Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-120/ this week in sentences: culinary weapons, heresy, bricks, pillaging, groveling, Beaver Derivative, microwave, typo, doing historical materialism, detectable hazard, throes of hagiography, waterpark, Nevada-style

Feels like most mental health modalities I've tried have really failed to acknowledge that maybe it's the living in a dying empire and all the fascism that's contributing to my suicidal ideation

Pretty sure I will not make it through this year, not loving this for me

Just trying to live long enough to get to read Alecto the Ninth

The Warby Parker sales person asked if I wanted an "anti fatigue" lens thing on my new glasses and I said "no thanks I'll just do drugs" and I don't even really do drugs besides caffeine but I wanted to break up the monotony of the day for him

"When an oracle foresees your future based on eye gunk that's reading the rheum"

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