What were you Googling, Jason??

Yeah this is when we lead with empathy.

I read @bethmacy.bsky.social memoir Paper Girl this week and haven’t shut up about it since I started. It’s excellent. Go read it.

She’s also running for Congress in VA’s 6th, where I lived briefly. Go check that out too.

Have the rules been updated since 1992?

Connecticut has really been knocking it out of the park the last week.

My insta is basically all Taylor and this feed is utterly devoid of her. One of these things is not like the other. And this is not rainbow with all of the colors.

It is so. And I love Trollope.

I have a lot of problems with “can you forgive her”

TFW you see folks freak about the Canvas/OpenAI collab, announce they’re abandoning the LMS, and decamping to Google. Cause Google really has the moral high ground in the Ed-tech surveillance space.

I was really surprised when I moved here that NH was as vibrant as it is. I thought it was still extremely dangerous.

But I think the significantly can also be just “this three block radius from the school” and the surrounding area is incredibly economically depressed. The impact can be not well thought out and more largely detrimental.

Which is to say, local impact is really not consistent, even within the history of one institution

Vassar’s local impact has definitely varied over the decades. They’ve bought up a lot of the local real estate in the last 20 years. When I went, there was a very well-defined separation.

Springtime in New England = I am freezing, with swollen and bloodshot eyes from the pollen.

Could have been worse. Remember the clamp.

I got a shower cap for making my bread this week. It is cute and it brings me joy.

I hope everyone finds their bread shower cap this weekend.

If you are a perimenopausal lady, you just need to eat more protein.

When I was a grad student the dept office manager hired me for the 1st week of every semester. My job: sit at a desk blocking the door to the main office under a sign w/room & bathroom directions & tell students the info that was on the sign so they didn’t bother the office staff. Best job ever

Do we believe either of those? Really?

I don’t like it either. But I’m a “I’m that bitch” person. They don’t super vibe.

@nytimes.com you really need to rethink what counts as breaking news. College football coach retiring is not breaking news.

I’m leaning into crotchety.

Opinion | Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard Is Bigger Than Me The demagogues won’t stop with Harvard.

Class act in response to a series of crass acts by ass cracks.

www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/o...

This is the social media content we need.

I’ve had a pretty bad cold for the last week (I hate children), but I’ve learned that all I want for the new year is to be able to eat and breathe at the same time.

I’m about to start reading Fourth Wing. This better be as good as book TikTok says it is.

It’s the week before Xmas. If you’re legit working, you’re doing it wrong.

There’s a PDF. I think I can get a badge. It’s very modern.