Since there's little room in the bio:
1. I'm an ecology/botany professor, late mid career
2. At a largely underfunded public regional
3. I enjoy hiking but don't get to enough
4. I knit, quilt, crochet, but not as much as I once did
5. I am too busy, and I think the pandemic took something from
1. I'm an ecology/botany professor, late mid career
2. At a largely underfunded public regional
3. I enjoy hiking but don't get to enough
4. I knit, quilt, crochet, but not as much as I once did
5. I am too busy, and I think the pandemic took something from
01:32 PM - Feb 16, 2023
yeah I'm still here. there's too many social media places where my friends have diasporaed themselves to so I guess I have to rotate my way through four or five locations just to see people
I hate all this. I wish all my friends were nearby so I could see them in person and,
I hate all this. I wish all my friends were nearby so I could see them in person and,
04:50 PM - Jul 04, 2023
Once again I am thinking about how my department decided we had to turn down the boxes of cookies, donuts, etc. that texbook reps offered because we were state employees and that might look like graft.
And yet, people far more powerful than us accept much larger gifts and insist it's fine.
And yet, people far more powerful than us accept much larger gifts and insist it's fine.
08:45 AM - Jun 21, 2023
this stuff grows wild in my yard (OK). I don't spray or anything, I just cut it down/pull it out before it sets fruit so I don't get overrun
03:21 PM - Jun 16, 2023
OFC he's getting special treatment where the booking process is easier than it would be for, say, some random unknown white 70-something guy
02:00 PM - Jun 13, 2023
Can you IMAGINE, though, the vitriol that would be spewed from some quarters today about this good and gentle man?
11:28 AM - Jun 12, 2023
holy crap, he's doing a RALLY today? Yikes, man, big big yikes
04:06 PM - Jun 10, 2023
In light of the indictments, I find myself once again remembering how I sat with absolute horror on January 6, 2021, watching what was happening on tv/the internet. Remember we were still in the middle of a deadly pandemic and I'd not left the house much for 10 months
11:35 AM - Jun 10, 2023
Horrible thought, but: I would be less disgusted by the "document keeping" if he had been ideologically motivated, like, if he thought he could cause some kind of change in how the US did things by sharing info. But apparently it was all "look at me I'm a big man who has state secrets."
08:14 AM - Jun 10, 2023
Chris Licht's tenure leading CNN lasted about 400 days, or 40 scaramuccis.
09:27 AM - Jun 07, 2023
But when you're alone as much as I am in the summers (academic on a small campus where there are few in person summer classes and no one is around), things like that loom large.
04:16 PM - Jun 06, 2023
somewhere else I hang out there's one person in the group. If I say "b**** eating crackers" some of you will know what I mean. But anyway, once again they said something that rubbed me the wrong way and makes me think "oh they think I'm stupid" and I just am not engaging with it
04:15 PM - Jun 06, 2023
you're really old when your doctor says you shouldn't take ibuprofen any more (because of some chronic issues) and to use tylenol instead, so you have bathroom tylenol and with-your-regular-med-bottles tylenol, and office tylenol...
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12:43 PM - Jun 06, 2023
this is true but I would prefer to have better ventilation than to have to just wear a mask 24/7 in the bad-air future.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytranReminder: The tools that protect us from #COVID — masks, air filters, and structural policies like expanded healthcare access — are the tools that we need to protect us from the #climate crisis, which is causing a decrease in air quality and increase of disease outbreaks.12:07 PM - Jun 06, 2023
12:40 PM - Jun 06, 2023
I feel this every day of my life now, on social media and also the news. (I am the girl, the news/badness of the world is the grapefruit)
11:52 AM - Jun 05, 2023
I've also really, really lost my ability to make new friends since 2020, and at the same time I am increasingly misanthropic given how I saw some people treat their "neighbors" these past few years
And yet: I am lonesome. I miss people.
And yet: I am lonesome. I miss people.
11:30 AM - Jun 05, 2023
what do you do when a system you've been part of your entire life, and value, has a large number of people who are.... not really abiding by what you were taught were its tenets?
11:23 AM - Jun 05, 2023
No Im not watching the stupid thing, but I'm seeing people that are watching react to it
09:51 PM - May 10, 2023
So I guess sexual assault is a fit subject to joke about now? I hate this society.
09:50 PM - May 10, 2023
i hate these times we are in. well, all times, I guess in the past it would have been even given MORE of a pass than now
11:14 AM - May 10, 2023
the fact that some men find rape a fit subject to joke about just reminds me to be VERY careful and suspicious around men I don't know extremely well. And probably to be careful around the ones I know well, for that matter, given some of the cases of abuse i've heard
11:14 AM - May 10, 2023
just saw a tiktok (elsewhere) where a young woman audiorecorded men (sounded like older men, Booomers or silent gen) were joking about "he didn't know her, he just raped her" and similar and......I know my male friends aren't like that but....
11:13 AM - May 10, 2023
okay, wrote my summer syllabus (a graduate level class in advanced biostats) and the questionnaire to find out what the students want me to cover as "optional" topics, so I think I go eat lunch and then try to knock down the weeds in my back yard a little
01:27 PM - May 08, 2023
Just having a real sad day today, folks. There are too many terrible people in the world who see their fellow humans as "NPCs" and apparently have no compunction against harming them.
I'm legitimately afraid to go to the grocery store now, let alone shop at a mall :'(
I'm legitimately afraid to go to the grocery store now, let alone shop at a mall :'(
04:13 PM - May 07, 2023
I also have BAD memories of that task and bad associations because it was dropped in my lap (by someone departing for a better-paid, lower-work job) just a couple weeks after my dad died, when I was in deep grief, and they gave me NO help getting started. (I will help my colleague figure it out)
04:05 PM - May 03, 2023
well, one good thing that happened today: I had a service task (I am a college prof) that I HATED and felt like it brought me little value. My chair today asked me if I was "okay with" passing that task to a colleague in need of doing more service...
04:04 PM - May 03, 2023
Today at the Huntington Gardens. Echinopsis 'Flying Saucer'. Family Cacteacea.
Late season, everything is still spectacular. Take a trip to Pasadena!
#gardening
Late season, everything is still spectacular. Take a trip to Pasadena!
#gardening
09:08 PM - Apr 28, 2023
Better to thank them to their face now, than to talk about how much you valued them at their funeral.
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ManKillah Fruitface @FruitFacedFruitKace10:49 PM - Apr 28, 2023
11:10 PM - Apr 28, 2023
seeing 'lifestyle news' stories on "the return of mending" and for some of us? It never left.
of course now it's a save-the-earth thing rather than a "frugal" thing.
of course now it's a save-the-earth thing rather than a "frugal" thing.
10:05 AM - Apr 26, 2023
