Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

part of me worries that my students must think i have so many guest speakers because i'm really desperate to convince a bunch of 20 year olds that I have friends

A durational performance piece where some rocks weather down and mingle with microbes and plant matter and become soil

To be performed for some other rocks

Have to go to a fancy wedding in a few months and feeling a little called out by how much guidance I'm getting from r/lesbianfashionadvice

One thing that helps me understand how so many Americans can convince themselves of totally insane things is that I am constantly convincing myself that I'm a bad person and everyone hates me despite all evidence to the contrary. People will believe just about anything even if it's not in their self interest!

It's a real "woke up at five in the morning and just started crying and that more or less set the tone" kind of day

what a time to have contributed to writing a research guide for critical study of logistics and supply chains (for an NEH grant of all things)

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-119/ this week in sentences: not lessons, third-tier bands, the only antidote, satisfied and mocking, Encounters Epistemology, she caught her breath, gemstones, shoe shop, beige ooze

"is a jabroni a kind of cryptid"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-118/ this week in sentences: instruments, personality, eight-thirty in the morning, the reigning, every shower curtain, a tumor, clowns, Absent God, sadder, like The Purge, breathless, Germans

I really miss my dog today

Like as an adjunct I appreciate them letting me know before the announcement went out through the campus wide announcements, but how exactly do they think having a rejected applicant in the audience is going to go

I can't believe that the TT job I got rejected for invited me to the job talks

Okay that was really good

Bye AAG, I had a terrible time and cried a lot because prior to and during the conference I had some absolutely terrible work shit go down. I feel bad I wasn't able to be cool and fun and present. But I'm going home early so I can deal with my shit and not bring it to the conference.

Getting a lot of laughs IRL explaining my bad academia situation with the line "to be fair it was my mistake trusting a white woman"

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-117/ this week in sentences: filth, plumbing snake, Paris traffic, baby-shit soft, two topics, inconveniently shaped, shields, pigmenting, field intoxication, several sizes, now-gone, risk, movies, fertile ground

Absolutely not a proportional response on my part, to be clear, I contain a darkness that poisons all it touches

"I hope her son grows up to be an incel and she has to spend the rest of her life wondering what she did wrong"

Revisionist history is bad but the Cole Escola play "Oh, Mary!" is good