May was another incredibly full month, where you look back to where it started and it seems inconceivable that it all happened in the same month. I'm going to leave out all the work stuff.

Cars: At the end of April I took my car in for some caliper noise--100 miles later, while driving on the Interstate, I heard something clatter through my LF ( Read more... )

The last few weeks have been completely off the wall, but for part of it my sister and I drove across the country (she is moving from Boston to Modesto). We passed through Kansas in one shot, and about a third of the way through my sister asked, "What's a good stopping point for Jax?" (Her dog ( Read more... )

Me and you--my entire adult life. Literally, the whole thing. From the summer I turned 18, and visited Alaska for the first time. (I mean... it's the only time I've been to Alaska, but hopefully not the last.)

I've moved into 9 different homes with you. Nine.I've visited almost all the states (missing Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, ( Read more... )

The last couple days of 2019 I realized I'd seen like zero movies. (Well, I'd seen Toy Story 4, Hobbs and Shaw, The Farewell, and the latest Star Wars.) This made me feel culturally illiterate, so I decided I should up my game and try to watch some things I'd been meaning to get to. I ended up choosing Hell or High Water (2017), which is a heist ( Read more... )

Hello! finchandsparrow and I are on vacation together!! We're headed into the wilds, but we've already stopped at a quirky roadside motel (no front-facing windows, very short shower), eaten at a bar and grille (I had a "Beer Cheese Burger" with "extra oinks," for reasons), run through the darkness in a haphazard dash back to the room, walked in on our phone ( Read more... )

My annotation last night, on a section of outline for my dissertation: "I don't think this will be that bad."

Me now, trying to write it:


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A friend/colleague of mine recently published a creative nonfiction piece that I finally got a chance to sit down and read, and even though only an excerpt is available online (and I've only read said excerpt so far), I adored it, and I think some of you would really enjoy it, too, so I wanted to give it a rec ( Read more... )

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I was in Arizona on business a month ago, but made liberal use of my rental car to have the time of my life. I'm just now getting around to going through the pics I took, but I laughed out loud when I saw this one, because it really does look like an establishing shot from the opening credits of a Supernatural episode. So I took the liberty of ( Read more... )

I just read a lovely, rumination by Tag Christof (the photographer behind @americaisdead on Tumblr and Instagram). I wouldn't say it necessarily says anything, but it evokes a mood and a bowl of swimming thoughts that, as all good things do, eventually loop back around to Supernatural and what I love so much about it. <3"[T]he vast majority of ( Read more... )