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the elastic snaps and as your industrial grade mask flutters impotently in the breeze you realize it has come to this: either you do not board the train or you wear the "hentai♡" mask in public

Nobody warned me how much of "finishing a PhD" was things like rebuilding your computer, reformatting your computer, repairing system files on your computer, reinstalling all the apps on your computer...

O Jamesy let me up out of this

Everyone knows how to read a book! Thinking about what you've read for so long that you convince yourself you don't actually know how to read is baffling, but not impressive.

It took me less than a week to learn how to assemble a desktop computer. Most of the people in my life consider this relatively simple skill far more impressive than getting a PhD in literature, which will have taken me about a decade once it's all said and done.

I love my mom.

I've been living in Europe for 8 years and still can't do the "kiss hello" with any modicum of grace. "Hi, great to see you! Going to smash into the side of your head and awkwardly kiss your earlobe. How've you been?"

Reading Dennis Cooper The Sluts in public but shaking your head the whole time so everyone knows you disagree

If I'm going down, pal, you're going down with me. 100 HORSES 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎

Neighbour has come home absolutely ripped in the middle of the night, like 3-4AM, several times in the last two weeks. Completely refuses to keep it down even when I ask politely, firmly, face to face. Unrelated, my new morning routine involves blaring Geese at 6AM.

How would Umanism be different from Humanism? What role did horse girls play in the Enlightenment? This is literally keeping me awake.

Writing feedback for my students, I accidentally misspelled "humanity" as "umanity" and now I'm lying in bed wondering if there's a philosophy called "Umanism" in the Umamusume universe.

Telling my friend "teaching is just analogue podcasting" and hearing her try to explode me with her mind over the phone.

To whoever discarded their $200 Bluetooth speaker when they moved out of my apartment building: thank you for the tremendous improvement you've made to my quality of life.

Back in the classroom again today and both of my seminars were so much fun. Devastated that it's only a 4 week course, my students are wonderful.

@DrAllyLouks GIRL YESSSSSSS

Long day of book editing. My brain is mulch so I’m starting Heated Rivalry.

Have suddenly remembered the Faustian jetlag bargain, which is that "energy in the morning" comes with feeling as awful as I did when I was in acute SSRI withdrawal & I must constantly remind myself that my feelings are not "real" for the next 72 hours.

Waking up naturally at 5AM for the first few days after a transatlantic flight always makes me feel so optimistic. Like, yes, girl, this WILL be the time you stick with it and start going to bed at 10 PM forever. This is the year!

Scott and Kim trending reminds me that 10 years ago, I spent student loan money to buy this original page & didn't realize until it arrived in the mail that O'Malley re-drew Kim's expression in the 4th panel. She was originally smiling when she asked him this question.

My mom refuses to watch THE X-FILES with me anymore because I keep saying, "You know, that stuff really happened," and the first few times she thought I was joking, but now she just sighs and goes "Please don't talk about Operation Paperclip again."

I'm home right now and people keep asking "When is your draft due?" & every time I say "April 1st" they go "April Fool's Day? Risky choice, dude." Buddy, if there is ONE thing I have learned in the last decade of my life, it's how to roll with the Universe's idea of a "joke."

Telling my supervisors that I'll have the first draft of my manuscript ready on April 1st, delayed because I've had a cartoonishly awful ~2 yrs, feels like running full-tilt at a painting of a tunnel and expecting to LOONY TUNES my way through it unharmed.