Jennifer Goodland

Jennifer Goodland

@libraryjenn.bsky.social

Neurospicy librarian; Doctoral hopeful (Simmons ‘30); Olympic hopeful (Brisbane ‘32). Lazy, but bad at it. DM policy: include your reason in your FIRST message. Content: obscure primary sources, #ALA. Mocking my horse, #GarbageMare.

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#GarbageMare is fine, she says she was interested in water polo anyway. The La Plata is flowing close to her run, but she’s another 1-2 feet in elevation above the flooding. It’s gonna crest again today and tomorrow, she might get her feet wet but she won’t have to swim.

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The monitoring stations failed. La Plata is still safe, but we don’t know how high the incoming surge on the San Juan and the Animas are going to be. It won’t stop raining. There are funnel clouds and we don’t have tornado sirens for the same reason Wyoming doesn’t have tsunami alarms.

#GarbageMare is fine, she says she was interested in water polo anyway. The La Plata is flowing close to her run, but she’s another 1-2 feet in elevation above the flooding. It’s gonna crest again today and tomorrow, she might get her feet wet but she won’t have to swim.

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#GarbageMare is fine, she says she was interested in water polo anyway. The La Plata is flowing close to her run, but she’s another 1-2 feet in elevation above the flooding. It’s gonna crest again today and tomorrow, she might get her feet wet but she won’t have to swim.

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The Trailblaze Food Cupboard provides food, hygiene items, and diapers for San Juan College students. Many students have lost everything in these floods. They will need help in the months to come.

#GarbageMare is fine, she says she was interested in water polo anyway. The La Plata is flowing close to her run, but she’s another 1-2 feet in elevation above the flooding. It’s gonna crest again today and tomorrow, she might get her feet wet but she won’t have to swim.

She’s through the worst of it and the barn owner let me know the horses are okay. Those who lost their horses are at other barns, on other rivers - Farmington has three, #GarbageMare lives on the one that had the least flooding.

Work has been turned into a shelter since there are so many evacuees now. It’s an odd feeling to know that my entire community is so devastated while R.J. and I and all our animals are safe.

This course looks interesting (and low-cost) for anyone who wants to learn about Byron beyond his existence as a fuckboy. I would do it but I am struggling with lit review at the moment. Why are so many peer-reviewed articles still GARBAGE. Why.

Dr Sam Hirst@romgothsam.bsky.social

The course is online, runs for three weeks, and all materials are provided! You can join from anywhere in the world!

I went to the gym today but I had the decency to dress in a thick woolen maxi skirt and a poncho so nobody thinks I’m a whore, I only passed out from heat stroke a few times but it’s so worth it to impress a guy who looks like he mostly goes to the gym for the juice bar #snl

I’m not going to argue that Shane Gillis isn’t funny, because comedy is subjective. But by calling women whores for how we dress at the gym amid the Cornell scandal, Shane Gillis is asking for it. And he’s got beefy arms and legs, so he should be grateful for the attention.

The challenge in owning a blue heeler is that his activities are largely up to him. He knows what the ball is, he knows how to catch it, he knows how to fetch it. But he doesn’t see the point in bringing it back if you’re just going to throw it again. If you want the ball so bad, you go get it.

Introduction of a study on eye tracking: We studied 44 boys with ADHD… The rest of the study: We conclude that when designing materials for children with ADHD… (Eye tracking is totally different for ADHD girls, so following this study would lead to worse educational outcomes for girls.)

If you are in #NewMexico please vote for the two GO Bonds! I like having library materials, and I also like it when the toilets inside the library actually flush. GO Bond literally makes these things possible. Especially the toilets. Our sewer system is so old.

The Fella and I were watching The Thing (1982) and we were both possessed of a deep desire to go work in Antarctica. Or just visit. Can any of you help with that? We are old but I can do data stuff if it helps I promise we are not alien shapeshifters

I am 50 years old. I have seen towers fall and rockets explode and empires crumble. I have seen dictators die and exes buried. I cannot bear the idea of making my fridge “aesthetic.”

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MFW the vendor has a big “user is an idiot” attitude, I finally get them to send a tech out, and the tech can’t fix it either BECAUSE IT’S BROKEN LIKE I SAID IT WAS

Ever have those “everything’s coming up Milhouse!” days? First patent published! Someone gave me a Coke! A raven gave me a pretty rock! But I’m really wondering why there is a brand new steam cleaner in my house? We have two of lesser quality, and this one just kinda showed up in our garage?

*sigh* Now I need to go back out to the barn and do my chores later, after #GarbageMare calms down from her massive temper tantrum. She is furious with me. I just wanted to see if she’d changed her mind about apples. And I guess that’s a war crime now?

"Can I really do a PhD at 50?" Yes, person I made up for this post. There are some surprising benefits. If you don't get hit by a bus sometime, then you're gonna be seven years older with or without the PhD. Might as well do it. If you do get hit by a bus, you don't have to do lit review anymore.

Ladies and AFABs, add variety to your life: Are you tired because of menopause, or are you tired because you have to write a section about PRISMA guidelines? Trick question: It doesn't matter, you're too tired to care!

So many menopause symptoms mimic the natural state of the doctoral student! You don't have brain fog, you're just taxing your brain very hard. You don't have hot flashes, you're stressed about your fellowship. You're not grouchy, you're *developing yourself.* Instant societal approval!

I don’t have much imposter syndrome left at this point in my career. However, I submitted my first batch of assignments for my doctoral work and I keep expecting the feedback to be “our apologies, we’ve realized you’re quite stupid.”

One of my assignments is literally just do a print statement and a bit of math with Python. It either works or it doesn’t, it’s as understandable as Logo/Lisp. And yet I half-expect I found a new way to break it somehow.

Glad the economy is healthy enough to support a small army of people to follow me around Hobby Lobby and just stand in front of whatever thing I wanted to look at, oblivious, like they’re figuring out wtf stickers are or how to spell the word “wood”

Generations of this family have been born, met, got married, and died in front of the washi tape, this is their homeland. If I attempt to also look at the washi tape, it is a clear act of aggression.

Me, watching asmr unboxing videos of squishies: These are stupid. Our economy is dying Me, with my first squishy that I found in the library today: oooooooooooh why can’t I stop touching it

Dear vendors: I am begging y’all to monitor which clients haven’t completed mandatory migrations, and then reach out! Don’t just cut access. Take the time to ASK ‘cause maybe you sent your sole migration notice to, say, accounting instead of the tech who’s been trying to contact you for a full year.

Amazing resistance art.

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social

"My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica...The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” -Jennifer Nelson (quoted in the linked booklet, alongside other extraordinary pieces)

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