who!

i think it’s a little funny that this is maybe one of the few, possibly the only good thing that came out of DC being gentrified for decades

Donald glover pizza box community scene

The year is 2025. This is just how people enter rooms now

this is such a better choice than lake trout, which is not my favorite local meal but is still totally good protein to waste on a fascist troops

three preteens ragging on a National Guardsman as one of them stops in a corner store to grab a snack

when I was a kid ads for the National Guard were like "you can help your neighbors during a flood" and I hope they're updating them to footage of a dude wearing tactical gear small enough that it looks like a bib getting called names by a guy with a bewildering Baltimore accent

Today is so rude, how am I being put in a position where I, a Baltimorean, must defend the dignity of DC

my guess is that they just missed the emails

the curious thing about this is that i think the national guard being deployed are locals to the region, which means to me that you just now have more hot and irritated locals who are patrolling the spaces they used to go to for school field trips

no! no! I had shingles a year ago and it sucks! hopefully the symptoms going away quick now that you have a solid dx and an rx

Also I know words and laws don’t mean things anymore but I’m wondering what you would call the sack of cottage cheese in orange concealer ignoring home rule in DC if it ain’t annexation?

High of 86? 90% humidity? Walking about the lily white Washington Mall with 30 pounds of equipment? Dying of heat stroke to own the libs.

it’s still mild which is great! T and I are trading off watching our tiniest and cutest covid vector though so it’s not the most chill sitting time

covid symptom tracking for the curious: i’m on day 2 and i have congestion and an elevated heart rate (in the 90s) even when just sitting. just going to have to be disciplined about not returning to climbing asap 🫠

art! this is art

💗

i’m bouncing through despair, counting my remaining blessings, and chuckling at the absurdity of it all

living w a mystery where Kit is asymptomatic and positive while Cub has a runny nose and keeps testing negative. T sneezed three times today and tested negative yesteday

it’s a mild case but in combination w everything else going on, it’s starting to make me and T feel like we’re haunted by something

it was v naive of me to assume that this plot point in the Yiddish Policeman’s Union was fictional and far-fetched

Want to see billboards in every major city that just say

'Power Bill Too High? Thank "Generative AI"' and then a link to a website all about "AI" and data center energy and water use

i feel more tired today but it could just be not sleeping well due to the knowledge of having COVID

ty and i have no idea when i’m going to rest. I have her while T has Cub bc we’re the two that tested positive while the two of them are negative (as far as we know) 🫠

so Kit tested positive too. she has no symptoms and her test was as bright as mine. either i gave it to her from the event or the Cutest Vector strikes again, albeit this time from a v small in-home daycare

at least i got see and spend some time with loved ones? 😬

yeah tbh that’s how i feel too. i hadn’t seen some of my cousins for over a year

awww man i was talking to T and we just remembered that we were unmasked at the lunch at my aunt’s memorial service, and then hung out w my cousins afterwards, also unmasked. 🫠 i don’t regret spending that w them but it blows if that’s where we were exposed

oh!! i know of this from GBBO but didn’t know about that they believe it’s american!

what is the pie

the funny/terrible thing about this is that i also do the “take lots of histamines/ use the one mouthwash” and i’m still positive. on the flipside, maybe those things are the reason why i feel mostly ok today

i had some friends over today and should have tested before they came over but i also assumed it was weather and/or possibly forgetting to take my daily zyrtec (i take one bc of my cat allergies)

i feel bad about the prospect of even spending 3-4 days of active rest bc i feel fine rn! just irritated sinuses. hopefully this is the worst of it and i’m just feeling guilty about resting