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#fluffydisasters

Me: why can't I breathe ever?

My cat:

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Honestly, what better way to end pride month than to panic and accidentally come out to someone in your church small group when they compliment your bisexual snake shirt during Bible study?

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Carefully followed a protocol passed down to me by the Postdoc Who Went Before and it worked GREAT except the absorbance was off the ELISA reader charts in over half the samples so I emailed said postdoc and was like “by any chance does this working protocol that says to follow manufacturer’s instructions for the kit have alterations to the incubation period that are not noted” and she was like yes! I only incubated it for a third of the time!!

It’s fine, slight waste of fresh human blood cells that are a pain to get because of COVID but EVERYTHING IS FINE

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Day 2 of vacation at my parents’: arguments with dad over political issues have already resulted in at least 1 hour long crying jag, we’ve got an extended family member in hospice, and a hurricane popped up that’s supposed to hit the day of a deep sea fishing trip that I swear is cursed because we have been trying to do it for SIX YEARS AND THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS. Only 6 more days to go!! Can’t wait to see how this develops!! 

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Can’t believe I have to convince my adult cat to not eat ketchup, like, Ash, you are an adult please comport yourself with dignity and sense

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Me, contemplating working from home: at least I’ll get a chance to see what my cats do all day

Me now, after watching one of my cats stare intently at an unplugged speaker and bundle of wires for twenty minutes: I can’t believe you’re actually this dumb.

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Me: I’m home before 6:30! Are you glad to see me???

My cats: who are you and what are you doing in our apartment

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My university keeps sending emails like “ALL CLASSES ARE MOVED ON-LINE FOR THE REST OF THE SEMESTER” and “UNDERGRADS GET THE HELL OUT OF DORMS, WE DON’T CARE WHERE YOU GO JUST GET OUT OF THE PESTILENCE BREEDING GROUNDS” and “ALL NON-ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL NEED TO STAY AT HOME AND AWAY FROM THE ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL.”

Meanwhile, the graduate students are like “you going in this Saturday?” and “eh, I had to go to the hospital to pick up samples earlier this week, it’s too late to save me so I might as well keep working on this experiment.” 

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wow this is a mood

honestly fuck viruses they’re not even alive they’re just strands of punk ass DNA that go around fucking up us normal and god fearing life forms you don’t even have a nucleus you stupid bacteriophage looking horizontally transmitting RNA clump

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Update: it got canceled. Am now drinking hot chocolate as a reward for Dealing With This Nonsense.

Them: How’s planning the student side of recruitment weekend going?

Me: It’s going well!

Me, internally: Recruitment planning was not going well. I was two student cancellations and a room reservation away from a full break-down. Friday the 13th, the day of reckoning, was fast approaching and we were not prepared. There were 29 students coming and they brought COVID-19 with them like carrion fowl following behind a great host. 

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Them: How’s planning the student side of recruitment weekend going?

Me: It’s going well!

Me, internally: Recruitment planning was not going well. I was two student cancellations and a room reservation away from a full break-down. Friday the 13th, the day of reckoning, was fast approaching and we were not prepared. There were 29 students coming and they brought COVID-19 with them like carrion fowl following behind a great host. 

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Forget the alphabet song, this is how I’m getting the pre-k class to wash their hands from now on.

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Further Super Bowl updates: selecting a team to support because “it reminds me of a 21 Pilots song” is regrettable, but Andre has conceded it’s probably the best I can do based on my level of football knowledge.

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Update: Andre from custodial is walking me through the various benefits of supporting either the 49ers or Kansas City, though he assures me that the Raiders retain his loyalty.

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I cannot believe the GALL of the 54th Super Bowl, like how am I supposed to pick a team to root for when they have the same team colors???

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I LOVE LACKADAISY SO MUCH IT DESERVES SO MUCH MORE HYPE

in honor of the new roaring 20s, we as a culture are going to stop sleeping on lackadaisy. 

it’s a webcomic written and drawn by tracy j. butler, set in 1927 st. louis. we follow the staff of a failing speakeasy as they struggle to keep their business afloat. chaos and a lot of murder ensues. it started in 2006 and still updates – no particular schedule, but always, always worth the wait. i’ve been a loyal reader for a decade now. it’s dark, funny, has SO much research put into it, and has some mindbogglingly gorgeous art. it was always great, but as the years have gone by it’s just gotten better and better. some samples:

this was all done by one person.

one. person.

ONE. PERSON.

if you’re into mystery/thrillers, prohibition era fiction, anthropomorphic kitties, awesome character development, and comics with lots of supplementary content to tide you over between updates…. go read lackadaisy.

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I was dancing to AJR earlier after meeting with my new thesis committee chair because it’s Friday and I’m going to the hospital to run samples which always makes me feel happy and like a Real Scientist but then I almost fell down, realized literally anyone walking by the elevators could see me, and retreated to my lab bench to continue dancing.

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL FIRST FRIDAY