Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

33,910 words after revisions and with footnotes LOL

always have a little chuckle every time Siva Vaidynathan re-follows me, like "buddy I think you don't like my tweets, how does this keep happening"

no no no, Brie Larson was in the Michael Cera movie I didn't watch and Allison Brie was on the TV show I didn't watch

yesterday's unhinged but mostly just made me feel old yoga class playlist choice: most of the Belle and Sebastian album "Tigermilk"

lmao https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X21000601

oh no, she's in Google Books looking at every 19th century use of the phrase "annihilation of time and space"

you were probably
saving them for breakfast
forgive me they were so
SWEET AND COLD

today I learned that the inventor of penicillin originally called it "mould juice" when he was working on it in the lab

*to the tune of "Dragula"*

open the ice box
and go through its contents
and sorry but I must now
EAT THE PLUMS

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-15/ this week in sentences: the sexual outlaw, the eternity of print, mutual grievance, assuredly basic competence, growling old vagabond, new filigrees, various casinos

my advisor sent me a last round of comments and after telling me the thesis is excellent stated "It etched new filigrees in my rage" which, I'm sorry, that's a perfect sentence

sorry, Substack did what

I'm auditing a data science class this semester and I'm annoyed that I can tell that this instructor is rushing through a bunch of ML stuff which means I unfortunately know enough ML stuff to know what he's rushing, this sucks

got comments back on my thesis and while there's some stuff I need to revise I'm so glad I have such a smart and supportive advisor!!

also, not the most important part but "Harlan Crow" would be a good name for like, Benoit Blanc's nemesis

OK I'll admit, this Clarence Thomas news might be a bigger deal than the Barbie movie

having a lot of fun when people try to talk to me about the "big news" yesterday by assuming they mean the Barbie trailer dropping

thinking about that scene in Lady Bird where Timothee Chalamet tries to put Lady Bird's personal problems in perspective by talking about all the civilians killed in Iraq

honestly am prepared to believe that the Barbie movie has better politics than Chris Nolan's Look At The Tortured Geniuses Who Built A Genocide Machine, So Hard To Be Them