Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

we told our landlords that we would probs not be moving out before our lease ends and they took the building off the market to wait for us to move out. No one wants to buy a Brooklyn building right now that's going to have tenants for another 9 months. (Also they've had a very tepid response at showings--probably bc the asking price is way too high.)

So, still have to move but won't have my home bought out from under us and no more open houses.

legal gray area: boring, vague

the Air Bud School of Law: delightful, implies dogs doing law (no rule that says they can't)

@ryan woof that's a huge disappointment

I might have called him a "fucking bedbug" on my way into the building, that felt pretty good at least

Finally got a chance to ask one of the creeps here for the building's open house how he has 4 million. He said he was a broker representing a client and I asked how they had 4 million and he gave a very NPC answer of just "they have the resources." Very disappointing!

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-40/ this week in sentences: most maddening, history of condensations, mailman, cult film, augured, lost luggage

weekly department guest lecture introduced me to this book on the ILLICIT SUCCULENT TRADE, extremely here for it https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-cactus-hunters

like I went from "I will bow out of this panel" to "I should drop out of school and quit my podcast" over the course of an hour of thinking (I am not dropping out or quitting the podcast but I would like to get a raise for the podcast work)

I think the thing about taking things off of my plate is once I start I kind of just want to quit everything?? Which is counterproductive in a different way from the too many things

look it's completely OK to back out of things when you have unexpected life events that make it hard for you to show up to all the stuff

as long as you're not me, the only person who is a bad person for doing that

truly the only thing worse than being overwhelmed and needing to get stuff off of your plate is sending an email to someone saying "I am overwhelmed and need to get stuff off my plate, sorry"

between my landlords selling the building and my dog being sick I am really struggling to give a shit about anything

In further "Andrew Ross is a great guy" anecdotes: he was on Shannon Mattern's dissertation committee?!? Just a delightful person.

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-39/ this week in sentences: imperial swagger, over and over, odious children, slow-moving, the aspiring canceled

update: because the weather is going to be bad and probably not a lot of people will show, they will only be showing my landlords' ground floor apartment should I go and ask everyone how they made 4 million dollars

might set up a little blog to rate the outfits of people who come through the open houses the realtor is doing on the building (which I actually will be at home for b/c no, I don't have anywhere to take a 10 year old dog for 2 hours)

Ilana Glazer would be fake-nice at the open house but 100% kick us to the curb

@fishsauce woof!! that's awful