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Finished bed with plants! #gardening

I've had bi-phasic sleep for years, ever since leaving adolescence. I'm tooting right now because of it!

I go to bed and generally I'm tired and cold. I wake up around midway and I'm not so knackered and I'm warm because my body heat has warmed the bed. I still get about 8 hours of sleep.

I use the time to doomscroll, listen to music or an audiobook, or think about stuff I'm going to do. #sleep
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Why do I find the idea of touching a spider to be an order of magnitude worse than touching an insect? It's only two more legs, but I just don't wanna.

I'm so glad that before I left Twitter I was able to have a short conversation (interaction?) with Loretta Swit to tell her how much her development of Maj Houlihan meant to me growing up. RIP 💔

Total persons disappeared by ICE 4,099 https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

It's so bizarre reading a novel partially set in 2021 with absolutely no mention of the pandemic. Like it never even happened. #bookstodon #COVID https://www.juliakellywrites.com/the-last-garden-in-england-1

Seeing the phrase "fast-paced" repeated several times in a job posting does not build excitement or confidence - it gives "I'm disorganized and expect you, the candidate, to drop everything to compensate."

My kid just WhatsApped from his German exchange trip. They had to call an ambulance for him.

He has food poisoning, was very pale and nauseous. He was dehydrated and his blood pressure was dropping.

He's fine now but I wanted to share this because it has the most Western Europe Is a Civilized Place ending ever.

The paramedics came to the mall, took him into the ambulance, gave him an IV, checked him out, stayed with him until he felt better, then told him "No charge. Enjoy your trip to Germany." And if that wasn't enough, when they realized the group had had to move onto the train station without him, they gave him a ride over there to catch up with them.

I'm so ground down by the predatory realities of America in general in 2025 that this just about blew my fucking mind.

The damask rose and the mock orange bushes are blooming already. Should be blooming in June.

I was puttering about on the patio with the plants and a raccoon walked by less than 2 feet away. I asked it, "um, are you ... aware that I'm here?"

And it didn't make eye contact or flinch but it did reverse direction and walk into an area with thicker shrubbery. Like it was simultaneously talking into an earpiece, "Hold up Carl, we gotta abort the mission - my stealth mode failed!"

I just realized that I have a physical pile of to-be-read books that I own, a physical pile of to-be-read books from the library, a to-be-read pile of book titles on post-it notes, a to-be-read pile of titles in my library app, and to-be-read tabs in almost every browser on almost every device.

I may have a problem.

What a surprise. The dumb bunny who spent the semester tittering in a corner and not paying attention to anything just gave a barely passable presentation on a macroeconomic topic. Only problem is this was a MICROeconomics class ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Funny thing: this is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXnulANF8g which I'm pretty sure I've never seen before. The song was in 1985, and my family didn't have cable then, so I couldn't have seen it on MTV or anything. Anyway, it's the point of view of someone traveling through an urban landscape on roads - not through open fields on a train. Like it rhymes with my dream, but isn't the same.

I just had a dream about a song, which I'm pretty sure I've never done before. I was dreaming about M*A*S*H like I was in the show watching it happen and somehow it swtiched to being on a train through fields of wheat (?) in Yorkshire in the summer and singing along to "Life in a Northern Town." Woke up with the song still in my head.

Question: my cat is a stress eater - ahe eats when she's anxious. She's also a cat who always wants more food. Which is a better approach, feeding her all at once, or in increments?

Just talked with a student who's never used a thumb drive. She's like 18-19 years old.

(I'm making them use a thumb drive for their presentation because dealing with everyone logging in and logging out takes too much time. Plugging in a drive is much faster.)

She's confident that she'll never need to know how to use one.

I got them all out and close to where the bed will be but I think that's enough manual labor for the day.

Here they are

Off to pick up a load of bricks through Freecycle!