Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Update: probably Javier https://open.substack.com/pub/gargoladigital/p/mi-amigo-javier-arce

also like 30 people subscribed in the last 24 hours, who sent you

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-144/ this week in sentences: crows, exhausting, teeny-weeny, Star Wars, rhythm of, personal weather, surface, idol factory, Algol, sweet bigotries, slightly more, navy blue, Nero, demons, needs to shout, dance, chlorinated, fire, percolation

@cstross if you do actually take the piss they might just scrap the episode so it kind of depends on if you want to waste their time or if that feels like a waste of your time. (IMO wasting the time of bad people is time they are not doing worse things in a sort of bureaucracy as sabotage sense, but your mileage my vary)

I appreciated a committee member telling me that they thought my advisor's comments on my chapter drafts were kind of mid/phoned in but now I just want to ignore all her comments and I can't because I do need to finish the PhD LOL

Still thinking about Julio Torres calling the Flatiron neighborhood "the Eataly district"

2224 / but this was also revising and cutting things from a chapter so I actually also removed like 3000 words (this is good, we wanted this)

Feel like Julio Torres' show at Performance Space really buried the lede by not emphasizing that BIBO the robot from Fantasmas is in it

1158 / getting somewhere with the revisions thank god

"more funnier" Jesus I'm tired how embarrassing

This brought to you by me having to explain crown copyright in the dissertation

"The King owns all the swans": weird, gross, who does that

"The Queen owns all the swans": bold, assume they obey her commands, what a weird accident of history

fuck the royals, but also it was so much more funnier to get to talk about The Queen doing stuff than The King, RIP Liz u truly had a better vernacular vibe

Got a spam email that began like this:

Honorable. Ingrid Burrington,

Have a productive day!!

I am honestly kind of into it

I appreciate that an ex of mine didn't rescind his endorsement of my skills in "Microsoft Office" on LinkedIn, really thoughtful of him

a "getting the team ready" hacker montage but it's set to the Goldberg Variations

@mhedney@historians.social Aliens is also great but a fundamentally different vibe, specifically I think this person will be really taken by the art direction and pacing of original recipe Alien