realized that i graduated college FIFTEEN years ago this weekend, which is just bananas. i changed majors several times so i was a semester ~late. after my ceremony and a little party at a dive bar, i wrote the final draft of my thesis in one sitting, emailed it to my advisor, and never looked back.

no, not fair.

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:

she is christmas.

[prisencolinensinainciusol lyrics]

follow spicy-brain pals: i picked up this little manatee-shaped fidget by the cash registers at a local hallmark over the weekend and it’s been wonderful. no metal (i hate when metal gives fingers That Smell), light but not too light, lots of textures and ways it can be manipulated

(we always put up our christmas trees a few days before we intend to add ornaments so smidge can get it out of her system)

my degrees of separation from the pope have suddenly shrunk

this graph broke me and pieced me back together over the course of reading it. i’ll be sitting with it for a while tonight, and keeping it near. thank you, @themountaingoats.bsky.social.