Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

@inquiline one of my exam questions is about animacies in infrastructure studies--which means I am going real hard on infrastructural vitalism rn, thank you for that framing!!

Final round of riddles (PhD exam questions) today

i made a scorpio angry nearly a decade ago and sometimes i think that the general acceleration of societal collapse is because of that person's rage at me, specifically

honestly, bad move on my part i apologize

i know it's only been like a week so it's normal that i'm still grieving my dog a whole lot but god, it is such an intense thing

this set of questions was way more generative, like I laid down some foundations for parts of my dissertation over the last 48 hours which feels really good

second set of riddles (phd exam questions) complete

phd exams update: once again I am explaining why the global financial crisis and the war on terror set the stage for so much bullshit we're still dealing with and it makes me feel so fucking old

But doctor, I am Lexapro

received my second set of wizard riddles (qualifying exam questions), wish me luck

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-95/ this week in sentences: ghosts, born and born and born, tempts, boxed in

quals update: working on an essay section titled "The poverty of economics in understanding the economics of poverty" this must be how Karl Marx felt after putting a sick burn on Proudhon

Wizard riddles update: I requested questions from my most annoying committee member first and they are pretty goofy but not actually hard?

Today the council of wizards (my committee) will send me my first set of riddles (exam questions), please send vibes

i understand why a pet insurance company would make their hold messaging emphasize working with you to avoid canceling the plan, but for the recently bereaved it is a bit harsh

it feels sort of insane that I'm doing my quals the same week my fucking dog died but realistically I won't be less devastated in a week and it's more tiresome to have it hanging over me. but god, what a bleak time.

Kitty passed away suddenly last night. We think it was a stroke. We were with her, at least. I loved sharing her on here and I'm glad so many people loved her. She was a very special dog and my world feels dimmer without her.

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-94/ this week in sentences: gravity forgot itself, enhanced by the chancy, over a poem, pious disciplines, basically disreputable

https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-makes-the-majority-of-the-worlds-computer-chips-now-its-running-out-of-electricity/ this came up a lot in interviews when I did fieldwork in Taiwan in 2022. Glad to see it getting more coverage