IT’S SUMMER, SUMMER, SUMMER!!!!!
(Well, not technically, but you know what I mean)
Time for another “how am I supposed to care about my present or future when the world is on fire and our generation probably won’t make it to retirement on a survivable planet?”
What’s it going to be this summer, eh?
Ridiculous wildfires?
Crop-destroying, river-draining droughts?
Crippling, month-long heatwaves?
ALL OF THE ABOVE????? ?? ???
???
Edit: Jesus Christ, Phoenix.
Three Things:
1. An Invitation
I was playing with Pepper and didn’t realize I still had my phone on while I held it in my left hand and OH MY GOD I almost invited the whole Curriculum Review Committee to the newly- and accidentally-created “I’m so rtf rtf” event. That would have been hilariously bad.
2. A Joke
Q: What do you call wine made from a pig?
A: Swine.
(This joke brought to you by Nate and me playing Jeopardy!)
3. A Met
I FREAKING LOVE JEFF MCNEIL
Longest run + Pepper Adventures
You guys, I am SO CLOSE to marathon distance. SO CLOSE!
Also, look at this adorable girl:
We’re trying to get her used to the harness so that we can take her outside on the weekends. She seems to be enjoying the whole process.
Semester OVER!
WOOOOOO!
Time to be free for a few months (or like a month and a half) before I have to start doing stuff again.
Vroom.
Current Mood:
I DON’T NEED FOOD OR WATER OR SLEEP I CAN WALK/RUN 100+ MILES PER WEEK ON PURE RAGE
Trois Cents!
(LOL, “trois cents” rhymes with “croissants”)
I’ve hit 300 days on Duolingo learning French!
That’s pretty cool. I didn’t think I’d stick with it that long, but I’m glad I have! Now I just want to learn even more French, haha.
Test Your Metal
Check out this beautiful eye shadow palette! It’s called Master Metals by Makeup by Mario.
Swatches!
That gold is phenomenal.
OH GOD THE MATHEMATICIANS FOUND SOME GOOD CHALK
I HATE the feeling of chalk on my hands. I fortunately haven’t had to use it very much due to how I lecture (I put partially completed notes up on the doc cam and fill them in with pen…sweet, sweet, glorious pen), but when I was a TA most of the lab rooms just had regular chalkboards and I had to deal with that.
It gets EVERYWHERE. Maybe this Japanese chalk is different, but I would get out of lab just COVERED in chalk dust. Hell, the notebooks I used when I TA’d are still coated in chalk film.
Blegh.
An Experiment:
So I want y’all to listen to this song (especially if you don’t spend a lot – or any – time on TikTok:
Done?
What emotion or general feeling did that evoke for you?
Was it XTREME NOSTALGIA?
I’m just curious, because currently there are a lot of videos going around on TikTok where this song is being used as the background sound and the video is just a slideshow of pictures of late 80s, 90s, early 2000s stuff.
I’m curious if the nostalgia trigger is the music itself or if it just triggers nostalgia because I associate it with those slideshows.
House (not MD)
Super interesting stuff.
I’ve always liked small spaces. Hell, I went through a phase in junior high during which I felt like even my own room was too big and thus I moved all my important things into my closet and hung out there instead.
Our place is pretty much perfect for me and Nate, but if I lived on my own, I’d love to live in a tiny little studio.
Where…where did this come from?
I swear to god I don’t remember making this, but I can’t find where I would have downloaded it and this is EXACTLY the kind of stupid thing that I WOULD make in a fit of LOLOLOLOL, so who the hell knows.
(Yes, I uploaded it to YouTube in August 2023 because it wasn’t there originally…just on my compy.)
Sleep? Nah! WHY BUY A MATTRESS
If You Like It Then You Should Have Put a Pin On It
Remember a few days ago when I showed you all the stickers I have that I haven’t stuck to anything because I’m dumb like that?
I’m the same way with pins.
(Yes, I have some weird pins.)
(Yes, I only have Master Shake and Frylock. Meatwad is MIA.)
Breaking Spring
So Calgary’s XTREME WINTER TEMPERATURES are really good at lining up for when I am on any kind of break – winter break, spring break, whatever.
Don’t believe me?
Take a look at this graph. Can you tell which week is our spring break?
Yup, you got it!
This happens EVERY YEAR. What in the HELL.
STICKER, NO STICKING!
Does anyone else love stickers…
…But doesn’t stick them to anything?
Here’s my pile.
Nothing is worthy enough for these stickers.
IT HAS BEEN DECIDED
Once I go back down to Moscow this summer, I’m going to take all my old home video tapes to Archer Photography and have them converted to digital format there. My mom went there a little while ago to ask if they were able to do that, and it sounds like they’re able to just convert everything to MP3 format.
So that’s cool.
I’m excited!
Band o’ Cloud
Bro, check out this snazzy band of cloud:
I LOVE the clouds up here. We usually don’t get super interesting ones until the summer (apart from the Chinook arches), but this one is pretty unique.
Uh…
Why…why is my middle toe so red?
Is it dying?
(It’s probably dying)
Toe, if you’re dying, I need you to move to the left foot. That’s where all the dying toes go.
K THANKS
Brrthday Brr
So it’s been pretty well established over the years that it’s always very cold on my birthday up here in Calgary.
I mean, of course it is, my birthday’s in the winter. But I mean in comparison to the days surrounding my birthday, the birthday day itself is always quite a bit colder than the other days.
And it looks like that’s going to be the case this year, too:
That’s hilarious. There’s a DELIBERATE TEMPERATURE DIVE approaching February 2nd, then it goes back up again.
H I L A R I O U S
Boom, boom, boom, boom / Please get out of my room
So in yesterday’s blog (which like only two of you readers have access to because you know my super secret password LOLOLOLOL), I mentioned that one of my biggest pet peeves is when people misquote TV shows, movies, songs, etc.
I wanted to elaborate on that.
I think this is such a pet peeve of mine because for whatever reason, my one skill in life is being able to remember dialogue for movies/TV shows (and lyrics from songs) as if the movie/TV show/song was just being replayed in my head. I’ve mentioned this in a past blog, but when I was a kid, I frequently had trouble hearing/understanding what characters were saying but could remember the cadence, inflection, and rhythm of their speech. As I grew older, I think my ability to remember these features combined with an improved ability to understand the words themselves and just made it so that all those components fused the words right into my brain.
Like…when I say I can recite some movies word for word from beginning to end, I mean it. I could recite a number of Brian Regan’s routines word for word, too (just ask my mom, hahaha), along with accurate cadence, tone, inflection, etc.
So I think this is such a pet peeve because I have trouble understanding how others could not have this level of recall. If you get a word wrong, the whole cadence is off, and can’t you notice that???
It’s not anything I’d confront anyone over, of course – this is SUPER trivial and SUPER dumb – but it’s just something that rubs me the wrong way. Most of the time I don’t say anything, either, because it’s just not worth the confrontational effort.
Anyway.
(I also like to use this as an excuse as to why I have no sense of direction. The part of my brain that’s responsible for keeping track of where I am in space is occupied instead by the scripts to Mystery Men, Apollo 13, and a whole bunch of other movies/TV shows/songs.)
I wasn’t planning on bringing this decrepit toenail into the new year and yet HERE WE ARE
What the hell is this?
What the hell is this?
Why is it still attached?
How is it still attached?
I’d set it free, but it’s SO SECURELY ON THERE that there’s no way.
And it’s too thick to trim, so…
UGH.
GLOBULAR
I like this kind of stuff, fight me.
Also, in my 2017 NaNoWriMo, I had a mapmaker who was still making globes when it had been confirmed that the earth was lens-shaped rather than round (it was a dumb story, haha).
Presents of Mind
Yo!
So we opened presents today because why the hell not? My family knows exactly what I like, haha. Observe:
A magnet from my mom. I’ve got it stuck to my treadmill where I can see it from my chair.
A FREAKING SCHERZER JERSEY from Nate. I’ve dubbed it my “Scherzey” and will wear it on opening day next season (it’s already covered in Pepper hair, haha).
I also got a cat calendar as always. WOO!
My Accent Color is Red
My backpack. My phone. My AirPods case. The mouse for my laptop. The one cup I always drink out of at home. At least two pairs of my winter gloves. The most commonly-used color on my nighttime running glowies. My umbrella.
Edit from the future: my desktop computer’s accent light.
Ugh.
That is all.
We started at the barley, now we’re beer
Dunking on Iowa because it has a wonky county (and has far too many counties in general)?
I’m here for it.
Dat too many counties yo.
Comments from Twitter:
- Wow, each resident gets their own county? That’s amazing.
- I seem to recall something in the 70s that made the planet Mars the honorary 100th county.
- stop size shaming
- Map-maker accidentally hit Merge Cells
- The year is 1985. Iowa Dept of State gets a brand new fangled computerized municipal registry. Problem. Only allows 2 digit entries. Solution. Goodbye Johnson County, hello MegaKossuth!
- Pottawattamie is kinda chunky, too
- do you think there’s another 100 counties in iowa county, iowa
- WHO DID THIS
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