Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

This book I'm supposed to be reviewing is really attached to framing stuff as what "we" take for granted or "our" way of life and I am having flashbacks to teaching industrial designers with @sparks bc we used to drive the students insane by insisting they be specific w/r/t the "we" language

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-32/ this week in sentences: all over my arms, the earth owns them forever, hacking edges, a wholly owned subsidiary

IMO sand is NOT humble though, have you ever been to a beach sand loves to get into EVERYONE'S business and also clothes

Etymology suggests that humble as a word traces back to "lowly" as in literally "on the ground" (the same origin as the word humus), so it may have begun as an explicit statement of how materials like sand and salt are literally "of the earth"

one of those questions that on 2009-2015 twitter probably would have rustled up an expert: what is the history of referring to certain materials as "humble"? reading a book on commodities where the ~humility~ of various minerals gets invoked a lot, curious when/how that language became commonplace. Is it a Bible thing? Feels like maybe a Bible thing

Her job...it's just snooze

Lin-Manuelanguage Model

Always struggle with the "no time for despair" framing and the way it implies there's an indulgence to sorrow, as though one is losing in the fight of one's life simply out of laziness or not trying hard enough. I would love to feel other feelings!!

On the one hand I agree with the observation from Rebecca Solnit that despair is a valid feeling but it's not an analysis

On the other, I *feel* pretty strongly like I want to die sometimes and sometimes the feeling is too intense to really *analyze* it

Anyway I think I'm pretty well useless for the rest of the day from the cortisol of this non-update, goodnight

School starts August 29 this is utterly deranged

The entire point of doing a PhD was to get some stability and in the absence of that this all starts to feel pretty pointless!! Maybe it is time to walk into the sea

Found out I will have to wait one more week to learn whether I am funded for the fall semester and my anxiety is so bad I briefly considered dropping out just to have some certainty, ha ha ha

Great 2020 joke look I started grad school in 2021 ok

Feel like getting a PhD does actually mean you're a Certified Freak

Making a live action movie that feels like an anime (eg John Wick) is OK