stage fright is my kryptonite.
but like i am addicted to kryptonite.

if you're feeling scared or stupid but you get up to sing anyway, i will cheer you so loud i will get the whole room going.

lucy hoversleeping.

status update:

nutritive slurm.

right? exactly.

also, this lyric isn't insane. it's just a bizarre number of syllables to mash into a line and try to make it scan.

turns out i've misheard that lyric my whole life. it's "olympus," not "an empress."

i am feeling grief for the loss of my own lady mondegreen.

i know that i must do what's right,
sure as kilimanjaro rises like an empress above the serengeti.

tis the heart of an ox.

🫂

drop your crime-fighting catholics.

i have a couple half-marathons coming up in the next month 😊

i ran today too! 12.26 miles. great weather, warm and gray and breezy, weird rain drizzles...

This is HUGE

never heard that before.

👋😊

roaches and mice, mostly. rats. glllllgh.

it's me, lucy, giving some side eye from a pile of mostly dry, mostly brunette hair, lying in me bed.

abed.

i love old pictures of fruit

Sonny, Cher, Chaz, and Cui

Tree swallows in the golden hour
#Birds

i think students using ai for homework even a little bit can be really bad. its just the 'I just need a little help to get started' problem all over again where they don't realize that 'getting started' is usually always the hardest part of any problem even though it doesn't go on the page

it's a stage en route to lesbianism.

elephant disembarking a train via a ramp. a group of children are near. a small girl gives the clenched fist salute or an anarchist

'An elephant arrives in New York for the circus at Madison Square Garden'
Paul Rice, 1963

2/2 Pomegranate tree c. 1665 by artist-naturalist Maria Sybilla Merian, who was born OTD in 1647.

Pomegranates, shells, and a stag beetle because everybody had to do one of those. By Maria Sibylla Merian, whose day is today.

nothing wrong with childlike wonder and a love of learning, even if sometimes all that brightness can burn.

carbee goons.

cheam creems!

i'm sorry.