Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

that being said I don't know that UD is significantly worse than most big state universities or even more prestigious schools--like an ExxonMobil STEM scholarship sucks but like BP funds the MIT Media Lab so meh

my university's "graduate student news" email opened with a very union-busting vibes anecdote about how grad students should really communicate with senior leadership more directly and had among upcoming fellowship and funding deadlines a STEM fellowship from ExxonMobil

we're doing great over here, thanks

Today I bought an omny card at CVS--this is the contactless fare card that's supposed to replace metrocards sometime next year. the MTA really really wants people to just use their bank cards or phones but I'm trying to see just how much work it is to only use cash with them. They're supposed to be for sale at all CVSes but anecdotally I've heard a lot of stores haven't had them. Mine did, but the guy ringing me up didn't know how to add cash to it so I gotta try another store I guess.

basking in the satisfaction of taking apart and cleaning an extremely gross appliance (in this case, the box fan that Erin and Peter left in the apartment six years ago which has accumulated years of cooking greases and grime from being wedged between the stove and the window to augment the practically useless range hood ventilation)

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-16/ this week in sentences: and by place, a tough competitor, rooting, a petal in a dahlia, without light

I passed, I am now a map master

A nice part of doing my thesis defense on zoom is I have four emotional support beverages at my side

ha ha ha, trying to compress 120 pages into a 45 minute presentation is

not easy

it's like if you had to know a lot about mime to understand how Mussolini rose to power or something

I'm so sorry to the future historians who have to write about the gamers

changed the font on my thesis defense slides to the LaTex font and now they feel a lot more Important

it is impossible to want to be Mayor of New York and not kind of suck, is what I'm saying

Eric Adams is the worst but I do want to remind everyone that in the 2021 mayoral election our choices were him and the guy who literally runs a militia (and the primary options were pretty bad too!)

Someone told me that they thought it was a thing where people wanted to "get ahead of the story" but my brother in christ, Casey Newton isn't covering you becoming a product manager at Spotify no one cares

remember that era where people posted on Medium about taking a new job or leaving their current job and the posts would be longer than like, those meandering recipe blog posts

people really weren't okay, huh

the revised version is turned in, now I just have to write the defense talk lol

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