Susan Lin

A gray cat with a gray ball on her head lays on a light gray rug in front of a blue armchair

A gray cat carrying a gray ball in her mouth, in front of a bookshelf with colorful boxes. She is walking towards the camera

Another darker gray cat with a gray ball on her head. She is resting with her eyes looking down, on green fabric

This is now a cats-posing-with-balls-of-their-own-fur account

Tell. Me. About. Your. Nail. Polish.

Slide out of their chairs when you teach them glides?

They side eye you when you teach laterals?

Boy tho can you think of a better time in our (yours and mine) memory to read some Vonnegut

A gray cat sitting on a wooden stepstool. Face shows an alert gaze just to the left of the camera. Cuteness is subjective but let it be known that this cat is very cute

My cat is cute

This was so rude. I’m still upset.

It’s beautiful

Open immediately -- postdoc, speech motor control and speech motor neuroscience w/ C. Niziolek + B. Parrell, U. Wisconsin Madison blab.wisc.edu/join-the-lab/ [see Postdoctoral researchers tab]

Alas they so often are

R (5) while listening to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: If the robots are evil, why did they make them?

Ah, yes, that.

BEANS!

A metal sheet tray with 4 distinct piles of dried beans, yellow eye top left, cranberry beans top right, berlotti bottom right, unknown bottom left

Let the bean counting commence

Beans 😮

I’m so happy

R (5): did you know some warehouses are spooky?
Me: oh you mean like around Halloween? Yeah some of them become haunted houses
R (5): yes but also when it’s a full moon they can turn into monsters too
Me: oh a WERE-house

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Truly the Yaatt is the mascot of our times.

Test run for “making potions” with the kid (5) and his friend (5) who now thinks I’m a witch. I’m ok with this

Laughing so hard at bopomofo because while I’m familiar with the concept, as a heritage Mandarin speaker it never occurred to me how it might be spelled in English

Bopo, mofo!

(^ This is an English θ-stopping and and voicing joke)

Dad’s what makes it healthy

🐅

Disappointed to learn this isn’t about Nirvana

What I love most about this is the implied existence of a standard “crocheted baguette”

The best part of making jam from your own fruit is being able to reduce the amount of su—

Just kidding, it’s seeing all the bugs you failed to remove float up and saying loudly to no one “oh no I guess I have to keep this batch to myself, what a shame”

A stainless steel pan full of blueberries and sugar, on a stovetop

Let’s jam

A butterbutt is a word for a yellow-rumped warbler. You may hear the word "butterbutt" and chuckle. And then after a while, you're using it completely seriously and earnestly. —Rosemary Mosco

Grab your binoculars! Author and illustrator Rosemary Mosco guides us into the world of birding: buff.ly/WoQFCLC

Beans!

Seems fair, so much blood, too many holes

I like big ~~baaaaaaa~~ (and I cannot lie)