Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Update: successful nap but still a little too groggy to do stuff today

Slept badly but still got up at 6 to take the Amtrak to Delaware this morning, only to get a message from my advisor once I arrived at Penn Station that she's cancelling seminar today on account of a fever. I cancelled the train tickets for a cash refund and went home. Now in that hazy state of too much caffeine for a nap but too tired to be functional

tiny lady actors with extraordinary vocal ranges remind me of chihuahas a little, the lung power is a defense against being small in a huge world

I had to break the news of Kitty's death to a guy who knew her from the dog park today, hadn't seen him in a while, and it's sort of left me intermittently weepy all day

This is a picture of her from two years ago today, I miss her so much

submitted an application to yet another sorta-longshot teaching job, please clap

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-101/ this week in sentences: Sad Beige Home, space glue, unleashed dogs, plenty of chicken nuggets, motel rooms, we were promised, an outmatched cleric, commodity flotsam, sickos, anxiously toggling

"Diego Luna is the handsomest Star Wars Guy and it's not even close" is a fun way to start a fight during the holidays

Sometimes I think about how Alan Tudyk went to Julliard and wonder about who at Julliard mentors the silly guys, like who prepared Alan Tudyk to voice act as a chicken

ways Rogue One is a Thanksgiving movie:
- complicated family trauma with Jyn's dad working for the Empire
- found family helps misfits find purpose
- that moment when Cassian says "welcome home" to Jyn??
- movie inevitably leads to arguments about data storage formats (classic Thanksgiving fare)
- that one problematic mocap relative (dead Peter Cushing)
- Alan Tudyk

time to watch the most Thanksgiving movie of all, Rogue One A Star Wars Story (2016)

My boldest take is that America doesn't actually have a "left" in any cohesive politically organized sense and it's weird to complain about "the left" or "leftists" as a single group

What most people call "the left" in media and analysis is either progressive Democrats (who are a minority within their own party) or People on Social Media Who Disagree With Them (hold leftist values/have leftist praxis but don't actually constitute a mass political party or organizing force)

turning a leftover sandwich's fillings into an omelette is such a game changer

Fellas, you ever get overwhelmed by all the multi scalar theorizing and pondering of that which could be otherwise

First trip down to Delaware for school stuff since my dog died and can't stop thinking about how if I hadn't done that day trip I would have had a few more hours with her

Once again thinking about how Tommy Pickles' mom in Rugrats has the maiden name Kropotkin and is a first gen daughter of Russian immigrants meaning Tommy Pickles might be a descendant of the author of Mutual Aid