Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

i understand why a pet insurance company would make their hold messaging emphasize working with you to avoid canceling the plan, but for the recently bereaved it is a bit harsh

it feels sort of insane that I'm doing my quals the same week my fucking dog died but realistically I won't be less devastated in a week and it's more tiresome to have it hanging over me. but god, what a bleak time.

@geospacedman what a beautiful family, I'm so sorry

Kitty passed away suddenly last night. We think it was a stroke. We were with her, at least. I loved sharing her on here and I'm glad so many people loved her. She was a very special dog and my world feels dimmer without her.

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-94/ this week in sentences: gravity forgot itself, enhanced by the chancy, over a poem, pious disciplines, basically disreputable

https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-makes-the-majority-of-the-worlds-computer-chips-now-its-running-out-of-electricity/ this came up a lot in interviews when I did fieldwork in Taiwan in 2022. Glad to see it getting more coverage

Feel like I'm flickering between wavelengths of reality most days

two of my fellow PhD students have been making a schematic of metals used both in building missiles and in renewable energy tech and they used a gradient background that I definitely called "bisexual lighting" on a zoom call just now, and no one got the joke

please respect my privacy in this time

@stephen_cornford Miranda July did an email project https://wethinkalone.com/about.html and idk if the Sheila Heti thing counts but https://lithub.com/sheila-heti-turned-her-diaries-into-alphabetized-autofiction-now-theyre-a-newsletter/

@beebalm all can see her gentle soul yes, occasionally they see the goof that lies beneath

sent out my exam memo!!! it's happening!!

@beebalm people often compare Kitty's appearance to a coyote which usually means they haven't ever seen a coyote but "incompetent wolf" feels about her speed

@philnelson like I shouldn't make them have to think too hard so I need to leave some obvious gaps/places to elaborate. I guess? This is all very silly.

my advisor's main concern is that my memo is too comprehensive and my committee won't be able to come up with questions for me

this is not helping with my assessment that this shit is hazing pure and simple

my mom said "I'm 69" on the phone and I didn't immediately say "nice", maybe I'm not a born poster after all