fyi I have not dropped off the face of the earth, I've just... dropped off the face of the earth a little bit, because everything became unreasonably busy this week.

if I've failed to reply to you in the last couple days, I'll do it soon ❤

hey you all should recommend me some metal music, if you are into that

I don't care about the sub-genre, I just wanna put interesting/good/novel sounds in my ears. (if you rec something I already know, I'll listen to it again, and remember how good it is.) please and thank you 💙

so apparently there's a gas leak right outside my apartment. There were two folks from the energy company working on something outside, and they hit a line somehow. The whole apartment smelled nasty, but we were told to just close the windows and not have any open flames.

I guess one of my neighbors was freaked out, because somebody called the fire dept and they came by. Meanwhile I went outside and took my cat (on a leash) to escape the fumes [cont.]

bless every single person who has ever written slash fic, even if it was bad. you all have gotten me through some difficult times, and some times that are just weird. the power of gay is strong and real.

(this is a 2 am thought, yes)

I swear nice things have actually been happening in my life recently, I just vent and shit here

my cat is cute! I'm playing lots of tabletop rpgs! my research isn't bad I guess! it's a good grad student life overall

scene from today: physics department attempts to have 1 (one) actual discussion about racism; ends up with white male department chair basically yelling over a female grad student of color to show her "what it's like"; professor demanding a Black student explain structural racism to him while insisting that he personally has no implicit biases at all

just

all kinds of fuck, wow