I recommend fresh air.

If you listen carefully you can hear the giggling.

DNF : The Bookbinder, Pip Williams
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay, Jenny Lawson

3/23 - A Curious History of Sex, Kate Lister
3/29 - Apparently Sir Cameron Needs to Die, Greer Stothers
4/5 - The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
4/14 - Kingdom of the Wicked, Kerri Maniscalco
4/17 - Kingdom of the Cursed, Kerri Maniscalco
4/19 - For Whom the Belle Tolls, Jaysea Lynn

Over the weekend the work pace I’ve maintained for the last month smacked me in the head and said “AND STAY DOWN” so that’s what I’m doing today. Turns out one night of good sleep over the weekend wasn’t enough. I still have a long way to go re: balancing my life and setting boundaries.

A fonds, obvs. 😁

Threats to Library Funding End With Settlement by Trump Administration The American Library Association and a union of cultural workers filed a lawsuit arguing that cuts ordered by President Trump were illegal.

From The New York Times: ALA and AFSCME prevail in federal lawsuit, protecting federal agency responsible for library funding: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/arts/library-...

Tell your Senators to #FundLibraries in next year's budget: ala.org/showup

Seriously. We have more than enough WWII fiction. Give us Rome vs Persia!!

Really feeling “Seat By Your Side” by Rose Betts.

Today I learned that American West author Will James' birth name was Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault. That's a mouthful.

Custom clothes. Super tired of trying to buy plus size off the rack.

*glares at asparagus prepped for dinner*

Stupid cause and effect.

It continues to be extremely annoying that the “exercise helps your brain” people are right.

Finished exhibit installation. Excited for my two hour desk shift because it means sitting down.

On the upside, I just preordered three books coming out in the next year that I’m excited to read.

I am weary in body and soul.

Definitely putting energy into not setting stuff on fire with my brain.

I have not, no.

Went to see a play about women trying to help women in the pre-Roe era tonight and having a cry in the car because I don’t have those kinds of friendships in my life. Do friends-as-family only exist in fiction?

Feeling very “why bother”

So what you’re saying is this is another plot by the fishmen.

I know being tired makes brainweasels worse. It’s still frustrating when the sadness turns into physical pain. My hands ache when I’m really low, especially the knuckle joints.

Change isn’t always bad

They are a higher harm risk than clean, dry hands. With gloves on you can’t feel what you’re doing as well and are more likely to tear or damage pages trying to turn them, for instance.

We don’t wear gloves to handle old books anymore.

very glad as a verge subscriber and see this argument made with clarity and hard data!

V squeaky. Needs oiling.

Me too.

Soooo police just came and cleared the library. We all got kicked out. There’s something happening at the student union next door. Thankfully it’s spring break so campus is pretty empty but there are nearly a dozen police vehicles outside the union.