Cassandra F

I love your random numbers!

The whole reason our species started forming communities in the first place was so survival wouldn't have to be a full-time job. Our ancestors would be deeply disappointed, people!

Yay, the plant named after a Lewis Carroll poem!

Yeah, ranked choice voting is illegal now in Missouri :(

Don't get me wrong, he still encourages people to learn programming because it can be a useful skill. He just tries to talk people out of making a career out of it.

Speaking as someone who has fallen asleep on a pile of papers, it would not be my first choice of napping surface. Why does she seek them out? She will get up from a spot that I would have thought to be much comfier, specifically to nap on my papers!

At the very beginning of UBI, we would all probably be very, *very* cringe. It would take us a while to find the healthy level of cringe.

My dad (a semi-retired programmer) has been trying to talk people out of getting into programming for years for this very reason.

And you wouldn't have to artificially inflate desire for your product to be viable. When people wanted your product, you could be there for them. When people didn't, you could still survive.

Damn, now I feel like I've dropped the ball!

Luna is helping me stretch!

HRW has become one of my major sources of news.

This isn't actually part of the project, just me trying to gather some thoughts. But I think it does a pretty good job summing up one of the contradictions people in academic spaces have to deal with.

For the last few years I've been working off and on on a weird writing project One of the things it attempts to do is capture everything I loved and hated about my time at the university.

Academia changed my life. I wouldn't be the person I am without it!

It took me longer than usual to notice that there's an REM song with an oboe part. Playing the oboe myself and all, I usually notice these things right away.

Wow, I've seen nine of these!

Goddammit! Amtrak was just *starting* to recover from Reagan!

I have the coolest toys.

My body was telling me to stay home today, but I'm very proud that my family was part of this!

Oh good, the state I live in is in the news for embarrassing reasons again ... >:(

I would say it's less "putting up with" and more "glad to have around."

So many good lines in that scene.

I'm blowing all of this year's (tiny) Concord grape harvest and what's left of the catnip on a fermented soda. I hope it's tasty!

Why did I just write the number 62 on a notepad?

I feel for you!

Graphing hyperbolas and trig functions because I lost some of my crafting notes.

KU Physics and Astronomy Department urges students to use 'forbidden' words The KU Physics & Astronomy Department chair, Christopher Fischer, sent an email to department students Friday afternoon that urges them to use "forbidden words" such as race, diversity and gender

Everyone, meet my undergrad physics professor! www.kansan.com/news/ku-phys...

Oh, hey, there I am! Yep, I remember that project!

OMG! I did undergrad research with him! He's the guy who convinced me to go to grad school (for all the good that did)!