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@lisaeckstein Oh yay! Reading that now and really enjoying it.

#FridayReads Just finished Ursula Le Guin's story collection The Birthday of the World. I loved every story, and each one really shows off her talents at approaching science fiction anthropologically.

@lisaeckstein @GillianMAuthor ooh, that sounds good!!

#FridayReads Wrong Place Wrong Time by @GillianMAuthor is a fun, time-twisty mystery story full of dark family secrets!

@lisaeckstein LOVE this shot!

Bird on a wire

@lisaeckstein congrats!! though there's inevitably plenty left to do, that's huge! enjoy some well-deserved basking.

Left as an Exercise for the Writer - I reached the end of a novel draft last week, but wow, do I still have a lot to figure out about this story. lisaeckstein.com/2023/02/left-a…

@oaknfell @lisaeckstein I was entertained by it last year! We almost could have had a book club meeting last weekend ;)

November Reading Recap: My Sister, The Serial Killer; The Spare Man; Meet Us By the Roaring Sea. lisaeckstein.com/2022/12/novemb…

#FridayReads Just started The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson (rec'd to me ages ago by @HillenmeyerSara). Most recent great sentence: "A grubby man was sleeping on a bench, and they marveled at it, a person sleeping any place he wished."

@GretchenAMcC I once lost over a year's streak when going US to Australia, but that was quite a while ago. I'm glad they have 2 streak freezes available now!

Important question: if you cross the international date line, how does it affect your Duolingo streak?

@AndyPerfors ...like train bureaucrats! 😂😂

@AndyPerfors So glad the fun counterprogramming idea worked out! y'all rock and look happy & great!! <3

@AndyPerfors 😂😂😂 okay, that too -- but I meant you should try the drink!!

@AndyPerfors omg! you kinda have to try it, don't you??

Also contains a surprise indirect mention of me! (though that might be an Easter egg that I appreciate more than anyone else 😂) So proud to have helped a bit in the creation of Bunnyland, and to be BFFs with the awesome Andy. 🐇😊

This interview was so good! (Kudos to the student hosts; wish I'd had a podcast like this around as a grad student.) It's by turns fun, informative (about cog sci, stats & edu, but I also learned some new methods for coping with anxiety omg), vulnerable, & heartwarming.

@kathrynbck oof <3

@kathrynbck oh nooooooo!! 😱 haven't gotten this yet, but from the descriptions, DO NOT WANT

@lisaeckstein @kathrynbck yeah, this. :-/

@lrnschmdt @kathrynbck This is another one where I feel like if anyone should be thanking, it's the patient to the medical staff, but because it's actually about money, it goes the other way, and that's so depressingly transactional.

@lisaeckstein @kathrynbck Fascinating! I'm pretty sure I didn't get any cards for either my mammogram or colonoscopy. I got two following my hysterectomy, IIRC -- one from the folks in the OR, and one from the folks in recovery.

@kathrynbck That's bizarre, esp the *2* cards. My mammograms have always been a non-noteworthy level of care (kind, but normal). But after a colonoscopy through the same clinic, I received a thank you card in the mail signed by every staff member I interacted with.

@AndyPerfors 🤩

@AndyPerfors yay!!!!!