Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

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

Feel like I'm flickering between wavelengths of reality most days

two of my fellow PhD students have been making a schematic of metals used both in building missiles and in renewable energy tech and they used a gradient background that I definitely called "bisexual lighting" on a zoom call just now, and no one got the joke

please respect my privacy in this time

sent out my exam memo!!! it's happening!!

my advisor's main concern is that my memo is too comprehensive and my committee won't be able to come up with questions for me

this is not helping with my assessment that this shit is hazing pure and simple

my mom said "I'm 69" on the phone and I didn't immediately say "nice", maybe I'm not a born poster after all

I was a frankly pretty tough reviewer 1 on a paper a few months ago and the authors did a substantial revision that responded to most of my concerns!! Feelin like a real contributor to the project of scholarship lol