your friend dusti

I just snorted because YES, so true.

being a poet is so embarrassing 🥹

oh no — they’re both worse now 😬 But they’re different!

Poem revision is going HARD. One is getting more intense and another is probably getting worse, but I’m doing my job pretty well at this moment.

emma NO 😭

I haven’t watched a not-made-for Prime movie on Prime in a while. But I just started BURN AFTER READING and it acted like I’d put a DVD in, with the copyright warning and stuff. Is that new, or do I just have a bad memory about this particular thing?

Dominator by clipping. on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 2:31

Times like this — when my #1 favorite techno song is sampled by one of my fave bands and integrated so deeply into a song — I wish my ex wife & I were friends. music.apple.com/us/album/dom...

The real reason I’d wanted to go to UW-Madison’s MFA was so I could live in the only W state I’ve never lived in.

the plaid and stripes together on you are 👩‍🍳💋

Lots of folks hurting because of the world and all these things. If you can help, here’s one way to do so.

refusing to go to yoga at the place that calls it “love & kindness meditation” instead of “loving kindness meditation” is petty and I also don’t care that it’s petty.

I’d intended to use my Souper Cubes for these, but they’re all in use. The muffin tin, greased with a little Crisco in each well, was perfect for the job. Cottage cheese keeps the eggs creamy. I’ll freeze then reheat in the air fryer every morning.

My IBS doesn’t let me have garlic, onion, green bell peppers, pulses & legumes (except peanuts for some reason) without severe abdominal pain, so I used oil & seasoning from FODY in Canada (the few they have without avocado oil, which will kill me). Very pleased.

a muffin tin full of eggs baked with cheese and herbs

These egg bites — eggs whisked with cottage cheese, cheddar, steakhouse seasoning, poured into greased muffin tins over diced orange & yellow peppers and bacon sautéed in shallot-infused olive oil, topped w/ parsley — turned out beautifully.

this is in my top twenty, hands down. I quote it frequently (and most people have no idea what I’m talking about 😭).

When I was not disabled and had three toddlers, I always parked next to the cart corral! It was SO much easier to unload them into the car and out the cart away without walking away! But challenges abound in those situations!

And, to be fair, there are certainly lots of people who are just jerks and don’t consider the impact of a cart rolling off or blocking a parking spot or something. I try to assume the best in people, but sometimes a person is just inconsiderate.

the grocery cart is the most commonly-used mobility aid, especially among people who don’t yet realize they would benefit from another form of mobility aid. But it would be helpful if stores would put cart corrals nearer to accessible parking areas instead of in the middle of the parking lot.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

it made all the difference!

❤️‍🔥

(I started this morning with a strong pumpkin spice latte with lots of extra pecan crunches — I explained to the barista that they were vital to today’s mental health and she did me right!)

That isn’t making flashcards and studying for Monday’s comparative mythology exam or beginning research on my world lit paper, but it ain’t nothing.

Looking at yesterday, it wasn’t really unproductive— I just did different stuff than I really needed to 😅 I did mount my big whiteboard (YAY FEMINISM) and start my ready for workshop / submitted to workshop / in revision Post-It wall!

Trying to avoid yesterday’s trappings by actually getting out of bed when I woke up. Though to be fair, yesterday my cat woke me VERY EARLY and I’d have had a bad day instead of just an unproductive one had I gotten out of bed.

come on, be a hater

Watching THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR on Netflix and it unfolds like a horror film. And my ACAB heart is like, why is this bitch talking to the cops without a lawyer? And the part of me that is both a parent and a child wants immediate justice.

Lots of students come in for re-writes because lots try to use ChatGPT, and they write papers that aren’t great but are okay enough to pass, but they’ve done *twice the work* and can only get a C AT BEST on the paper.

I guess? No idea what the thought process is like. But we are one of the departments fighting against AI usage and are all on the same team and are all required to use the same tools.

One of my colleagues received a paper that was determined to be 47% AI. Her policy for these intro classes is to offer one no-questions-asked re-write, under supervision in the writing center. The student instead dropped the class. No one can graduate w/o ENGL 101 🙄