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Ellen W.

@spurioustuple.bsky.social

Punk ass book jockey, academic edition

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While making holiday cards for a skilled nursing facility. I also read vol III of On the Calculation of Volume and today I got the new edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. And in non-book news, tonight was the inaugural draft of the new women’s pro baseball league!

21.11.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve had a very, very, very long week but it has also been book-heavy. Tuesday I went to a Zoom discussion about book awards. Wednesday night M and I watched the livestream of the National Book Awards. Tonight I went to the student book club, where we discussed both Shatter Me and Gravity’s Rainbow…

21.11.2025 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We used to not have to do anything if we just wanted to stay with the same stuff and then a few years ago they started making us go through this horrid online system every year to select things.

13.11.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This morning at the gym I got my knee to the floor on all the sandbag lunges, but the really impressive part, I think, is that I then got back up. Yes, everything is sore.

11.11.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I played around with zine templates today. I was really excited about a one page version, only to discover upon printing that it was for A4 paper.

03.11.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you let someone cut in front if you in traffic and they don’t do the little hand wave as thanks, you should be legally allowed to ram their car.

30.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1907    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 160    πŸ“Œ 35

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 39413    πŸ” 14883    πŸ’¬ 567    πŸ“Œ 659
A man dressed in a Scream costume and a woman dressed in a grey and black baseball outfit holding a red and black baseball bat stands in an office area.

A man dressed in a Scream costume and a woman dressed in a grey and black baseball outfit holding a red and black baseball bat stands in an office area.

This building’s portion of the Systems Department is in the Halloween spirit.

31.10.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Costume #1

Yes, I did a full workout in this. πŸ˜‚

31.10.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am done with my to do list for the day and there are still 75 minutes left in the work day. If I didn’t have to run a time-specific errand after work I would have figured out how to get out of here early. It rained all day Sunday and today is nice, there ought to be some sort of comp time for that

28.10.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Steve Urkel saying DID AI DO THAT

Steve Urkel saying DID AI DO THAT

In case it's useful.

27.10.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 374    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

We waited too long to buy plane tickets for Christmas so we’re home for 17 glorious days without work and if I can (I cannot) stop acquiring books I should be able to make some TBR progress.

26.10.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

100%

26.10.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a trained information professional, I approve.

26.10.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Pfft that’s not a pile, it’s barely a stack. You need more books.

26.10.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So smug

26.10.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am feeling pretty smug about how well the book club I started is going.

26.10.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

molly the beauty of the first game in the series is the promise of endless possibilities tbh

25.10.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

I think some sort of memo was sent to units outside the library about emailing me to demand money to replace existing technology that still works. My dudes, I have no budget.

22.10.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What remains of my dignity, however, was grievously wounded.

21.10.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I tripped yesterday and very narrowly avoided smashing my face into concrete thanks to the heroic work of my left wrist, which is now a bit sore and swollen. This morning I found out about a walk-in ortho clinic so I went there to make sure I hadn’t really injured anything. Just a bad strain!

21.10.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I need glasses for every single distance now!

21.10.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At least I can just say it’s working now.

20.10.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Came in to find one zillion emails about library platforms being down due to the AWS outage.

20.10.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Excuse me, did you say for college?!?

19.10.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

We don’t appreciate it enough when we have it.

12.10.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Rushing to the pharmacy to pick up my fat checks from Merck and Pfizer.

09.10.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2117    πŸ” 307    πŸ’¬ 135    πŸ“Œ 17

Anyway this morning I was trying to decide what to do this weekend and thought of our conversation and decided to seek joy.

04.10.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I talked to my college chaplain yesterday for the first time since 1998 and he helped me sort out some theological dilemmas I’ve been facing. I am not a regular churchgoer but I do have a faith tradition that’s meaningful to me and he helped me sort through some things.

04.10.2025 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I held a puppy!

04.10.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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