Genevieve Arlie

Here I am, 41 years old and living at home, listening from my childhood bedroom to my 73-year-old mom and her friend in the living room discuss the mechanics and diction (sic!) of romantasy sex scenes, and I'm happy for them but really wish I weren't here right now.

Submitted my dissertation copyright today! Official. 🤓

"I am not braggadocios": oxymoron or?

discovered I'm still young 🦋

Faced with rising temps, Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees Climate change is driving more dangerous summer heat across the U.S. Las Vegas, which reached 120 degrees last summer, is planting thousands of trees to help cool its hottest neighborhoods.

Climate change is driving up peak summer temperatures across the country. Las Vegas broke temperature records last summer. Now, the region is fighting the heat with a simple solution: more trees. via @knpr.org

second time in five days I'm sitting in my car rocking out to Stairway, overplayed and yet always convincing 🧑‍🎤🎶

Watercolour painting of six different types of bread buns shaped like bunnies on a plain white background

Bun buns 🐇🥖

relistening to Steve Jobs' Stanford '05 commencement speech, consistently ranked as one of the all-time greatest and one I was miraculously present for the first time, and his nasal tenor floats back to me over the score of years gone more than his exact words, although those ring for me too.

got told today my problem seems to be I'm a writer's writer. welp. lowest praise ever.

hadn't gotten honked at in so long, I was first startled then annoyed then bemused. old gal's still got it. and a magenta Cadillac DeVille rolled by.

Are you taking adult volunteers? 🐈

Support like this is why we will eventually win.

good omen: the night I'm due (in the next two hours) to submit my dissertation to my committee, the goddesses bless me with a @michaelstipe.bsky.social sighting in the produce aisle. 🤩

What peaches and what penumbras!

jamming to Jimmy Eat World's BLEED AMERICAN because well that's what the nation is doing right now but also I'm trying to channel the fevered energy of late-night writing sessions in the sedate weekend afternoon #amwriting

sometimes while dissertating I look up a book in the university multi-search just for bibliographic details and see it's already checked out and not due back for months and feel a stab of deprivation—"book hog!"—until I realize I'm the borrower 📚🐽 and have already had it for months

a man with a beard wearing a yellow jacket and black shirt Alt: Nick Jonas, a white guy and former boy bander with dark cropped hair and beard scruff wearing a yellow jacket and black shirt, gives a chef's kiss.

Minding my own damn business writing the diss while listening to the soundtrack to _The English Patient_, and then Ella Fitzgerald comes on singing "Cheek to Cheek" and I have to drop everything to listen because she's <chef's kiss>.

dissertating w/all haste—🖋️

he is passing everyone handwritten notes telling them he has taken a lover and won't betray him for anyone else, or he'd be interested.

To be clear, only the dream of the incomplete for Dr. Rosenbaum is recurring. And Eliot was a Victorianist, not a modernist. And Brad's not interested. #phdanxiety

Had my recurring dream in which I owe this one lovely modernism professor a paper on George Eliot's _The Mill on the Floss_ to override an incomplete, and then to avoid my family on a visit to the Getty, I end up at a murder mystery swingers party hosted by Brad Pitt at his apartment where (1/2)

🚨BREAKING: 9th Circuit DENIES government's motion to pause federal court order requiring the rehiring of probationary civil servants who were terminated. A big win for democracy and a another defeat for Trump.

Visit www.democracydocket.com for full coverage of this and all breaking democracy news.

For the record, this should embolden you to want to vote in every single election not just every two years or every four years. The way we change the party to what we want is by voting the people we want in.

There are elections on Tuesday in certain parts of FL, CA, GA, MA, NY, SC, WY
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Want to know why, in part, the the world has descended into nihilism?

"Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism" by Bradley A. Gorski, part of the NIU in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies series from Cornell University Press.

Available on Amazon—and Hoopla! 🎈

The brilliant and charming @bgorski.bsky.social hits the presses today! As we resist the authoritarian turn of our late-capitalist moment, discover why Russian literature embraced the capitalist marketplace in the post-Soviet vacuum. 📚📈📉

Saw an older woman on the street. maybe early 70s, wearing a wide black silk tie, houndstooth trousers and shiny silver stiletto boots.

I said "Madame you look amazing"

She said "I like to think I'm a little in the space of David Bowie"

Tried to off myself with musical nostalgia by playing Def Leppard hits from the eighties all day. They wrote "Photograph" to the image of Marilyn Monroe. Perfect song y/n? 📸 ☠️ Revive me.

Third chick has hatched if you would like a serotonin boost in these dystopian times! Jackie & Shadow have not had viable eggs since 2022. One chick for every year of waiting! 🐣🐣🐣

always pleased when diverse casting in a movie adaptation is original to the source material; today, Magnus Bane, Asian, in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bone. 💫

my big class outperformed my little class on our first essay, a narrative travelogue, and I think it's because the bigs traded so many ideas and built each other up and the littles were too timid to speak much in such an empty room. makes me feel better about big classes! more discourse ftw. 🦜💬

Grading my composition students' travelogues by hand as a treat to myself and them, and the stories are uproarious and poignant and soul searching, full of revelation and self-discovery.🎫🚆✈️🚗 🗺️🌎🌍🌏

Okay so the justice system is going to have to bail us out of this one, yes, with the executive and legislative branches gone Musk? ⚖️