Christyna

“You’re one of one. You’re unprecedented in the entire line of human history. Only you have your brain. Only you can think of what you can think of. Only you can tell a story in a particular way. Why would you cede that to a machine?” —Dave Eggers

The students in the class I grade for must think I'm stupid 😭 so many of them use AI like they assume I can't tell. I can tell.

I love Inception, but naming the character who designs mazes "Ariadne" was maybe a little too on the nose. Just perhaps a smidge too much.

It's 9:00, have your boys gone to Jupiter?

Going to a concert this week for a band whose entire discography runs just over an hour. They'd better play every song.

YOUR FISH STICK STAINS ON THE FRONT LOBE OF MY LEFT SIDE BRAINS

Pro tip: before agreeing to help drive people 2.5 hours to the airport, first make sure they aren't planning on leaving at 2 am

One of the kids who lives above us has recently acquired a jump rope. Ask me how I know.

My baby sister is getting married next week, and while I realize that she is fully old enough to legally purchase alcohol in the United States, she is also a child bride and much too young to be getting married

When I was a teenager and heard people talk about getting their septum pierced I was confused and thought they meant sternum, and I was so horrified at the idea

Can't stop thinking about Daily Bunny Cooper

What I tried to message my advisor: "Hi Ross, I know you're busy this week, but I've got a question.." What I actually sent to my advisor: "Hi Ross, I know you" Fortunately Slack allows message editing 😵‍💫

I know the whole point of newspeak in 1984 is that limiting language also limits people's ability to express themselves and all that, and yet, "double plus ungood" really means something to me that I don't know how to express otherwise.

Bella and Edward: *having a moment* The music for some reason: NOW I'M A FAT HOUSE CAT

you can beat a dead horse to water but you can't look it in the mouth

So you know Bisquick, instant pancake mix? Kind of like that, introducing fishquick, instant fish mix

My opinion? Approximately 3.1416onion

My hot take is that all fantasy writers should have to take at least one geology class

Hey man, did you want to come to Scarborough Fair? A few of us were getting a group together, I hear they've got some herbs or something? Also someone's ex is from there I think...no worries if not.

Will F4 make sense if I haven't seen F1? Also why can't I find F2 or F3 anywhere?

Finally watched The Batman recently, and I'll be honest, Pattinson looks more like a vampire as Bruce Wayne than as Edward Cullen

Like the sing-along showings of Wicked but for Superman, just so I can go crazy to Five Years Time in the theater

They say the only thing necessary for the evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing, but if you're just doing nothing while evil is triumphing you might not be a good person, actually

Me: and that's why the Richter Scale has severely limited utility compared to the Moment Magnitude Scale @aloemancer.bsky.social: 😴😴😴

(we also respect kingfishers and kinglets)

I have a new niece, and I'm so excited about that, but also her initials spell "EGG"

Panic! at the Opera Phantom of the Disco

February reading wrapup!

I'd kiss a thousand boys in bars before I let this company die!

Maybe I'm tripping or maybe I've just been too deep in my research but I think Azimuth would be a cool fantasy name. Maybe a fantasy villain?

All of the 56 books I read in 2024! I'm really happy with my reading year.

I've heard that the fish on the Ewoks planet are really good for your brain. It's cause they've got all those Endor fins.

How does one find oneself stuck in a faculty meeting. When one is not on said faculty. I haven't had lunch yet, let me out. What am I doing here.

Book I am now reading says that someone's clothing was "draped tight" and while I am still not a language expert, I'm pretty sure that phrase makes no sense (drape=loose. The dictionary said so).

Apparently my sister-in-law went on a date with the son of the moms for liberty founder 😳 who writes speeches for Ron Desantis. (no, she does not see a future with him. But yikes)

New upstairs neighbors have loud children 👍 can't wait to listen to someone else's kids cry for the next year

Me? Still in the lab at 7 pm? Haha, no, you must be mistaken

I literally only just now realized why they're called "bald" eagles. I'm turning 25 next week.