Search Results: feeling
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12 Jun 2020: Four Ways to Eat Black Locust Blossoms (and One Way Not to Bother)
Food: Amaryllidaceae, black locust, Brassicaceae, chives, edible flowers, Fabaceae, flowers, recipes, salad, soup · no comments... Oh, and the chive blossoms - the chives have been feeling super sexy lately and putting out tons of flowers. And a few dame's ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... a taste of what's inside: Owning privilege is not about feeling ashamed, it is about acknowledging the benefits that one receives ...
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12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... is that the apartment features a horribly cold and unfeeling generic-colored wall-to-wall carpet, and in order to protect the ...
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29 Apr 2020: Confessions of a Grad School
DropoutGraduate
Aimless: · 25 comments... have been useful things to cling to when my career is feeling stormy: I'll work on skills that can be transferred to a job as... a ...
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4 Feb 2020: Why I Don’t Use the BPR3 Icon
Meta: · 14 comments... as a member of the tribe. Which might be why I'm not feeling the proper amount of bloodlust at the oncoming smackdown of a Discovery ...
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18 Dec 2020: Grading Codes I Want to Give
Teaching: funny, grading, students say the darndest things · 1 comment... scrawl on your face. Sucker. F: No one cares about your feelings. I mean, okay, yes, it does give me the warm fuzzies to hear that this ...
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1 Nov 2020: We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Gosh Darn It, We’re the November Scientiae!
Links, Politics, Science: blog carnivals, feminism, gender, impostor syndrome, scientiae, sexism, zombies · 15 comments... series, where she explains her persistent and unjustified feelings of inadequacy to her relentlessly self-confident labmate: So, I ... what they say. However, I can never entirely push away the feeling that secretly everyone else thinks, but is too nice to say, that I'm ...
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28 Sep 2020: Friday iTunes iChing: UC TA Strike
Politics: academia, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, labor unions · no comments... by the dreams of our own But nobody's happy while feeling alone And knowing how hard it hurts when we fall We lean another ...
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4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong
Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 comments... Something mournful, or poignant Now usually when I am feeling in-your-face and partisan, I like to make at least a token nod at "hey ...
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13 Jun 2020: Leaking From the Pipeline (Again)
Personal, Politics, Science: academia, grad school, life as a leak, Phi Delta Qoppa · 14 comments... of my department. Not in public, thanks. But I've been feeling some pressure to come up with a good story about my experience as a ... (sincere ones - yes, yes, that's exactly it!) about feeling passionate about other career options, mainly science writing and ...
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18 Apr 2020: Lollinks
Links, Personal, Whimsy: cat macros, psychology, test anxiety · 4 comments... devote all of our many neural connections to fostering bad feelings. This was never an issue for me as a kid, but I totally identified ...
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24 Mar 2020: Rape: Still Judged by Your Relationship to the Rapist
Politics: bravery, rape · 7 comments... if I'm ever feeling dry in Noe Valley, I know where I'm going - a place where nobody knows ...
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13 Mar 2020: Science as Culture, and Cultural Depictions Thereof
Politics, Science: science in pop culture, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · 9 comments... "heartbreak", "butterflies in the stomach", etc. - to our feelings, which actually have a scientific explanation At last, someone ...
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3 Mar 2020: Earthquake Folksonomy
Science, Teaching: earthquakes, lay science · 14 comments... work in the most technical language possible when I'm not feeling chatty; usually it makes people stop asking questions.) People ...
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12 Oct 2020: When You Join the Teapot Tempest, You Know Your Bloggy Groove Is Returning
Meta, Politics: blogular wanking, feminism, role models · 7 comments... to me I am certainly not in a position to honor my models' feelings on the matter. Denying that one is a potential role model does about ...
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27 Jul 2020: Coming Down from the Link Rush
Links, Meta: anti-racism, blog carnivals, doing science, erase racism, NASA, panta rei, race in science, racism · 1 comment... tell me whether/where I'm moving offices: In science, feeling confused is essential to progress. An unwillingness to feel lost, in ...
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7 Jun 2020: A Brief Discussion of Other People’s Politics
Politics: climate change, plumbers, rhetorical tactics · 5 comments... even half a shit. These conversations always leave me feeling dispirited. I hate the way they reinforce the dominant narrative of ...
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7 Apr 2020: Insomnia, Slightly Beer-Induced
Links: Friday random ten, search requests · 9 comments... folks what they *could* be doing to alleviate that sick feeling? Are they sharing their knowledge on how to organize a press ...
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31 Jan 2020: Procrastinating Things
Links, Politics: blog carnivals, denmark, offensive humor, patriarchy, psychology, racism, relationships · 3 comments... in my brain, and for the past month I've had the liminal feeling of my subconscious being ready to come up with something clever. But, ...
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30 Dec 2020: Year-End Bloggy Wrap-Up
Meta: clip show · no commentsSo I actually have multiple posts in the draft queue that will outshine this year's entire output combined with their dazzlingly pure incomprehensibility pretentiousness wit and insight. But I'm just on the edge of sick, my head feels like one of those flu ...
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22 Dec 2020: All I Haven’t Said
Links, Personal, Politics, Teaching: ambition, Caltech, death penalty, liberty, white studies · 3 comments... looking a gift horse in the mouth. I had four years of feeling stupid at Tech and I don't intend to go through that ever again. I am ...
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8 Dec 2020: AGU Four
Links, Personal, Politics: american geophysical union, feminism, peer review, pharmacists, socks · 3 comments... from column A, a little from column B, and came away feeling inspired to blog. Said inspiration vanished around 4:00; there's a ...
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16 Nov 2020: On Co-ops and Community
Human Fuzzies, Politics: co-ops, consensus, intentional community · 4 comments... deal of flexibility to account for community judgments ("feelings") about individual circumstance, but grants no official weight ...
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9 Sep 2020: Anecdotes
Personal, Politics: academia, co-op living, feminism, rhetorical tactics, sexism · 4 comments... he came up to me later to talk about it! Awww. Feeling like even my most hairy-legged concerns are taken seriously is a high ...
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18 May 2020: Defining Feminism: Once More, with Feeling
Politics: feminism, feminisms, marriage, peer pressure · 7 commentsI was about to post this over at Matthew Yglesias, but got distracted (silly work, don't they know I'm leaving so soon that I no longer care?). By the time I returned, the discussion had rambled around so much that my sparkling brilliance would've been sad ...
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4 Apr 2020: Links to Daylight’s Rescue
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: concert bands, Holst, labor unions, Taco Bell, workers rights · 2 comments... of gradually to the dawn; cha-CHING! As a result, I'm feeling all linky today. Music! The Air Force Wind Ensembles have free mp3s, ...
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30 Mar 2020: A Personal Ontology of Bagels
Whimsy: quizzes · 1 commentI promised I'd bring bagels: ...
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14 Mar 2020: Middle Klass
Personal, Politics: academia, classism, money · 14 comments... really object too much because you need that job. The feeling that goes along with that is neither hopeful nor positive. The ... Feminists should drop everything to cater to my hurt feelings, because my alligience is more important than their anger. An ... make the privileged feel guilty. And I have conflicted feelings about both those things. It's important to legitimize others' anger, ...
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5 Mar 2020: Science Friday on Saturday
Science: funny, hydrothermal vents, oceanography, science journalism · 9 comments... of Washington. Me: Squeeee! [So I left the visit feeling like regardless of my nominal advisor, I could easily end up as the ...
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24 Jan 2020: We’re All Molluscan Pornographers Here
Links, Science: blogular wanking, molluscs · no comments... PZ has accomplished in his professional career; I have a feeling I might ...
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10 Jan 2020: The Sheep Are Still Scared
Politics: gender, sexism · 2 comments... a component of masculinity, while critical thoughts and feelings of ambivalence about sex are obstacles to the full experience of ...
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6 Dec 2020: An N Things Post: N=2, Politics
Links, Politics: gender, US party politics, USDA · no comments... but I'm not giving in to the urge to marginalize feelings of righteous anger in favor of fitting this post into the conventional ...
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11 Oct 2020: Evolutionary Psychology Goes to the Dentist
Personal, Whimsy: dissociation, evolutionary psychology, medicine · no comments... patient too). But I also find it eerily reminiscent of the feelings of disconnection described by varied victims of varied tragedies, from ...
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28 Sep 2020: Movies Lately
Human Fuzzies: media politics, movie reviews · 1 comment... The proposed solution was to badger the FCC, which left me feeling bleak and empty - I generally favor the ruthless subjugation of ...
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31 Aug 2020: Citizens Don’t Let Citizens Watch the RNC
Politics: civic duties, political tactics · 6 comments... and Harrison are both feeling somehow obliged to pay attention to the Republican National Convention, ...
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30 Aug 2020: Note to People on Political Volunteer Phone Lists
Politics: i hate everything, impeach Bush, US party politics · no comments... like the Democratic Party any more than you do, though her feelings may or may not be accurately characterized as "disappointment". The ...
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26 Aug 2020: Broken Pipes and the Electoral College
Politics: · 4 comments... voting blocs. So with all that, I have mixed feelings about the Electoral College. I find something disturbing about the ...
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12 Jul 2020: Yay Class Warfare!
Politics: classism, health care, John Edwards, labor unions, trade, workers rights · no comments... the air for like a week, and already I'm sick and tired of feeling like a moderate all the time. If we'd only go back to talking about ...
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16 Jun 2020: Up Shit Canyon Without a Creek
Politics: · 2 comments... the SoCal water supply for nearly a year now, I've been feeling like I should have a response, and what follows are some thoughts in ... sustainable water policy will hurt, I've got a very strong feeling that the place of its hurting will be in the pocketbook. People and ...
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24 May 2020: Someone’s An Excuse
Meta: · 1 comment... can curb my herbaceous compulsions for a while) so I'm not feeling particularly funny or thoughtful. So! On with the peanut gallery. The ...
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4 May 2020: Garden Post
Personal: car repair, cars, container gardening, gardening, heirloom tomatoes, tomatoes · no comments... where the hipster comes in! I have a nagging feeling that in an alternate universe where the hip, trendsetting intellectual ...
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28 Apr 2020: Coolant Pixies
Personal: · 5 comments... important and basic fact: I love shitty cars. I love the feeling of continually overcoming adversity while driving, the selfish glow ...
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11 Apr 2020: Aww Like Plant Kittens
Meta: blogtinkery · 3 comments... it here if you've got a style-cookie set) and I'm still feeling kinda nerdy, so I might try some more hacks tonight. Maybe everything ...
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27 Oct 2020: Numbered List: I Am Smoke
Personal: adventures, fascist police states, fire, in the desert · 3 comments... their cell phone, called a truck, and waved goodbye feeling generally pleased with those parts of humanity that don't charge $300 ...
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23 Oct 2020: Quicksilver: a partial review
Human Fuzzies: book reviews · 3 comments... can handle before the main character (whose thoughts and feelings are told at a slowly-increasing remove) is completely squished, ...
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25 Aug 2020: Someone’s Been Shitting in My Toilet!
Personal: · 3 comments... much cleaner than I am in all respects. I have been feeling guilty lately, because my crumbs left on the kitchen counter and my ...
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2 Aug 2020: Housing Markets
Personal, Politics: apartment hunting, capitalism sucks, hey lazyweb, Los Angeles · 3 comments... it's not important who appears to pay. But I've got a bad feeling about this model; not only is it annoying for prospective renters, who ...
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24 Jun 2020: Am I an Ex-Academic?
Personal: · 3 comments... basis. Which is nonsense; scientists have feelings too, and lots of them are feelings of inadequacy. I'm not alone in my bitter rants. So... what are the ...
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21 Jan 2020: Neologistical Challenge
Whimsy: · 3 comments... should be a word for the stubborn, slightly unbalanced feeling one gets when one is standing in one's left shoe, picking up dirty ...
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10 Jan 2020: Stick Up Your Etiquette
Personal: · 1 comment... drives me absolutely bonkers. I start off feeling boorish and uncultured, then I realize why, take a hearty dislike to ...
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10 Dec 2020: Dilemma
Personal, Politics: · 6 comments... have just eaten too much birthday cake, and his strong feelings about welfare reform and the Great Society got the better of him. And ...
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19 Sep 2020: Incredible Finds
Personal: · no comments... a bag of clothes (not enough to really earn that sudden feeling of lightness, but hey) and purchase necessary kitchen items. Our ...
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14 Aug 2020: Cold Turkey
Personal: · 2 comments... before they let you email a real person. I have a sinking feeling that I might end up paying for my broadband after all - or else finding ...
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25 Jul 2020: Almost Obligatory Meta-Introspection on the Occasion of my Blog’s Birthday
Meta: · 3 comments... one ever stop needing external validation? So I've been feeling more honest, more straightforward, less willing to put forth the effort ...
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5 Jun 2020: Like A Virgin
Meta: blogular wanking, fan mail, guest posts · 3 comments... virginity (don't you feel voyeuristic, now?), I'm still feeling around it the dark. The idea is to be more interesting than a series of ...
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22 May 2020: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Personal: · 4 comments... down a freeway, music pulsing just above the road noise, feeling reckless and unlimited, like I could be in Tijuana tomorrow morning ... under the el in Chicago, as the case often was. It's a feeling I associate with youth, or rather, young adulthood - a visceral sense ...
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20 May 2020: Someone’s At It Again
Meta: · 3 comments... this paper. i would much rather do something else. but i'm feeling uncreative. You got it; it's been a while since I've cleaned out my ...
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2 May 2020: awooga!
Aimless: · 2 comments... know that feeling when you blow your nose and your eardrums pop out and they take all ...
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22 Apr 2020: Things We Deep Fried This Evening
Human Fuzzies: · 6 comments... than one would ever suspect. The pear was my idea, so I'm feeling just a touch smug, and also clogged with greasy goodness of ...
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17 Apr 2020: surface learning
Teaching: · 8 comments... exhausted all other options. Then I feel guilty about feeling guilty and all of a sudden I'm on a therapist's couch talking about my ...
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30 Mar 2020: Crying Baby Airlines
Personal: · 4 comments... posting them into the archives. Hey, and since I've been feeling altogether too much like 14 years old lately, was my school district ...
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24 Mar 2020: Domestic Manners of the Americans
Human Fuzzies: · 1 comment... this was owing to their being written with strong party feeling: but I - who am in the secret - know that such was not the case. The ...
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19 Mar 2020: Free Theorems Yum Yum
Personal: · 2 comments... okay to feel sad, or apathetic, or anxious, that these feelings don't have to come from some obvious external event to be valid, and that having or acting on such feelings doesn't make me a bad person or a bad student - and I realized I don't ...
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6 Mar 2020: Ratings: Today’s California Ballot Measures
Politics: California ballot propositions, Green party · 1 comment... to spend other people's money, engendering that warm fuzzy feeling only hard liquor can beat. It's too bad they had to ruin this one with ...
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12 Feb 2020: Haul, boys, Haul!
Politics: · 1 comment... temporarily saved my willpower - you see, whenever I start feeling underacheivish, I immediately chastize myself for my lack of ... so you don't have to worry. I hadn't expected such a feeling of relief. Is feminist hyper-awareness creating a self-fulfilling ...
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26 Jan 2020: People At My School
Teaching: learning, mathematics, seismology · no comments... Today, though, I think I finally managed, and came out feeling all enthused and energized and other nice e-words because of it. Of ...
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21 Nov 2020: joining my drunk…
Politics: · no comments... remarks about the cowboy in Washington, I have to say, I'm feeling a touch smug here. At least now I'm not the only one wandering around feeling responsible for alien viewpoints. The BBC also has a few things to ...
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: I went to the butcher
Food, Personal: cooking, Danish, thanksgiving, turkey · no comments... I assumed he was asking if I wanted the giblets removed. Feeling agreeable, I said yes, and then he took my poor innocent turkey off ...
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17 Nov 2020: jeg var…
Personal: diary, words · no comments... serious literary influences. Now all of a sudden I'm feeling nostalgic and starving for eloquence, so I'm going to plumb the depths ...
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16 Nov 2020: gobble gobble
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cooking, thanksgiving · no comments... cook, and can say without snarkiness that I get warm fuzzy feelings just thinking about an entire day in the kitchen with a turkey, some ...
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11 Nov 2020: s-tog til hundige
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... and Wolfstone recalls that spirited open-road feeling from the summer after I got out of high school, when I'd grab my pickup ...
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3 Nov 2020: uhh. zog.
Personal: · no comments... and scandalously clever subtext. I'm sober now, but that feeling of "of course everyone else will understand the disjointed inside jokes ...
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2 Nov 2020: false hopes
Meta, Personal: minions · no comments... and I do like my minions. On the other hand, I am feeling less and less compelled to think up clever punchlines for every single ...
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1 Nov 2020: mommy, don’t make me go home!
Personal: · no comments... until roundabout my third term at Tech, and warm fuzzy feelings about some people here notwithstanding I doubt I'll feel socialwise ...
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29 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee – part II
Human Fuzzies: liberal guilt, tourism · no comments... ads on Danish television. And this brings on nebulous feelings of guilt. To be painfully honest with myself, I think this guilt ... language down our throats, but if I'm going to start feeling guilty for all the failures of the American public education system ...
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12 Oct 2020: Back in Copenhagen
Human Fuzzies: sandwiches, Scandinavia, smørrebrød · no comments... back in Copenhagen, for a little while anyway, and I'm feeling just a smidgen of post-vacation letdown. There was a good feeling of camaraderie on that little oceanographic research island. Towards ...
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10 Oct 2020: Slippery When Wet
Personal: · no comments... any of them. Instead, I'm going to write about the odd feeling of protective older-sister-ness that happens when a friend writes you ...
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20 Sep 2020: I walked home
Personal: · no comments... lived upon it like a loose grain of sand. It was the feeling you get when you have smiled at a girl, and spoken a few words of ...
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2 Sep 2020: redesign
Meta, Personal: blogtinkery, introspection · no comments... no matter how much fun I had just had, I always wound up feeling isolated and even a bit sepulcheral passing through all the concrete ...
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14 Aug 2020: rødgrød med fløde
Human Fuzzies: Danish, pronunciation · 1 comment... do it with "med" - cross out the d, and if you're really feeling adventurous you can probably get rid of most of the e as well. Fløde ...
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14 Jul 2020: argyle sock envy
Links, Personal: · no comments... promo buttons, static. I always like those, it's the same feeling I get looking at a crazy quilt of squares. Comfortable. Anyway, I've ...
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: my cat is a huge grouch
Personal: · no comments... old enough that she can start to relax. I'm sure she's feeling approximately the same thing I do when I fly back to California... but ...
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10 Jul 2020: mmm, fake people
Aimless, Personal: · no comments... Some of the newness has finally worn away, leaving me feeling appropriately empty after I spend an hour watching fake people watch ...