Clare Griffin

That holiday feeling when you realize you don’t need to use powerpoint for at least 3 weeks

Cat outraged that I am spending the evening working rather than hugging her and honestly so am I

Bloomington city council plowing the roads like a resentful teenager cleaning their room

Once again getting emails intended for my academic doppelgänger, a specialist in prostate cancer

*obviously I am using the term documentary in the loosest possible way

We can know all about this guy who thought someone’s genetics determined their entire value to society by examining his genetics you say? Fascinating

Apparently UK’s Channel 4 recently broadcast a documentary* on how we can tell all about Hitler from his DNA and irony thy name is television

I may be taking the wrong lessons from this novel

Rereading Steppenwolf so I can daydream about being an isolated weirdo in an attic

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Americans using leaf blowers to spend 15 minutes moving leaves that would have taken 5 minutes with a broom

At least some of the glee over Kim Kardashian not passing the bar exam is because she doesn’t seem like the kind of person who could be a lawyer, which is the experience of any number of women in any number of professions

How do I feel like getting sick next year? It’s so hard to decide

Relaxing Sunday morning with a 30 page briefing document on healthcare enrollment

The Moscow Times — Undesirable Collection Let's celebrate the first anniversary of The Moscow Times being declared “undesirable” in Russia!

Top notch work from @themoscowtimes.com - glasses engraved with a quote from the official judgement banning them in Russia

moscowtimes.world

Lol

Also to check out the new faculty lounge! On a different continent

I am now getting emails about the internal vacancies I could apply for at a job I don’t have any more in a country I am no longer living in

My former employers of over three years ago, Nazarbayev University, have outdone themselves this time and added my IU address to their faculty email list

What a movie /fin

“Forget it, Holmwood, it’s Draculatown”

The closer we are to becoming a vampire, the more unkempt our hair becomes, that is the lesson here

*dry

Post-Dracula Keanu looks like he didn’t rub in his dray shampoo properly

And also nothing he suggests actually seems to work? He is not great at this

Van Helsing is a terrible communicator

Anthony Hopkins chewing all the scenery Gary Oldman left standing