that said, a few hours ago I tripped and fell face-first towards a desk and when I caught myself at the absolute last second I was so close to impaling myself on the corner that I felt it brush my eyelid. 0/10 don't recommend, no jokey jokes to be found on this one tbh I'm still kind of shaken up

I make little jokey jokes about being a fall risk but tbh it's nowhere near the problem that it used to be (ADHD meds have made a significant improvement in my spatial perception) and while I'm definitely still clumsier than the average person I'm not like, catastrophically wiping out on the regular

"Your job is so fun," yes, but did you know I have to single handedly fight no fewer than sixth algorithms every day for the privilege of telling people to not set their beds on fire.

I need you to know that we say "that's her that's the princess" all the time now

folks who want cheap vanilla beans: my fun little cult is doing a group order of Madagascar Bourbon Cure V. planifolia (the most common variety, if you've seen vanilla beans at the store it was probably these) at $6/oz right now which is the cheapest I've ever seen it cdsheffer.tech/order_form.p...

HORRIBLE

my MIL really only believes people can have ADHD as part of having other significant learning disabilities, meanwhile all three of her siblings and both of her children have been diagnosed with it and she drinks caffeine to help her fall asleep

Two lines of three dimensional sans-serif letters colored in gradients of blue and purple reading ‘Maybe it will/Happen today’. Above the ‘y’ in’ today’ and with its bottom point nestled neatly into the fork of the letter it’s a similarly dimensional golden pentagram with little flares of golden light glinting off its vertices. The entire lockup is superimposed over a glittering rainbow as it all streaks together through a black void.

I've done two full sections so far so this is like square 60 for me but I've been working on it for over a year lol

we took Luna to the park earlier and Mel left to go pick up food across the street and Luna was so mad she refused to move until she could see Mel again

I think we're on almost exactly the same square?

post the best picture ever taken of your pet

I think the only birthdays I requested off on purpose were 2013, 2014, and 2024. the only birthday I've ever worked in person was in 2022 but it was a half day because I had an appointment with my orthopedic surgeon, 2021 and 2025 were remote

the first birthday I worked was my 30th by total happenstance (always fell on a day off, someone else asked me to switch, etc) but whether or not I take it off now depends on when it falls. I took a three day weekend when it was on a Monday in 2024 but I'm working next Wednesday

i agree with this but it's also like

cruel but obviously untrue: funny
cruel but i'm unsure: hurtful
cruel and obviously true and i already know: funny again

weekly housekeeping, and if I was stupid rich I'd put Emily on retainer

OH NO

every NYC elected official should have to spend a morning in family court too tbh

having the kind of day where I already requested Friday off and spent my lunch break like "what if I just went to Iceland this weekend"

you were fucked up for DAYS

had a great time while we were in the city

THE WIMPY KID FROM BUFFY??????

DANNY STRONG DID THE BOOK????

ALSO the running theme of this show has more or less universally been "this is CHESS we only care about CHESS nothing matters but CHESS" and this production was like "yeah sure chess but also if you fuck this up bad enough we could get nuked"

there's a lot that's not subtle and some kind of meta narration that I didn't entirely love but they also kind of had to be a little more obvious about it because at this point it's a period piece, the audience isn't going to have a baseline knowledge of the context

it's still not a *good* show overall, but this production has more good parts than not, and the not-good parts are at least interesting and serve a purpose

the next time we see *him* he's waking up with no clothes on in a Bangkok strip club, doing a line of coke off a stripper's leg, and delivering his TV commentary while speaking so fast that it sounds like the clip's playing at 2x speed

so she storms out and *the next time he sees her* she's kissing the Russian she promised she wasn't cheating on him with, at a meeting set up by the KGB, and on her way out the door after breaking up with him she STEALS HIS MEDS (that last bit under duress)

and the thing is!!! THE THING IS!!! he does have legitimate delusions!! but Florence is always the one to be like "no it's okay they didn't put microphones in your teeth take your meds" and he chills out BUT THEN he accuses her of working with the Soviets and she's like "fuck you obviously I'm not"

Freddie: they have fucking hypnotists in the front row and they keep making the lights buzz louder and louder and that guy coughed on purpose and they bugged my room

Florence: no they didn't, take your meds

Molokov, 5 minutes ago: we hired a hypnotist and fucked with the lights and bugged his room