Slippy

I'm very excited to be onboarding as part of the Caravan Fund. We're gonna do good work together. Pittsburgh friends, pls keep in mind as a resource and reach out to me if I can help connect you with anything you need that the ABS does. 💜

Her very serious little face as she reaches out to honk my tit.

Cal has recently discovered the heated cat bed that sits next to me on my work couch and he's soooooo happy to be cozy.

Workplace newsletter: fungi may hold the key to understanding everything from pregnancy to climate adaptation! Me, deep in volume 2 of Little Mushroom: is this scientist studying danmei?

Starting Monday morning with a mammogram appointment was mildly annoying, but a migraine too is really uncalled-for. Nothing else annoying that starts with M is allowed to happen today. I feel like I'm in Evil Sesame Street.

Life is tough enough without literal fires popping up. Due to unforeseen events, me and my cats now have to move asap. #baltimore help me out! Even if it's just sharing 🖤 gofund.me/482f7f43a

omg when I ordered some Pepero to round out a delivery, I didn't know it was gonna have SKZ on it, I may have squeaked a little when I opened the bag.

I 100% forgot that months ago I gave Gigi access to her brothers' microchip-access food dishes while I was trying to help her regain weight. Just found her poaching Sasha's chicken treats out of his dish. *She* has not forgotten that she has the secret access code.

Good morning from Cal, who just turned on my phone camera with his nose. Apparently he wants to take selfies.

today in yanxi palace watch: the imperial court discovered bisexuality and immediately started performing yuri operas about the empress.

As a special treat I had the Thai place put a fried egg on my curry, and I don't know if it will fix me, but my god, if anything could it would be this and a Thai coffee.

My OTW donation gift has arrived, so please know I am riffling through the playing cards thinking of which of you each card reminds me of.

"He's like 'oooh I read BOOKS'" "*I* read books!" "Yeah, but you're not pretentious about it." "I'm alternating between Gödel Escher Bach and a postapocalypse danmei about a sentient mushroom who becomes human-shaped and falls in love with a man. I can't afford to be pretentious."

Attempting to replace a crockpot from the last millennium with a modern one is wild. There's so much going on with them now. They sous-vide? They have probes? Some of them have wifi? Man, just let a bitch make some stew.

wasn't expecting to find Colostrum Sticks on offer while placing a fun-Asian-snacks order but sure?

We have to sit in the middle of the sofa because Sasha is sprawled across our usual cushion, and she would like to know what, exactly, I intend to do about the situation.

shrimp emotions over here

Anyway he is in excellent health and we are rushing home so I can sign on to the Blue Castle 100th anniversary symposium because I am fun at parties.

Apparently Cal hissed at his vet tech, which is shocking. But she was taking pee with a needle and also she called him her spirit animal, so I think he was provoked.

it is an HOUR before treat time, there is no reason to be doing this at me at 6 pm

Everything about this movie delights me.

what. what? normal city, as usual.

I DID think these were earrings and now I'm considering buying them and making them earrings.

Feeling solidarity with my fellow “I survived the bomb threat summer of 2012 at Pitt” folks in the comments. (It was in my era of infant autism research. YOU try evacuating a scared mom, her tiny baby, and her autistic toddler while reassuring(?) them it’s the third time this week.)

I have been instructed to take a long chill lunch break since the onsite folks are all going out to a long lunch after the department meeting. Far be it from me to argue, I guess I gotta cuddle cats and play video games for a while.

About once a decade I remember the time in elementary school art class that I took my painting smock off and my shirt came off too and the boys saw my camisole and I ran away and hid in the girls’ locker room for like an hour. And yes I DO still break out in a cold sweat. Nightmare fuel!

Tempted to sneak this in with my neighbor's lawn flags and see how long it takes her to notice.

Sometimes there is genuinely an issue with people screaming outside our house, but sometimes it's just Imperial Concubine Jia yelling about being banished to the Cold Palace, at a time when L didn't realize I was doing treadmill-and-tv time.

Every morning Cal yells until I get out of bed, makes me give him breakfast, and then runs back to bed to curl up in my still-warm spot and sleep for hours. I am jealous of my cat's lifestyle.

I enjoy how at this point literally any rumor about Wang Yibo is believable. Let him be an archaeologist. The Lego accessories will be incredible.

Sometimes L tries to use analogies with me about being surprised to find out some place is a mafia front and I am just, my guy, I grew up in New Jersey. Every other antique shop "open by appointment only" was a mob front, you're describing Tuesday.

I DID manage to catch the typo in that text about a monthly autopay just before hitting send on "let me know about the monthly autopsy," but it was a close thing.

Extremely a trap.

when an eldritch horror peeks into the room with the tiniest "meep?"

I talk out loud to the cats a lot just to talk to them, but I do sometimes drop phrases like "satanic doo-wop" into the conversation partly to test whether L is listening in. (He was. He has questions.)

"I used to refer to my mother's second refrigerator as The Blood Fridge" and other things that sound normal in my head but then I say them out loud.

pensive

went to pre-order the jellicle ball cast recording, discovered a new twin temple album, will be subjecting my household to some real Experiences in the coming days.

Somewhere in this house I have lost approximately 100 zine about abortion that I was going to fold. Which is fine, whatever, I can print more, but where did they go??? What are the cats doing with my abortion zines???

You may have to break your heart, but it isn’t nothing to know even one moment alive. #SaturdayPoem

I am now listening to L describe my media server habits to his brothers in a way that sounds like I'm a careful preserver of endangered precious cultural materials instead of just "she gets annoyed when China takes down the gay stuff so she needs to ensure continued twink access."