Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

You’ll find something! This series of posts was not about 1 person this is a common thing! I have been a poll worker for 3 years and while there is 1 dude who refuses to make eye contact with any of us, nobody has been angry in the 6 times I’ve done it.

Happy to hear it!

Of course, I’m not saying don’t hug your dog, just don’t delude yourself into thinking that hugging your dog is sufficient at a time like this, you know?

*helping to disrupt the fascism, you know what I mean.

Or they will say "thank you for this point, I hugged my dog extra tight today, i did something" and I'm like... no, hugging your dog is not... is not helping the fascism, what the hell man.

I'll re-read what I posted and I'll be like "hang on where did they get THAT from" and I never really understand where it comes from. People wanting things to mean something else I guess. Interpretive posting.

Sometimes I post stuff about These Times, and people will reply with some version of "Thank you for granting me permission to do nothing" and I- seriously you guys- am never ever advocating for you doing nothing. Not gonna happen. Not in this household, not in this timeline. Do something.

Literally changed by career path because things were too fucked up.

I feel the same way

Kansas is absolutely high on the list of the milieu of nightmares, but I this morning we were talking about the kids we bombed and murdered in Iran.

If you're feeling like shit because everything is a fucking nightmare, and you are going to work because you have to (because if you don't you won't have health insurance), and you see everyone around you not saying shit, they may also be screaming internally too.

As we were setting up for our community feedback session today, the librarian, mural artist, & I were quietly putting folding chairs in place & setting out worksheets. Suddenly the artist was like "Does anyone feel like they're losing their mind after reading the news today?" & we all yelled YUP.

The problem is that like Hank, I do not want to run for office. If I did I would post fish facts though.

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

35-40k

Oh you're good I'm just complaining like this

The hardest lift for me is carving out the time to write. I have a million things going on and people demanding my attention. The biggest challenge isn't even writing, it's putting out all the fires approaching my sneakers enough to give myself the peace to actually let myself focus.

Hit 25k words on the manuscript tonight, hit 2000 words today, I feel like I am starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel here.

I hear ya, and I'm trying, I just start to feel like a fucking super villain when I've said no to like 5 elementary schools in one week, ya know?

I am not burnt out yet because I'm still super productive I just feel like I'm being tortured by the things I agreed to do 😅 so I feel like it's looming very close by

and to be clear I feel like an absolute asshole telling people I can't judge their 3MT or science fair but if I said yes to everyone I am serious I would be doing multiple volunteer days every week, it's fully untenable.

I am CRASHING OUT

I have been asked to serve at a science fair, judge a 3 minute thesis, review a paper, or serve at some other THING, every day this week. Every *single* day this week. I said no to all of them but I need to keep saying no for a while clearly.

Oh my fucking god I looked and that was in early November. OH my fucking GOD. I have not SAT ON MY COUCH since NOVEMBER 12th What the fuck. No wonder i feel so tired right now. This can not continue.

I am actually putting a moratorium on serving at events until my life is under control. I have to say no to anything unless it pays well for a while because this quarter is absolutely destroying me. I haven't sat on my couch since @coreybrickley.bsky.social came over last which was fucking ages ago.

I think he’s onto something here

That's me

Camel ad of a creature saving a woman or something. It's at a beach. Cops?

And what comes naturally after athletic shoes and high-priced electronic equipment? That's right, a fine, smooth Camel™ brand cigarette

Not sure what is going on in the ad tho

Hell yeah good squid

an assortment of stuff on a table, including "plan a bee's dream garden" worksheets, and two coloring pages, one of which has a dancing bee among flowers that says "build a bees dream garden" and another that has two dancing beetles (a stag beetle and a lightning bug) that says "city of brotherly bugs". There are sharpie paint pens and plant native plants signs and stakes painted white that you can color with those paint pens

I'll be at the Academy of Natural Sciences tonight at Dinos After Dark running an activity on city biodiversity! We'll make some art and I'll have some fun stuff to give away, including posters and seeds and biodiversity zines :D