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@emrem.bsky.social

she/they. cuban american born on the bayou. linguistics phd interested in speech perception and research translation. https://sites.google.com/view/ear-scicomm/

I love the Venmo social feed bc ever since I got off Facebook, it’s the best way to keep general tabs on a lot of my high school friends

One time, years ago and exactly one timed they had a Costco size bag of turtle chips at Costco and now I have to check for them every time like one of those dogs with a pie bush

I need to send a package but I have room to include something else but I can’t think of anything so now I haven’t sent the package even though I know that having it there earlier is more valuable to me than the “missed” opportunity of the empty space

I was shopping for a new bike helmet and Oleg was like “you should look at the Virginia tech ratings” and I was like hmmm yes, safety is probably a better metric for choosing a piece of safety equipment than whether it comes in green

My SO just asked me if I knew anyone named Jared and I got to remember this incident on the bus with this little shit where I couldn’t tell if he was bullying me for being fat or sexualizing me

It’s always so weird when you think you’re having a normal conversation and remember that not everyone is actually like anti-war as a basic starting position. Like I’m not here to debate individual military acts but like idk guys I think war is bad

I successfully made it several years without having to drive a car but I’ve been driving to the peninsula a bunch lately to see my sister and niece and like I’m pretty sure they must be hiring people to drive bad and (dangerously) slow to make me stop driving (it’s working)

My SO and I don’t have the craziest age gap (5 years) but what makes it really really noticeable is that he’s too old for spongebob. He can even accurately use many spongebob references but he’s never seen the source material

When I was little and me and my sister’s room got really bad, my mom would be like “don’t make me come in and sectorize it!” And idk why we hated that so much bc it just meant she broke it into sectors and assigned us to do specific parts at a time

Do tenants have any rights when it comes to 3d virtual tours of their homes and all of their belongings being posted on the Internet? I feel like I know the answer, but having actual in-person strangers in my actual in-person home feels less risky and less inconvenient.

LMAO woke up to landscapers cutting down the hedge that blocks my bedroom window from the street which was the only reason I felt comfortable having a bedroom that faces the street HAHAHAHA

Agreed to dance in a sangeet bc I love my friend so much and it’s such an honor but unfortunately I think the more loving thing may have been to be honest about my dancing abilities. Let’s just hope the theme of the dance is “Friendship” and not “Dancing”

One time in grad school the professor said something about Scylla and Charybdis and I made a face bc I didn’t know what those words meant and he said Emily are you okay you made a face and I said I don’t know what those words mean