An entry in the “NJ Transit employee is So Done” folder-

Train conductor, verbatim: This is the airport station ….
Airport, airport, AIRPORT.
THIS IS THE AIRPORT STATION.
AIRPORT!!

Paid/filed my taxes

Hey Amtrak, where do you get of pricing coach tickets at $134? And there are more Acela trips that don’t offer coach tickets at all? It’s seriously approaching the cost of a car rental to take the train fuck this

When you’re awake until 3am bc of The Horrors, but also don’t manage to get any of the life admin tasks or even fun hobby stuff done in that time, also bc of The Horrors

scan of a gouache painting of Philly's mascot Gritty, a furry orange muppet with wild eyes, as a wrathful deity crowned with gold flames, dancing on modern imps of ignorance and cruelty, on the Columbia bridge over the Schuylkil, in front of a burning Cybertruck in the river, flanked by offerings of pretzels and Tastykakes. It holds up a progress flag on a hockey stick, a middle finger, a sprig of ginkgo, a big cup of Wawa coffee, one empty blessing hand, and a molotov cocktail ready to throw. The sky is pastel dawn colors over Fairmount Park.

so i don't live there now but i am From Philly, it's meaningfully part of me even 20+ years out

and i'm not into hockey but this guy has transcended mere hockey mascot, imo. i've been thinking about this kind of treatment for him basically since go & especially since they doubled down on the flag-

This is the weirdest cold I’ve had: the congestion symptoms are progressing normally, but the exhaustion and mental fog are going backwards?? The less congested I am the more exhausted I feel, why

Oh shit D:

I was cleaning my apartment but I saw A Bug and now I have to sit down and be freaked out for 15-20 min. Those are the rules

I am once again asking why I can’t just be someone’s Art Hermit for a living

God this time change is fucking with me more than usual

Probably should’ve just stayed in bed today el oh el

It’s only Tuesday and I’m exhausted

Would working from home tomorrow mitigate my depression or make it worse hmm. Though if I sleep thru my alarm it’ll be a moot point

Like, I get that I live in an inconvenient location to all of my friends and I guess that’s my fault and I should try more but damn it hits hard this year

Merry Christmas this is the saddest I’ve felt around the holidays since 2020

I make things (art) as a compulsion and there’s no way I’d stop or even want to reduce the time to make the things that’s the whole damn point I would make a chair right now if I had the space and materials I don’t give a shit

Will this gen ai bullshit bubble just burst already

It’s probably not a bad sign that I was going through my fabric stash and found something that I absolutely do not remember buying. Probably fine 😅

Well the seasonal depression has joined forces with the regular depression and shit sucks man

I know it’s not the most important thing in the world, but for once I would like to have a job that’s decent and not feel like I’m from a different planet than my coworkers. All the jobs I’ve had that I bonded with coworkers have been shit in every other way

Cartoon meme of Sonic the Hedgehog (from Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series, Jan 1994) lying down and looking smugly at the camera with a speech bubble that reads: “I want bad art made slowly by real people AND I'M NOT KIDDING”

the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now

I’m sorry what

That time of the year where I rediscover that I’m apparently solar powered and this is low ebb

New level of NJ Transit bus riding unlocked: two idiots started fighting each other as we were waiting for our bus’s turn to unload at port authority 🙃 I’ve never seen a bus empty that quickly once the doors opened lol

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

There are two mourning doves on my fire escape that have formed themselves into perfect spheres

Finished reading the 1818 version of Frankenstein. Still wish I could remember which version they had us read in hs. I guess I’ll be able to figure that on thanksgiving when I go to my parents’ since apparently that’s where my copy of the book ended up

A biiiig stretch
#ffxiv