Alyssa Barringer

I do think it’s helpful to think of the CAT-Q as a measure of how much energy I expend attempting to mask, not how effective my masking is

I do think it’s helpful to think of the CAT-Q as a measure of how much energy I expend attempting to mask, not how effective my masking is

I am confident in my social masking ability*

*terms and conditions may apply, offer void where unavailable, results not guaranteed

One repaired telephone lines for Southwestern Bell, and later a driver of cars between dealerships.

The other was a journalist, Methodist pastor, and journalism professor (but not all at once).

How’d the nonchalance go?

!?!!!

I’m glad the day was good!

yeah, I'm about that FIRE lifestyle – my joints often Fail Independently and cause me to Retire from physical activity Early

It's probably fine that the executive branch of our government is Oops! All Wormtongues

“Farewell, John Piper”

- surely someone, right?

how it’s been

So, I’ve been reading this guy named Origen and let me introduce you to this cool allegorical reading of Joshua I just discovered.

Feel as though tonight some of us had as near a direct experience of "two hours" itself as it's possible to have

Overdue

I might be overdo for a viewing of Lonesome Dove

I have been thinking of this story for days

I need people who comment on tv about law to enunciate that second t in "statutes" and be consistent. my psyche cannot otherwise deal with what my imagination does with all the rogue statues doin stuff

Try this One Weird Trick* to cut through medical system bureaucracy and get that time-sensitive appointment you need!

*weeping while pacing the lobby until it disturbs the admin enough to call for a nurse who knows where the Secret Appointment Availability is hidden

This is a relief to me! I am glad it is in safe keeping

I want to say I remember a lot of marginalia about the status of the cat from the opening pages

I should go to sleep, but instead I’m thinking about a secondhand copy of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that @martynwendell.bsky.social used to own, annotated by someone who was trying to impose the structure of an entirely different genre of writing upon Annie Dillard.

The Muppets and Margarita

!!!!

This is embarrassing. Sometimes I think I cannot be more ashamed of the denomination, and then! Surprise!

tfw there is infinite hope but not for us

I used to think it was kind of silly when you were reading or watching some sort of sci fi thing and they’d be like this is the TOWER OF BABEL PROJECT, named for the Tower of Babel in the Bible, which had an outcome we personally don’t recall but we imagine was pretty cool. However it turns out that this how a non-zero number of tech companies actually do name themselves.

January 20, 2017 to January 20, 2021 was basically one long, sustained panic attack

This is also how I remember it

WHAT a response from Anne there! That is a big jump!

Jon and Maddie are somehow reading out my medical history on a podcast