The presidential immunity arguments at the US Supreme Court today:

The fact that the US SCotUS is even listening to this, and that some of the justices seem to think there's any shred of rationality to this at all, is literally enough to make my stomach hurt. The implications of the PotUS having blanket immunity from prosecution are unimaginable. ( Read more... )

I ordered a bike trailer today for doing grocery pickup. It has the largest carrying box of the ones that were not hugely expensive. It's not as highly rated and reviewed as some, but it seems like it's likely to be decent. I get really anxious spending any significant amount like this: I fear I'll get the wrong thing and have wasted the money. But ( Read more... )

I wanted to go for a ride but my ears get cold at this temperature. Just now, I looked in my bike stuff I brought up from Kenosha and I found one, but not the other, of the ear-cover flaps I'd forgotten about that came with my bike helmet. I looked through everything and couldn't find it the other one, and it felt symbolic of the many things, ( Read more... )

After getting home from a bike ride yesterday, I blocked three people who left a laugh react on Facebook to a picture of me I posted publicly some time ago: one of me shortly after getting my hair done at the salon. I changed it to friends only, but I suppose my picture is probably out there getting passed around somewhere anyway. It's the second ( Read more... )

Today, Miriam and I are going to our first in-person thing since getting elastomeric masks. We haven't had them professionally fit-tested yet, but her supervisor has strongly suggested she come to the post-doc appreciation reception they're holding. I'll have to make sure to get a big lunch since we won't be eating until we're back and I'd hate to ( Read more... )

I looked at 538's predictions on the upcoming US midterm for the first time yesterday, and the result is not helping with my depression.

I'm near-completely inactive these days, especially this past week or so. Even when I'm not sleeping, which is a lot of the time, I kind of wish that I was? I spend a lot of the time I'm awake pointlessly scrolling ( Read more... )

This was my trip back home from the canal today.



I just realized that that trip (13.1 miles) is only a little bit longer than my one-way trip to work at Rush, which was nearly exactly a half-marathon. Yes, that was definitely easier a year ago...

I took a 26 mile / 42 kilometer round trip by bike to a spot on the North Sea Canal about 12 kilometers from the center of Amsterdam. I'd scouted around on Google maps and it seemed like a good place to watch commercial shipping. Far enough west that basically all the ships going to or coming from the north sea should go by before stopping ( Read more... )

I started getting a feel for my new bike a couple days ago. Compared to my physical condition prior to grad school, I'm in awful shape. But cycling the Dutch countryside is fantastic!
I expect I'll be avoiding Amsterdam for the foreseeable future.



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This depression/anhedonia/lack of motivation is getting worse.
I need to get some library schools apps ( Read more... )

I've been pretty crazy lately. As a mentally ill person, that's the best shorthand for me to explain the complicated issues that I'm dealing with that make it hard for me to function well ( Read more... )