Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I'm starting to suspect that this job I'm applying for is a front for a hire they already have lined up, like they're poaching someone from another school and need to pretend to be hiring. Either that or they really, really don't have their shit together and don't know what they want.

Had to explain Mister Gotcha to a room full of not extremely online people today

Hot take I'd accept no benches in Penn Station if they brought back the clicky clacky time table

Filling the robots with the worst milk was such a clutch move tbh

The buildup to Harry Dean Stanton's death is so fuckin gorgeously shot

Update we're watching original recipe Alien and god it slaps

I thought Ramsey wanted to rewatch Alien but he torrented Romulus and said he had made a gcal invite titled "alien baja blast" which he assumed I would understand

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2024/09/12/massive-microsoft-data-center-will-require-huge-amounts-of-power-water/74778971007/ my friend Lindsay did a big long piece for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the impact of local data center development and I'm so proud of her!! Regional coverage is very important for this topic!!

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-90/ this week in sentences: dreadful innocence, End of Pants, malaise and satisfaction, leitmotif, cufflinks, squalid and ferocious, luxurious Hamburger Helper, notably

So is Henri Lefebvre's whole thing just making getting annoyed at a figure of speech his entire personality or is there more here

Struggling to distinguish if this is a new category of existential dread or if it's just I got the covid booster and flu shot yesterday and feel like shit, could be both?

sometimes i feel like i am a real fuckup w/r/t living but for those five minutes of golden hour when the weather is actually decent in brooklyn and i get to watch some dogs play around with abandon? ok fine living, u got me

got emotional at the dog park watching a little puppy playing w/a smaller dog because my senior dog doesn't get to the dog park like she used to, & generally doesn't play or chase anymore, & wow every day with animal companions really is a treasure and should be treated as such

Going to xoxo tanked my credit score, no regrets but yikes

Oh fuck its probably not this but just occurred to me the GWOT people coming out of the woodwork to endorse Harris might be about her saying in that CNN interview that she'd put a Republican in her cabinet

Ramsey texted me complaining that he read the Book of Job and thinks it's weak sauce that Job "got his stuff back"

sent my draft cover letter, cv, and teaching statement to reference writing friends!! i'm not going to get this job but i'm one step closer to not having to think about it!!

Watching my friends at the neighborhood bakery navigate a hell pocket dimension wherein a customer called to complain abt a late GrubHub order so an owner personally delivered it. Delivery guys keep showing up to take the order bc there's no way to communicate that it was completed outside the app.

me: hi qualifying exams committee i would really like us to schedule my exams before the presidential election

committee: we did yr little scheduling poll and the only window we're all available is 10am on Election Day

well played, sickos