Welp, the errands will have to wait. #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

When your coworker informs you that your office is hot, but you’re wearing a wool sweater over a cotton sweater and wondering if you can get away with turning on the space heater. #officeairconditioning

Well hello to you too, Quadratus Lumborum! Please be civil when you’re speaking to me.

Just discovered that my phone doesn’t recognize the phrase “pissing me off.” Must rectify that immediately.

Is there something wrong with me that I don’t want to go to Staff Fun Day this afternoon because I’ll just get further behind in my work?

Boudicca sends greetings from the top of the fridge.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/116416105087839841

I need a good rage read for this summer.

Learn Lutheran jargon along with me: "Congratulations! You've been entranced!" Unfortunately it doesn't mean that a magician has cast a spell on you, or that you've just been introduced to the most attractive, charming person you've ever encountered. It means you've entered the candidacy process for becoming a Lutheran pastor or deacon. The noun "entrance" has been verbed. Now you know and so do I! #Lutheran #candidacy

Here’s a nice little song you can sing to your cats at mealtime (to the tune of Down To The River To Pray): “Oh kitties, let’s go down, come on down, don’t you want to go down. Oh kitties, let’s go down, down to the kitchen to eat.” In my experience, they *do* in fact want to go down to the kitchen to eat. #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

Just got home from a contentious book club discussion of Stone Yard Devotional. I was shocked by some people’s hatred of the narrator, and based on that, I know who in the group I would not go to if I needed empathy. #bookclub #bookstodon

I’m reading a recently published book where the main character, a researcher, is avoiding the librarian who’s trying to help him with his project because he thinks he’s an annoying weirdo. The librarian may in fact be an annoying weirdo, but I bet he has the key to the researcher’s project. Listen to your librarians, people! #bookstodon #librarians

Staff retreat at a nature center today. There was a display of different kinds of animal poop in the bathroom.

The old #Lynley was better.

This radish is the size of a pear. What happened to the dainty little radishes of my youth? Signed, a Gen X curmudgeon.

Time to get up. Right now. #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

Hermes ran outside when I took the trash out. It turns out all he wanted to do was go around to the side of the house and roll in the dead catnip plant. #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

I have this recurring happy/excited dream where I’m moving to Milwaukee. I’ve never actually spent time there, though I’ve ridden the train through a few times. Why is it calling to me in my dreams? Ideas? Wrong answers cheerfully accepted.

What stage of #authoritarianism is it when you’re relieved the bad thing is happening to someone else? I hate that I am relieved it’s El Paso’s airport that is shut down instead of MSP. FU, 47, for giving me occasion to feel this.

The sadness at the bottom of the morning mug of tea.

I don’t want to leave the house, but I don’t want to miss my book club meeting. Which of these desires will prove stronger? Tune in at 10 Central.