showing my mom where the refinery exploded

stay down Chevron we hate you

went out for drinks with people the department thinking that I had not yet made much of an impression on anybody, but it turns out that I've made an extremely positive impression on basically everybody. Common scallop W

a "trade magazine"? intriguing......

You won't hear about it in any David Attenborough documentaries, but sometimes a scallop is a woman in her early 30s who moves to Los Angeles to do a PhD

"Hole in the wall" gets thrown around in reference to restaurants more often than housing these days, but my apartment really is reminiscent of the kind of place where a cartoon mouse (or rat) would live

time is lowkey on our side

The prophet Jonah 🤝 Scallop: keep at it or you'll be swallowed by a whale

I remain optimistic about the potential for transsexual life in this country in this sense: my memory is long, I am willing to continue participating in transformation of the society I live in, and I have chosen to suspend, for the time being, my judgment about the ultimate meaning of our suffering.

the citation ("³⁵") isn't in the original: this is a screenshot from Imani Perry's biography of Hansbury, which I’ve been reading instead of cleaning my apartment. (My mom is visiting tomorrow). But I just finished it, so now I really do have to clean my apartment.

an entry from Lorraine Hansbury's diary, 1 April 1960

from TOWARDS A NEW MANIFESTO

hanging in there

??? ?

I'm gonna be honest with you: the first time I saw footage of a scallop swimming, I thought it was fake

one scallop after another

weird as hell flavor at the ice cream place today: pickled strawberry?? It was good though. Obviously I'm gonna sample that

It limits my perspective in some ways: I don't claim to be from Seattle, San Diego, Michigan bc I just cannot answer too many follow-up questions about what it is like to live in the places I have lived. But it also affords me a unique vantage: I see things about the country that most do not, cannot

My sibling had kind of the opposite response to this aspect of how we came up: they moved to Chicago for undergrad and stayed. I doubt they'll ever leave. Meanwhile, I live like Paul Erdős: I just kind of show up places and hope to solve more problems than I cause

I like being a drifter but people are really reluctant to accept "I'm not really from anywhere in particular within the United States" when they ask where you're from. But the extreme itineracy is not even the weirdest part of either my upbringing or current lifestyle though, even if unrelatable

"The oil refinery has exploded!" is my "Lana Turner has collapsed!"

[the guy who built my neighborhood 100 years ago] What this beach needs is a huge oil refinery

the academic CV is a narrative genre. Few know this.