Oh no! Well that puts my repeated mistake of using almond extract instead of vanilla in perspective. (I’m used to my almond bottle having a pink label, but this newish bottle has a brown one, and my brain just goes “vanilla”.)

She did like to bite book spines. I was pretty annoyed at the time, but now I get pleasantly sentimental when I come across her tooth marks

Yes! 🤞🤞

While I still miss my cat (we spent 20 years together), I can also acknowledge that she would have made laying this out at least 10x harder. She loved immediately crawling all over anything I put on the floor, especially if I was giving it any attention. She was the anti-help for studio operations.

Though gentle heat might work, even in humidity isn’t a factor. I should probably look up its melting/burn point. But if this stack doesn’t relax enough just from the book-weight treatment, I think I’ll try counter-rolling before I try heat.

I’m also not sure if that would work, since resistance to water is its selling point. It tends not to have the same “memory” that fiber-based papers do, which is why I was lax about unrolling them. I’m a little surprised they want to stay rolled!

My grandma used to sing the stanza — “You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant” — when she was cooking. And only that bit, which she would repeat periodically. I never heard the whole thing until I was an adult, though, long after she died

After fighting the workers’ union over a piddling increase in hourly minimum, then reneging on agreed-upon longevity pay for workers who’ve dedicated careers to the institution while struggling to pay rent on stagnated wages.

I am honestly surprised the mall held out as long as it did

I’m just so disgusted that someone making 3/4 of a million a year even felt a pay raise was appropriate at all after refusing to honor what amounted to around $1000 a year for a handful of employees, and fighting tooth and nail against a $1.75/hr minimum wage increase.

Given that the museum reneged on longevity pay for the longest-standing workers almost immediately after agreeing to a contract to end the labor strike, I’m betting not

So, so many

Ah! I wanted to hear that talk by Julia D’Amario! I had a personal conflict, alas, and promptly forgot about it. (I did some of the graphic design for the exhibition—JSMA at PSU is a regular client and I so enjoy working with them.) Thanks for sharing this

I so wish the city had kept the trolley lines. Just imagine!