist. Shakespeare was probably one kind of asshole or another but buying the complete works doesn’t allow him or his heirs to do more damage. It’s a critical distinction between censorship and boycott.

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

Fully outing my hometown: starting at an extremely early age in the gifted program, the local psychiatric museum in an old "hospital" that had HORRIFYING displays of early mental health "treatments" and shadowboxes of things patients had swallowed. That or the Truman Presidential Library.

IDK who needs to know this, but... When you call one of Senator Adam Schiff's local CA offices and he starts droning on, wait until he says "I got a few options for ya" and hit THREE. That transfers you to speak to a live human being instantly. (You might be put on hold, ofc). Just press 3.

current state of emotional dysregulation: watching the Mr. Rogers crayon factory video to self-soothe. pbskids.org/videos/watch...

always going to be a good day when the celebrity tabloid media outlet that i will not mention by name has somehow gotten hold of my phone number. 😐

At what point can I put “excellent at performing capitalism during times of both national and personal crisis” on my resume because holy fuck I sure am still at work today

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Convinced that this month is going to consist of nothing but brief periods of having no option but to perform normal human functions of my normal life interspersed with the inability to do anything else other than stare into middle distance wondering when shit got so fucked.

Now That’s What I Call ADHD 🎶🔂

(Personal, not political.) Hm! Shit’s fucked!

I’ve never before understood why people make the mistake of not finishing antibiotics, but whew do I get it now. I have only had the starter dose of antibiotics and the fistful of prednisone that you take day 1 and compared to how I’ve felt with this cold for the last week I think I could fight god.

Dear neighbors that somehow still have a fireworks stash at the end of February: if you’re shooting something that big off at 10pm, you better be alerting me to news that will make me want to dance in the street. Otherwise save it for the next holiday.

Eve: Should I eat this fruit even though God told us not to Serpent: It isn't just a fruit — it's a future. You're determining your own path. You've got this! Eve: God's really mad, I shouldn't have eaten it Serpent: You're right! That one's on me. I'm only an AI model and can make mistakes,

I just explained step by step to someone how to check if two containers of different shapes were the same volume, and she went and did so, and they were, and she then came back to me and said, "well, I still think the tall one just holds more." Ma'am. MA'AM. Stop the world, I want to get off.

I post about books and movies and random passing thoughts a lot more than I post about my games because it's easier but sometimes I kick myself like "fuck I gotta tell people about my games! my good games!" I make "tabletop roleplaying games" and they're good okay obligation met jen-adcock15.itch.io

Forget precheck, airports should have an “I’ve done this before”/“I have a modicum of awareness and listening skills” tsa line. At the end of the line, there will be a big trash can of baseball bats, and if you get in that line and it turns out you lied, the next 10 passengers get one swing each.

Help stop the misguided attempt to license bikes in CA, it will only lead to making it more difficult for people to adopt bikes. We don’t need new laws, we need the existing classifications of e-bikes to be properly enforced. bikeeastbay.org/say-no-to-ma...!

Always inspiring to see @neapresident.bsky.social speak. So humbling to be sitting in a room of exceptional educators at the @theneafoundation.bsky.social #NEAFGALA

Stopped by and saw a few old friends earlier. Might have cried. (Cried a lot.)

“Bad” news everyone! I have been explicitly barred from coming to my Evil Stepmother’s funeral. I don’t know why she had to call and tell me that during dinner, but whatever makes her happy. It makes me happy that she’s contemplating her mortality, I guess.