I did the seven stories exercise & put everything into a word cloud, combining related words & eliminating irrelevant words & ended up with this word cloud. I can’t make good alt text but contact me if you want the CSV word list.

🔖 Read More contagious version of omicron spreads in U.S., fueling worries.

This. The lifting of mask mandates. The expansion of what counts as high-risk.

Sigh.

Finished reading: Ninth House (Alex Stern Book 1) by Leigh Bardugo 📚

So good. It puts the academia in dark academia.

No YOU just ordered a Mini Tarot de Marseille.

I was going to ask what the best career path was for an insufferable know-it-all and then realized I should qualify the question with aside from academia.

Scene: Today’s Micro.blog Meetup

Them: I have writer’s block and was hoping to get ideas for how to bust through it.

Me: Let me tell you about my TNG fanfic where Data teaches Geordi improv.

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🔖 Not their first rodeo: How Black riders are reclaiming their place in cowboy culture

This is so cool and the pictures are phenomenal.

Me: I was so psyched about the topic and methods of my dissertation when I defended my proposal in February 2020, but I find it hard to get psyched about that stuff right now. What happened? A personal failing, probably.

Also me: A pandemic and your mom got leukemia.

Me: Oh yeah.

I’m RSVPing to IndieWeb Create Day on March 5, 2022. This might show up as a yes but it’s actually a maybe.

Me to W: I need to go be in the dark and quiet for a little while now because I’m overstimulated. There were so many people outside when M was playing.

Narrator: There were 4 people outside.