My sleep deprived brain thought this was a giant parrot peeking out of a storage container.
13.03.2026 06:09
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My sleep deprived brain thought this was a giant parrot peeking out of a storage container.
Today's good news story: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #kakapo #NewZealand #birds
Photo looking up at a classic old frill pigeon with gray, white, and iridescent purple feathers.
And the latest photo of my pigeon Quill. #birds #pigeons #pigeonsky
Two cinnamon green cheek conure parrots sit on a white person’s hand eating safflower seeds.
Two cinnamon green cheek conure parrots perched in front of their cage looking cute.
Two cinnamon green cheek conures perched on their playstand.
Latest cute photos of Zephyr & Zonda, my #GreenCheekConures #ParrotSky
Turned in my midterm grades and now it’s officially spring break for me and unless I’m able to sleep, I fear my to do list is greater than my capacity.
Night four of bad insomnia as I try to teach my brain it’s possible to sleep without a certain med. And my brain says No, absolutely not. I hate this. I’m so tired.
I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop.
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This is more of a philosophical musing. Of course I know I’m not their therapist and I’m not trying to “cure” their anxiety. I try not to make my class scary, but speaking out loud about course materials is an important skill to build. It’s definitely a case by case basis.
Obviously when it’s a student with Official Accommodations I work with the disability office and the student to come up with the best solution, but as a disabled person myself, I know you can need accommodation w/o having official documentation & I do my best to make space for that.
It’s hard to balance accommodating students needs when they have anxiety with helping them build necessary skills and resilience. I’m now a prof but was a student too anxious to speak in class, so I’m very empathetic and I don’t think it’s very helpful to allow them to entirely avoid ever doing it.
I am so exhausted. I’m trying to quit one of my PM meds and it’s causing rebound insomnia. I timed it so that I’ll hopefully be over it by the end of Spring break next Sunday, but right now it is hell.
Off to give a midterm exam and then I’m on Spring break and I’m so excited to rest. Spring weather change is always hell on my chronic pain.
It definitely feels like there out to be a better system for verification of degrees earned. I have probably spent thousands on transcripts from all 3 schools over the years. What a racket.
Also I had not updated my CV in a long time. Or if I had, I can’t find the most recent copy of it. I also no longer will use Word bc of their subscription model, so I have to reformat everything. It’s all just needlessly complicated.
My transcript from my MFA uni not only lists degree awarded, but previous degrees and my GRE scores. Ugh, didn’t need that reminder of my inability to excel at a math exam. And my undergrad transcripts are from a school that didn’t used to give grades, which is one of the reasons I went there.
I asked them if I can show them my diploma and they said no, it has to be a transcript. So now I’m trying to get that sorted. I’ve worked here since 2016 & I have photos of my ceremony & my diploma & this sort of bureaucracy is maddening.
My uni was bought by another uni & for some reason this means that all employees have to resubmit all our paperwork to prove we are eligible to work there, which has meant getting copies of my transcripts & apparently my doctoral transcript doesn’t say I earned my PhD anywhere on it!!
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Also the sci-fi series I’m writing is very Jewish and makes me very happy. It is fun to imagine things like future halachic adaptations for space.
My original spring break plans fell through, but I’m on book 2 of a new book series I’m reading & I’m writing what I suspect will be a 4-book series (sci-fi! So fun!) and of course plenty of pets to cuddle and clean up after so I won’t have any lack of things to do.
I am writng a novel I've been trying to write for years, but I think it has finally found its final form, and it is so exciting. Still a long way to go, but I feel invigorated as I dive deeper into a creative project.
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
Two cinnamon Green-cheeked conures sit on a wooden perch in front of their large bird cage facing the camera.
Anyway, meet Zephyr & Zonda, a bonded pair of Green-Cheeked Conures I recently adopted from my local parrot rescue. They were severely neglected in their previous home and I’m completely obsessed with them.
I recently devoured three novels by Charlotte McConaghy & right now I just want to read 10 more books exactly like this, with this focus on animals and climate change and ppl who fear they're fucked up beyond repair, because SAME. Any suggested reads for me?
::shrug:: It's ok, it's just how things are. The image is accurate.
I can't afford to get a new laptop, so I'm limping along with these two and it is silly how much more difficult it's making basically everything. Also my internet still sucks, but that's bc I have Mediacom and they always suck.
I don't know why tf my ancient Macbook stopped working, but it has to do with the fact that it thinks the hard drive's storage is completely full, but it isn't, and I can't determine what/where these mysterious 250GB of stuff is since all my stuff is either in the cloud or an external hard drive.
I do not have a functional computer right now, which is a problem, because one of my jobs involves teaching online. I'm currently typing this on a borrowed PC that won't charge, but can sort of work when plugged in, but if the power cord is bumped, it dies.
Yep. It's actually difficult to function as I become increasingly aware of this fact.