Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I think the thing about taking things off of my plate is once I start I kind of just want to quit everything?? Which is counterproductive in a different way from the too many things

look it's completely OK to back out of things when you have unexpected life events that make it hard for you to show up to all the stuff

as long as you're not me, the only person who is a bad person for doing that

truly the only thing worse than being overwhelmed and needing to get stuff off of your plate is sending an email to someone saying "I am overwhelmed and need to get stuff off my plate, sorry"

between my landlords selling the building and my dog being sick I am really struggling to give a shit about anything

In further "Andrew Ross is a great guy" anecdotes: he was on Shannon Mattern's dissertation committee?!? Just a delightful person.

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-39/ this week in sentences: imperial swagger, over and over, odious children, slow-moving, the aspiring canceled

update: because the weather is going to be bad and probably not a lot of people will show, they will only be showing my landlords' ground floor apartment should I go and ask everyone how they made 4 million dollars

might set up a little blog to rate the outfits of people who come through the open houses the realtor is doing on the building (which I actually will be at home for b/c no, I don't have anywhere to take a 10 year old dog for 2 hours)

Ilana Glazer would be fake-nice at the open house but 100% kick us to the curb

ScarJo and Colin Jost would kick us out without even looking us in the eye, absolutely

Pretty sure Ebon Moss-Bachrach already owns his place in Brooklyn Heights but if he were in the market I bet he'd be charmed by our setup enough to let us stay

Ranking movie stars by probability they'll kick me out of my apartment when they buy out the building

in my mind the only potential buyers for my landlord's building were basically sentient hedge funds because who has 4.3 million dollars but I just remembered movie stars live in my neighborhood and honestly if I get forced out of my home by Margot Robbie or something during a strike that would at least be fucking hilarious

Me: I will continue to be a graduate student because health insurance

University Health Insurance: why would we pay for a covid booster, it's not like a college campus is a perfect place for a virus to multiply lol

well the good news is Kitty might not be in renal failure but instead she might have spleen cancer? more tests to follow. would love if things weren't constantly happening at once over here.

(belatedly bc the instance crashed yesterday)

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-38/ this week in sentences: grasping, a $500 minivan, larvae, a debauched ghost, the kind of academic, actually existing, mutually contradictory

I'm so annoyed that I used this term in an article on a now-shuittered publication before him (which he probably didn't see, to be fair, bc he'd have a better analysis if he had) and he's more famous than me so everyone is gonna run with his framing, lol

respectfully: Cory Doctorow's definition of "means of computation" is too focused on software and thereby an incomplete approach to addressing the challenges he outlines

"Like from Call Me By Your Name?" I ask the owner of a pug named Elio