Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

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

(my landlord is selling our building, I am heartbroken, and my denial stage is basically pursuing an unhinged collective organizing project)

vacillating between "it's delulu to be trying to start a housing co-op with your friends" and "this is literally the only way any of us will be able to stay in this stupid town we love until we die"

https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/rip-docs-the-vice-bankruptcy new spicy little RIP Corp! in which Katie Way (of the much-loved Hell Gate) and i talked about some of the weird details and unsolved mysteries within Vice's bankruptcy documents.

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-37/ this week in sentences: treating fences, backwards baseball cap, a number of people, the situation, but mostly, the hardest thing she'd ever do

Most days these days I feel like a fuckup but you know it helps to remember that Grimes and I are pretty close in age and I made it to my late 30s without having three children with undoubtedly The Worst Guy, so there's that

Indulging in my toxic trait of looking at storefronts for rent in my neighborhood when I have literally negative $300 to my name (side note, love how the stress of financial instability makes me think I should stop seeing a therapist, the activity that helps me avoid spiraling out over stressful stuff)

You know how people always say "you can't really know what's going on with someone just based on social media" that's not true for me, a depressed person

a very fun part of doing RIP Corp is occasionally I get to use it to interview people I just really admire and respect, last night I got to talk about conflict minerals with the researcher whose book really helped me wrap my head around the topic and its discontents and it was so cool to geek out with him

so broke but genuinely believe seeing lauren mayberry perform next weekend will solve several of my problems

Had a familiar awful moment of solidarity on the subway as we exchanged "wtf" looks over the very shitty way a guy was talking to I guess his girlfriend. One guy started to say something when I was getting off but I think no one was sure whether or how to intervene. Turns out when you really need to use it bystander intervention tips just totally evaporate from your brain and you're just panicked!