Jess Blankshain

Listening to the annual Poscast Holiday Draft is one of my marriage's foundational holiday traditions. Time to plan a road trip @davidmglick.bsky.social

Spotify Wrapped: my top artist Taylor Swift minutes listened 25,889 Top 0.03% global fan

77,875 top listener of Taylor Swift globally

Well this is a relief after slipping to top 0.5% last year.

The ch that @profjessblankshain.bsky.social and I wrote focuses on how the Total Force Policy affected the reserves: “Combined with the post–Cold War security environment, it fundamentally changed the way the reserve component is employed, increasing its operational use and professionalization.”

That moment when the book is actually real! @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social and I really enjoyed working on our chapter on the future of the Total Force.

Likes a weighted blanket but usually kicks it off. Can't explain what wakes him up. Will go back to sleep right away with a parent (who then gets kicked all night) or left to his own devices sit up for hours with the lights on reading and listening to audio books.

Any recommendations to help a kid with sensory issues stay asleep at night? I'm seeing a bunch of weighted/compression blanket/pod/sheet options but not sure where to start.

Do we think Robert Irwin would partner with me for a video tutorial on how to change a toddler doing a death roll?

Wow Anne with an E season 3 is just one gut punch after another

*Listening to TLOAS with preschooler, who I have been assuming does not pay attention to song lyrics*
Him: Mama there aren't keys to the city
Me: uhoh

Eating canned peas (straight from the can, obvi) for an after work snack, as one does

It has been 0 days since Jess got way too fired up talking about Marbury v Madison

I regret to inform you that waking up half an hour earlier does make mornings less stressful

Somehow this seems to be primarily a milk chocolate problem. I can still stress eat Skittles and Nerds gummy clusters with the best of them.

Help I'm "Halloween candy is too sweet" old and I'm not ready for this

Finally watching K Pop Demon Hunters. The children refused to watch it with me.

My kids are going to understand that the combination of the time change and this game means they should sleep in tomorrow, right? I assume they can just absorb ambient stress levels in their sleep or something.

I'm building the botanical collection bonsai tree while I rewatch the episode of GBBO I feel asleep in the middle of last night. Read the room.

Ok Lego app can we stop with the "prove you're an adult" math because that is not where I am cognitively right now

Got word I'm back to work on Monday with or without a paycheck. Catching up on @sirenspod.bsky.social to ease back into the foreign policy decision-making headspace.

Happy "panic ordering a new Halloween costume bc your child changed their mind again" week to all who celebrate

Being the parent who knows which trash is trash and which trash is NOT trash is a lot of pressure

The main thing I have learned as the parent of an early elementary school aged child is that I hold a pencil wrong

Ok my initial reaction is that way too many of these stars have dance backgrounds

We've reached the "watching Dancing With the Stars while I clean the kitchen" stage of furlough

Watching Boots is making me realize how much I normally rely on hairstyles to tell characters apart

Just realized that Hop Little Bunnies is basically training my toddler to do burpees. This feels unwise.

Toddler asked me to do three different floor puzzles so she could take them apart and put them back in the box. I went along with it because it's less destructive than some of her other activities.

The thing I most often yell at the TV while watching any version of The Traitors is "chill out no one is really dead!"

A screen shot of half marathon race results with an overall time of 2:24:08 and pace splits of 10:20 min/mile through 5K, 10:33 through 10K, 10:47 through 10 miles, and 11:00 at the finish

As I said, some of us were more worried about beating the rain than others 🤣

Two people in running gear stand on the beach early in the morning

The same two people (one now holding a toddler) sit on a cement wall in front of the ocean holding up medals with ribbons for me that say 13.1

Furlough can't keep us from morning PT! @theomilo.bsky.social and I beat the nor'easter at the Newport Half Marathon this morning (one of us by a somewhat more comfortable margin)