Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-12/ this week in sentences: hummingbird heartbeat, an effort at estrangement, prophecies, dogshit on a spring walk, enough cyanide, the trappings of an action movie

Amazing how much writing I can get done when I simply don't do the dishes

it's a-me, the Neoliberal University

"delete your account a hero or post long enough to become a villain"

"just doing some scholarly knowledge production" I think to myself as I pull up the Wikipedia entry for Carmen Sandiego to help me remember the word I'm looking for ("portmanteau")

yesterday I told a stranger about my research and they thought it was cool and wow I really needed that validation!!

listening to Wizard of Earthsea as I type an entire section of a French article on mining in World War II into DeepL because every time I try to OCR it for translation I get gobbledygook, this is fine

there's an out of print book about an obscure company relevant to my thesis that cost $108 and I am so annoyed

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bandcamp-union-1234695308/ a good afternoon to workplace organizing at a good app!!

OMG WIlliam Gibson's sobriety date is MY BIRTHDAY wow

update: i took a little walk, sort of helped

at the state of overwhelmed where I'm deep in the slog of doing work but not receiving validation for said work, which means that it's either time for me to give up entirely or take a little walk

http://www.mollyosberg.com/vibes-for-bukka My friend Molly O's dog is sick and she is holding a raffle of friends' art and skillshares to raise money for his medical bills, which is very cool and rad of her friends to support her with this

thinking again about the time Mari misremembered the title and called it "Everything Too Much All The Time"

Also I cited the Reductress "Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point" headline and I really hope they let me keep it

Including footnotes I cleared 15,000 words on my silly little thesis tonight!! Excluding them I am about 800 words away. I might be overdoing it with the footnotes.

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-11/ this week in sentences: a no-brainer, decorously abstract, spoken by sunlight, gravity and authority, the massive continuity of ducks

also: 12,416 words of this silly little thesis written, hope they like extensive detours into the shady correspondence of a commodity broker