playing like a dragon and it is a bit surreal. the mall where I had my first job is an escape room.

watching the dynamics of my book play out in the worst possible way on an academic listserv for over 24 hours is horrific.

they are moving me to a biosimilar but it uses the same protein so I am hoping it is a smooth transition.

I've requested a vacation day to play like a dragon... because self-care is important and I am planning on focusing on mascot yakuza animal crossing.

currently knitting a weird thing until the next like a dragon game comes out. I don’t know how to describe it but it will be my ugly scarf. 🧶

void screams.

Knitting wisdom 🙃🧶

Today, because of the weather, I am having my first work from home day in my new role. Which means i set up my work from home space and now I am sad I am not hybrid because today has been very convenient and I like my wfh setup more than my office setup. For starters, the temperature is comfortable.

I desperately need today to be over already. (I woke up at 1:30AM)

Well. I fell in love with the thing I was knitting so my lacey scarf that makes me laugh is done many weeks ahead of schedule. Just need to bind off, clean up, and block it. 🧶

Thinking a lot about Paul Virilio lately. How right he was, unfortunately. www.frieze.com/article/how-...

My eyes have been bad again for the past few weeks and I am over it.

I cannot put into words how perfectly bad this movie was. I cannot recommend anyone watch it, but if the description speaks to you, you may want to.

I’ve cast on a new project that will take probably forever to knit so hopefully it will last for the month I am waiting for the new Like a Dragon to come out. 🧶

watching The Killing Tree: On Christmas Eve, a scorned widow casts an ancient spell to resurrect her executed husband. However, when the spell goes wrong, the husband is brought back as an evil Christmas tree, hell-bent on getting revenge on the one who caused his execution.

I made my own reversible hat (mine is all gradient yarn) with my replacement needles. Material really changes the speed of things. 🧶

Finished last night. I kept dropping stitches. The hat was knit twice because I didn't measure the gauge the first time. In the process of making this hat I broke a needle cable & learned I lost my magic loop needles in the move somehow. They've been replaced but arrived late. A mess but it's done 🧶

in my dream last night we were given a ton of food and there were lots of radishes. Someone announced that they didn't like radishes so I went on a monologue about why I love them and then I got all the radishes. It made me very happy. Then I woke up and there were no radishes at home.

Will I be productive during my last hour of my day? y/n

my political stance: the translation is racist. the journals stance: you have to quote exactly as it is. ugh. boo.

The joy of filling my office with functional things that make me happy.

“Penn faculty fear the donor who started the effort to oust Liz Magill is attempting to set the agenda for trustees: Marc Rowan, co-leads Wharton's board of advisors, is asking questions about instruction, faculty hiring, free speech and political orientation.”

I am doing a compliance training and in addition to having a module on empathy, they have a thing about showing staff appreciation based on the love languages crap and I think it is too late in the day for me to continue with this and get to sleep tonight. WTF!?

Omg. Work. I'm so happy.

One of the things I want folks to understand about the billionaires who forced the Penn pres to resign is they started all this before Oct 7 and among their complaints is that Penn “prioritizes DEI” is “too social justice focused” and is “unrecognizable” to what it looked like when they attended.

In other news, I am through with my forbidden shawl yarn project. I wish it hadn't made me hate the yarn. I am halfway through a reversable hat I started this weekend with yarn I love. Looking forward to zoom meetings today. 🧶

That dance of trying to determine at which point a new pain is something I need to tell my doctor about or something I need to learn to live with because it is nothing.

I’ve acquired a juicer for a first time in years because I love celery juice. That really is the reason. But I made orange juice today, with carrots, turmeric root, golden beets, mandarins and black pepper and it is *chefs kiss* It's effectively masked the carrot flavor.

I still very regularly think about the "Apocalypse Buffering" panel that @lifewinning.com brought @jadedid.bsky.social me, and @timmaughan.bsky.social together to do, and sometimes genuinely wonder if we punched a hole through the spacetime to get a bead on: afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=5168

"The Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University invites applications for a Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier II in Black Digital Geographies"

am I bad at writing? I feel like I shouldn't do it because why are copyedits. and why do they never end?

A small thing: Previous employer would not let us get business cards as a tacit way to remind us we shouldn't be speaking with people. Guess who got business cards delivered today?

Join us on Wed 6th at 17.30GMT for Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution with Pat Hudson In London or on Zoom all are welcome at supper afterwards. www.history.ac.uk/seminars/bri...

I gave into the coffee bro hype and purchased a aeropress. I'm not feeling it tbh. the amount of work people do to make sure it is good (weighing/timings/temp control/etc) feels like more than I can do on days like today when I just want a coffee quickly... so maybe nespresso comes to work again.

I have been stressed for reasons and so my hands have been not working so I am still knitting this basic shawl with the yarn from the banned MKAL… I am lucky if I get in half a row in a day. I am hopeful I will finish it by next weekend. I have new compression gloves.

This is interesting because my gut reaction is that even though it is unspoken blame (in the book I talk about guilt which I think aligns with blame), is always a part of empathy because of the weird binaries it creates. So maybe guilt and then/whatever caused the suffering.

Reminder that @jadedid.bsky.social's book on empathy is out, and it is on sale from Duke University Press until the 8th (50% off, code: CYBER23) www.dukeupress.edu/the-other-si...

We finally saw the barbie movie. Takeaways: My family said I am a Ken. I think it is really good for introducing teens to hard topics about gender and culture and also good for affirm their understanding if they have already been introduced to the concepts.

why is skin?

I am grateful for masks today because the mask is hiding the tiny patch of psoriasis that popped up on my face over night.

it me! (do we still say this or am I out of date? should I be saying "bet." here?)

Happy Thanksgiving y’all. I am so so so tired. but each day is getting better. Very happy to be in Iowa.

has empathy gone too far!? (yes) I am tired and things are tiring but I am looking forward to monday. the process of moving and other things made this probably the worst move I’ve ever. so I am very fatigued. but alive.

my hands hurt too much to knit and it is making me mad because I need to stab some stuff thousands of times for real.

Japanese Film double feature Idea: 1. hausu - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(... 2. happiness of the katakuris - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hap...

We live amongst the corn now.

There is a Bombay Bicycle Club song featuring Chaka Khan! Was not expected. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oweD...

"You boy, what day is this??"