Meredith @meredith@queer.party

Profile picture: A white woman with long brown hair, smiling. She wears a bright red shirt, red lipstick, pink glasses, and earrings. There is a large gray and black tattoo of clocks on her arm.

Header picture: A brown cat sleeps on a colorful blanket. He has stripes and spots, because he is an Ocicat. His face is resting on one paw, and his name is Spot.

Am I a little grumpy that my visa for Japan is now pointless and I have to teach for my old employer anyway? Yes.

Am I angry at the people who don't have to jump through that hoop? Of course not. What the fuck, redditors.

(Also, I have seen no commentary on ERFS. What's up with that? Is it just...over?)

Why do my URLs never expand to show titles like I see on others' posts?

https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/october-2022/bodies-of-knowledge-philadelphia-and-the-dark-history-of-collecting-human-remains

Decided to start going through the NYT crossword archives from the beginning in 1993. It takes some extra work to figure out clues like these:

Socks, e.g. (3 letters)
MS follower? (3 letters)
Strawberry, once (3 letters)

Just watched a video of a Deaf dad signing to his preemie baby. A commenter said "Aww, she's watching your every move!"

Y'all, babies can't see shit. 😆

drama

🇱🇷 = Liberia
🇺🇸 = USA

Holy crap, I just learned about eSIM data plans. You mean I didn't have to spend 36 frustrated hours in Athens struggling with pocket wifi and street-cart SIM cards?!

Such a sleepy me this morning.

Today is the last day of my Invisalign treatment. I will keep wearing the last set until my retainers arrive in three weeks, but the movement is done. Then I look forward to four weeks later, when I finally get to have my teeth back during my waking hours! I am going to chew SO much gum.

Just submitted the application to host blocks from the AIDS Quilt at work on World AIDS Day this year. Making this happen will be a dream come true.

Moving into the next stage of my orthodontic journey. Attachments came off this morning, and I have an appointment three weeks from today to get my retainers. 🦷

The manifesting did not work but the waiting did. Almost like you can't hope things into happening, you can only do the work!

(Sometimes the work is just being patient.)

Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

get out of my head 😭

Update: did not work.

Air Canada, please do the thing. ✨ Manifesting ✨

(Am I doing this right?)

I have domain blocked botsin.space and I think my occasional perusal of the federated timeline will be much better.

Help, I listened to one Taylor Swift song on a friend's behalf and now it won't go away.