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Awkward Adventures in Time: Labor 4 →
It is an intensely weird moment when one finds that one’s past is suddenly a plot point on TV. At the ‘view, the man in the wall was actually a possum in the wall downstairs, who we did not find out about until he died and then we had a whole bunch of really well fed flies appearing from nowhere and even now, years later, that thought induces a little bit of retching. I always knew...
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I can tell I spent more than enough time outside this weekend because I ...
– I got them onto the transfer shuttle, I do not have the skills to fly a plane. I also briefly paused to remember that “occupada” was not the false cognate for “pregnant”, which was a quick self-esteem check.
Though SFO has a bigger complement of agents; and I split my travels from this coast...
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Here in my pants/
I know I’ve started to think/
About leaving tonight/
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– (via capnmariam)
old me was not a misunderstood genius. (parse that as you will.)
April 2013
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in... →
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Among the problems that come with being in the sciences is the fact that if you...
– Anyhow, that beast at Tanagra reference was gold, Jerry! Gold!!
… Though the universal translator can translate their words, the Tamarians only communicate through metaphor which baffles the Enterprise crew. Likewise, the Tamarians cannot understand Picard’s straightforward use of...
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It has a name! →
(I mean, a name besides “diphthongization”, which is a fine enough name in the context of all conceivable ungainly Latinate* word-constructions, but maybe isn’t the clearest of ideas.)
*Vulgar Latin is probably one of the most useful languages, and not just because I get saucy** when it comes to talking about misplaced tongues.
**Proto-romance languages are the first pit-stop...
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While arts and sciences were both always present at my table (though I felt that it was more important to prepare myself for a life in the latter because the former “I would probably totally be able to fake”,) I distinctly remember finally internally leaning one way, as I wept in the theater as I watched the South Park movie thinking that, clearly, the best thing had now already been made and...
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