Dr. Paula R. Curtis

Pulled something in my back. 🫠 it’s been like four days and still not really better. 😩

As someone who deliberately befriends my neighbors and shouts at them through the windows now I’m lying on the floor hoping no one looks inside and fears I’ve fallen and can’t get up. Which might be a little true.

Mom: stop being mean to mango he’s not stupid

Mango :

I definitely read that as “word” and was like “damn how bad could they be?”

Ohhh good to know. Back pain is not a frequent thing for me at this level of severity (fingers crossed!!) so I haven’t regularly done anything for it.

What are back muscles and why do they persist in tormenting me for more than 4 days? 😩 Don’t they know I need to concentrate to do work, not yell profanities that scare the cats?

who could ever doubt the CCC man bsky.app/profile/paul...

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two short pipes against an electricity pole that soooomeone put some googly eyes on to make it look suspicious.

if you are desperately in need of some whimsy right now, me too. sooooomeone is doing their part in a centralized account... 👀👀👀 www.instagram.com/whocouldhave...

A tortie in a bow tie with avocados on it, looking offended at the demand that she contribute.

GET A JOB, RIGATONI

a felt Totoro face-down on a black side table, looking how we all feel

hard same

He is belovedly stuffed down the back of my pants right now where he belongs.

I should have linked a better shot! bsky.app/profile/paul...

(for the record he looks grimier in that photo than he is 😂) bsky.app/profile/paul...

A rice and rosemary felt Totoro sitting inside a microwave.

Thanks! Since pasta cat is not helpful for recovery I have turned to my rice bag Totoro (made by the talented @sunshot.bsky.social). Totoro is still very dutiful after many many years.

A tortie cat named Rigatoni wearing a bow tie and sitting expectantly on top of the back od a real couch, one paw outstretched with murder mits armed. She watches her human, laid up on the couch with terrible back pain, with no sympathy. No sympathy, only play.

A girl who firmly believes messing up your back is no reason not to play with her.

The world’s on fire and I wrenched my back in my sleep and the syllabi aren’t anywhere near done there goes Saturday in bed at 8pm it is. 🙃

heard this in @michaelhobbes.bsky.social’s voice

He was so sure he was gonna get that bird. 😭💚

A majestic white long haired cat named Bruce flopped on a table reaching out with a paw to gently touch an iPad playing his bird shows.

A majestic white long haired cat named Bruce flopped on a table calmly watching an iPad playing his bird shows from a foot away.

Sometimes you toucha da birds and sometimes you respectfully observe them from afar

A fluffy white long haired cat named Bruce stepping down from a dining room chair onto a small set of stairs.

Last morning with His Majesty Bruce. 🥹 I brought over the little steps I used when Freckles got up there in age. Bruce is still really spry for 20 but it’s important to take the strain off those old leggies.

After you, friend.

Boiling this exchange down to “East Asia is not the same as Asian American” misses the core issue referenced about current challenges to education devaluing many such humanistic topics related to identity, marginalization, etc.—regardless of regional focus—that students are intensely interested in.

I recommended she send them to my class, which, yes, is in East Asia, but specifically is on marginalized identities in Japan, including indigenous peoples. This subject is seldom taught, even more rarely taught as a premodern course, & currently also the subject of censorship at many institutions.

You are still missing the point both Miriam & I were making. She was responding to a post on subjects deemed “low enrollment” by saying that many, such as African American Studies, Women/Gender/Sexuality Studies, Asian American Studies, etc. various marginalized topics/identities, were always full.

Will do! Socials can be a real bummer 90% of the time these days, so I figure a little Bruce is good for us all.

we are all Bruce

volume up to hear his tender happy bird purr

in his gentle heart I am sure

A white kitty gazing attentively at an iPad with a bird hopping about on it.

cat tv 12 hours of birds and squirrels (YouTube)