whenever i offer a hypothetical, anything starting with “what if…?” my 18yo just lifts an eyebrow, makes penetrating eye contact, and intones “MANY THINGS ARE POSSIBLE”

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 6d ago

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris

there’s a jimothy in roku city

“they move in herds!”

filling the pill calendars, as one does

showing my ID at the bagel shop bc i’ve got a discount thanks to my medical conditions

it finally happened: my child told their father that he needs to stop breathing so loudly, i am vindicated

breaking in the latest therapist

we had a set of Encyclopædia Britannica six years older than me and i read them all repeatedly

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

another day, another opportunity for teen and me to dress identically (black tee, blue jeans) without consulting each other—with added bonus of i’m more teenager-y than they are (graphic tee, wide leg jeans)

a really cool thing this week is that husband is playing lots of gigs and comes home very late and isn’t using his CPAP so now i’m getting at most four hours of sleep together overnight again

what should we put on our dessert-for-dinner crêpes? we have jams, lemon curd, whipped cream, fresh berries, i guess i could cook down some of these peaches?

my belovèd human child is in the throes of Long Summer+Impending College and zero things that i say/offers of help/suggestions of activities are currently met with anything but irritation. i hate that we both saw this coming and could not avoid it

love to have my blood pressure taken within a minute of being dragged down a medical office hallway at the 20-something nurse’s idea of appropriate walking speed, extremely realistic and highly representative

absolutely jonesing for lizard companionship, need a small creature to gaze upon me disdainfully and my human child will leave in like a month Mr Snuggins is irreplaceable but i do believe other lizards can achieve equivalently judgmental behaviors if not such articulate facial expressions

i saw a new-to-me practitioner this week in a televisit and he claimed he would be a significantly worse doctor if he had to write out notes instead of using the transcription LLM while we spoke which definitely set the tone imo

Alyssa Long@measuredandslow.bsky.social · 2w ago

And here’s the thing: refusing to let them use AI in a dr office often results in an attitude from the provider - which as a human I can *kind of* understand because nobody has enough time, but as a patient having to weigh AI fucking me over or an annoyed dr fucking me over is…not a great choice

a generational talent

Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

having a perfectly normal little cry about putting the toothbrush designated for lizard scrubbing into the dishwasher for circle of life reasons

my kingdom for a neuro person who wants to treat me for my stated problems (fatigue, brain fog) and not get utterly derailed by my singular PTSD event (vs my repeated trauma from medical interactions)

starting an art class with kiddo tonight and it’s going to be humbling af but hopefully fun (teen is a semi-pro art award winner who’s currently spending all day every day involved in #ArtFight)

are you telling me that thc helps cbd to work and i was wasting my money all those years on cbd alone

Without saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18? (I’m choosing the first rewatched >5x favorite that came out after my birthday bc it was a very good year)

kate@thekatriarch.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm pretty sure I saw it three times in the theater

doing dragon death cleaning and it’s just so horrible i can manage only one-two choreparts before my heart aches too much. trying to psych myself into ~~waiting~~ for the october herp show and being open to whatever calls to me there

Nathan Lane plays a man.

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3w ago

A burnt-out employee makes a rounding error.

tell you what, i am NOT happy with this no-lizard life. i’m a lizard girl. i miss my lizard(s). there have been snakes, there was a delightful turtle, but it’s all about lizards for me since age 8. i hate being lizardless. i miss Mr Snuggins something fierce.

in my feelings

looking like this is Mr Snuggins’s last day or days

maybe it’s cyclospora, maybe it’s my usual gut stuff flaring; how will we ever know?

my kid has booked their own flight for the first time and their patter about how ridiculous the process is makes me feel like i’ve raised an absolute throwback. they’re like WHO NEEDS THIS MUCH 2FA and I’M SUPPOSED TO PAY THAT MANY DOLLARS FOR AN UBER? NOPE, I’LL TAKE THE TRAIN

no, not Sam Neill! i know everyone’s talking about Jurassic Park and paleontology, but he also played an astronomer in The Dish with such a competent urgency that i thought i wanted to drop everything and join NASA. go find it if you haven’t seen it. what a lovely man he seems to have been 💔

when my kid earned their license i bought paper road atlases and maps and put them in the car. the car has a nav system. the ability to understand information by physically holding it can never be overvalued

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 4w ago

Can’t lie, the fact that y’all were driving with PAPER maps is insane. Even worse, you had to ask random strangers for directions??