Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

I suppose being a multi-university town helps but I really can't get over how many regular and used bookstores there seem to be in Vancouver, is this a weird after effect of healthcare

This was a joke but I was walking to a pho place for dinner and there was a dog just lying outside on the street asking people for belly rubs

Saying hello to every single dog in Canada

buy new shoes while i'm in vancouver because my current shoes have holes in the bottom or convince myself this means I'm experiencing the city with the authenticity of a local who might say "no worries" to wet feet

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-86/ this week in sentences: untowardly nude, corn leaves, use in sport, sole person in serif, very few things, dirty underwear, a macaron, euphemisms, static, a thousand gilded hydrants, traffics in attention

This Airbnb has a German shepherd named SHERMAN who lives upstairs and he is a big sweetie

Is somebody gonna match my Freakonomics

My favorite part of traveling is apparently going to bed at 9pm

Is the Lumen Prize a scam? Looking at the finalists list because a friend is in it and most of the projects look like AI trash

Update I slept for 9 hours it was great

Can I go to sleep at 7pm if I woke up at 5:30am and took a boat to Canada this morning

doing prep for my first oral history interview by watching a talk my interview subject gave on how open source political economy is bad and broken and i got a little teary eyed at the end?? look it's been a long day i've been up since 5am

my sister and I were talking about how she's only on FB for updates from her rural WA town's group page and she said "Oh no, I never *post*" in a tone as though I'd just asked her if she regularly shits her pants

https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-85/ this week in sentences: general abstractions, body bags, laser snake, life-force, scintilla, a shark in love

Learned that there's a Zootopia sequel in the works and it's not titled 2topia or Zoo2pia

found out a friend's dog died so the rest of the day is cancelled, go tell the dogs in your life that you love them please