From the launch party for The Stone Sky, way back in August 2017, at the Housing Works bookstore in SoHo. (Why does it feel like that was 2,334,872 years ago? Don't answer, I know why.) The intrepid disaster researcher/Stargate consultant/SETI researcher* Mika McKinnon graced us with her awesomeness, and we had a chat about geophysics and disasters. I know squat about geophysics -- I nerd out about rocks and volcanoes, is all -- so I just hope I didn't bore her. She's such a fun person.

We tried to commission a geode cake for this event, but for some reason none of the fancy cake places we called were willing to make one. So we ordered a very nice cake from one of the places that was polite about it, and my intrepid assistant ordered these rock-sugar cake toppers from Lucitini Cakes, and badow.

*She has like a million titles. I picked my faves.

Not to be dramatic but I can’t eat prawn cocktail crisps anymore and it’s quite possibly the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.

"I'm never going to be free of that man I've never spoken to or even seen on my dash, am I?" I'm not even involved in this but idk why you don't just say what a stupid shit he is like youd do with any moid you came across. you respond to peoples opinions on dumb posts all the time but for some reason you seem to want to defend this idiot.

...because I come across them. Because there they are, in front of my face doing man things and I comment. For some reason you and whoever else* specifically want my attention on this particular one. Which, someone said a little while ago they like the way I explain things and that's insanely flattering, sincerely, but I *try* to speak from knowledge and experience to avoid talking out of my ass.

I don't want to put the energy into gaining enough knowledge and experience to speak about this man. He is not a thought in my head until I get yet another ask mentioning him. In the nine years I have been on this hellsite, I don't think I've gotten this many asks about literally anything else. First from people demanding I defend him and then from people encouraging and later demanding that I condemn him.

My cat posts didn't get me this many asks. The story I wrote didn't get me this many asks. Poorly worded earlier posts I've made didn't get me this many asks. Original posts that made their way to the rapist fandom didn't get this many asks. TRAs haven't sent me this many asks.

I don't want to put energy into this male! Tumblr to me is my dashboard and nothing else. I follow 201 people, nearly all of them women to the best of my knowledge, and no tags at all. If someone I don't follow doesn't come up on the posts I see when I'm active, either directly on the posts of people I follow or on the "based on your likes!" I don't see them. They don't exist to me. This male should not exist to me. He doesn't exist to me apart from when you people keep bringing him up. Why you want an extra man to exist in my life is beyond me, especially here. Like I'm sorry that you etcetera are unable to let go of him, but I promise your lives will be better when you do. Pinky promise.

*I don't even know how many people are involved here. Maybe you're all the same damn person. Hell, maybe you're all him! I wouldn't put it past a scrote to do something like this--men do all kinds of shit to get female attention--but fucked if I know. Now, go on! Bring on an anon telling me I'm joining in a smear campaign against him because of those last two sentences. Let's at least vary this up a bit.

Going on my first overseas holiday in YEARS next month and wooo I’m so excited 🙌🏼🎉

A benefit of having to postpone the big family Christmas dinner AND it being the last night of Hanukkah is that I get to make latkes tonight. Changing into my shittiest clothes for fry time.

elite premiered four years ago today 🤯

yeehaw game ranch puppet my beloved

i had to go to georgia for a funeral that was on friday and my work’s bereavement leave policy depends on your relation to the person and for this person it was 3 days so I was like “ok the funeral is on friday so the plan is I’ll work monday tuesday wednesday, use pto thursday and friday and then use the 3 bereavement days on wednesday thursday friday next week” and my manager’s like “no you can’t do that. the bereavement days have to be consecutive” and i’m like “?????? those days are consecutive” and she’s like “no you’re going to a funeral so that’s when the bereavement days have to be. so you gotta take wednesday off so the days can be consecutive” but i’m still thinking “bruh who fuckin cares just let me use the days next week. it’s the same number of days” but I didn’t want to argue more so I did what she said and really the only thing is that I had to use one more pto day than I wanted to 🤷🏾‍♂️

🦋✨ wedding weekend✨🦋

Look at this gorgeous ring my husband gave me as a birthday present ♡

GOD my nodes are killing me

turned my key in at work. end of an era 😭

my brain has been replaced with a "potion" made by a child in their backyard

Can’t believe I soon have to go and be a freaking robot for 8+ hours again. 

Already feel like being run over. Or I am getting sick idk. Immune system is down since yesterday night.

Gotta find a better job if only those kind of jobs wouldn’t eat all my dopamine and energy.

Maybe this is why I wasn’t super excited and giddy for the stray kids concert bc I still couldn’t wrap my head around being able to see them for the first time when the universe was completely against me getting tickets for their last two tours. Like it was too good to be true. Anyway, I hope the Boys recover quickly and are able to get lots of rest.

well today is the best ive felt in a while but i can’t smell rn 💀