Well at least I dont have to stay up past my bedtime to watch this garbage game.

Stop making us look at Matt Ryan’s stupid face, ESPN!

So glad I went out of my West Coast way to watch this game. 😒 Ah, well. It’s nice to have the full Saints experience! ⚜️

Every damn week, they preempt Jeopardy for Monday Night Football and the *one* week I want to watch, it’s only on ESPN?!

I’m supervising a high school intern this school year. He comes to the office on Weds and 1 Mon/ month. Only realized today was his Monday in the office when I got a text from him asking to be let in. I was working from home. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Thanks to e-bike, I was able to get over here in about 20 min.

Woke up in a panic at 4:30 am when I remembered that I had a presentation this morning that I hadn’t finished the slides for. Got to work early, finished slides. Computer crashed and wouldn’t restart, so I had to present on my phone without slides or notes. Happy freakin’ Friday!

I usually go into the office on Thursdays, but it became Fall all of a sudden this week and I can’t find my rain pants. So work from home it is! 🌧️

Turns out I’m not coming to NOLA this weekend after all. Hoping I can come down for the rescheduled second line, but will wait until things are more official before making my travel plans.

Booked a plane ticket to NOLA for the Krewe of Dolly’s second line. I renewed my membership last week with the intention of skipping Carnival parades in 2027, but I can’t skip this.

📚💕🦋💕📚

WuTangIsForTheChildren@wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dolly was a saint and will be remembered always….great piece on her Imagination Library that has now gifted more than 325M books to kids

Intellectually, I knew we couldn’t keep her on this plane forever, but it hurts to lose Dolly from this world.

The Citizens United ruling continues to have far-reaching impacts. Companies make our food supply less safe through legislative delays and political influence, causing illness and burdening our health systems. If you’re tired of the graft and greed, you’re not alone. 70 days til midterm elections.

Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · 2mo ago

Following major lobbying and campaign spending from the food industry, an important safety rule was delayed for years. Then came the cyclospora outbreak. bit.ly/4xN3MQt

My cousin took me to his super secret U-Pick spot out in the country today.

Bridge Pedal was super fun!

Instacart, what are you trying to do to me?! 💩

Had a wild weather/atmosphere day yesterday as we drove to Bend. Wild fire smoke was visible as soon as we got out of Portland. It continues to get thicker and darker as we drove further south.

Went to Astoria this weekend for a comedy show. Bonus side quest was kitting up a church rummage sale on $5 bag day.

I’d really prefer to have public health experts score my grant applications than some political party’s goons.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We've hit the 3,000 mark in letters to Congress on the mad power-grab by Russell Vought at OMB to take over all federal grant making with a team of political commissars reporting to him. Let's get to 4,000 letters this week. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Took our bikes on a bus ride this afternoon (then rode home via the Springwater Trail).

Yesterday I received requests to revise work plans for 3 of my federal grant applications w/ a turnaround time of 5 business days. By the end of the day, I received notices of award for all of them. In case you’re wondering how well the basic systems of the federal government are working these days.

CDC is cutting funding for one of my programs by nearly 50% for the next budget year… which starts next week. Hope your work day is going better than mine!

One of our CDC project officers told us that he’ll be out for the 3 months as he’s being deployed for Ebola response. On the one hand, I’m glad to see the US helping with the response. On the other, I hope project officer will be OK! I hope they can get this shit under control quickly.

I'm clearing out some art & craft supplies that have been sitting here bothering me for too long. It's time for them to go to new homes. windisebrenart.etsy.com/listing/4524...

Glad to see all y’all NOLA folks made it through this morning’s weather OK!

I felt off all morning and figured it was just because I was having trouble getting back into the weekday groove after being away for the weekend. I just realized I only drank about 1/3 of my cup of coffee today. 😳

I bought this squeezy bottle of condensed milk last weekend and have already used like half of it making Vietnamese iced coffees.

Ronald Reagan died on this day in 2004. Today would be a great day for it to happen.

Slept like shit last night after an emotionally fraught evening. This time of year between my mom’s birthday and her death date is hard.

The office is usually a ghost town on Fridays. But today, I’m here, my boss is here, and my boss’s boss is here. Why? Public health knitting club meets at noon.

Rode bikes and ate ice cream. Today was a good first day of false summer.