Memoria🩷🤍💜🖤

Mary and William met in a scene that could have come straight out of a rom-com. He was forty-one, she was twenty-eight, and the two of them happened to be traveling in the same coach. William Buckland was reading a thick, brand-new book by Georges Cuvier, the greatest anatomist of the age. Buckland's fellow passenger was absorbed in a thick book of her own. Buckland was carrying a letter of introduction to a young woman who lived nearby, a Miss Morland, who was apparently deeply devoted to science. He ventured a word. May I ask the name of the book that has so captivated you? Could anyone fail to guess that the young woman an would herself be Miss Morland? And that the book she was reading was the very tome by Cuvier that Buckland himself was reading? The two were soon married. Well-to-do English couples in this era [Text is purposely cut off here]

Historical meet-cute 🥺

(They had a 10 month honeymoon where they mostly looked at rocks)

Pokopia clips and screenshots all over my feed (🐦) and I don't feel FOMO??? Am I healing??? Or is it just the knowledge I cannot afford a Switch 2???

If not for a cosmic accident, our rodent-sized forebears would presumably still be there trembling in the moon's faint light, and humans would never have come to be. And so our rise seems less a matter of a hard climb to the top and more akin to the story of a mailroom clerk who suddenly finds himself CEO because nearly everyone else was killed in an earthquake.

All educated Victorians were steeped in the classics, so they knew the story of the triumphal parades held to honor a commander who had come home to Rome victorious in battle. As the cheers of the crowd rose up, a companion whispered in the great man's ear, "Remember you are mortal." In the nineteenth century, geology and paleontology took on that whisperer's dread role. With its fossils and its extinct creatures and its vanished worlds, science delivered the fearsome message "You, too, are mortal. You, too, will pass away."

A grey scale scan of an ink drawing of an ichthyosaur's head, with faded cursive writing beneath it. The caption under the scan reads: This is a drawing of an ichthyosaur's head, by Elizabeth Philpot. She painted the skull using ink from a fossil squid (she had devised a technique for reviving the ink by mixing it with water). The ink, like the ichthyosaur, was two hundred million years old.

Some excerpts from (what I've read so far of) Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party by Edward Dolnick

I said I'd go hang out with irl friends but now I regret it because I'm so very tired and have games I want to play

My genetics have cursed me in many ways, but at least I don't have the "cilantro tastes like soap" gene

in case you missed it yesterday, we have released the cover for book 3 of the ANA AND DIN MYSTERIES, which is A TRADE OF BLOOD

Body keeps pranking me and it makes me feel like I'm going insane

Man I haven't done anything creative in so long...

I've just been so low on energy for it

Brand new response after telling someone "Have a good day":

"I know."

I accept responsibility for the fact she has grown very attached to emotes, gifs, and bitmoji but I've had nothing to do with this

Alright who started my mom on ending her sentences with an ellipses

MURIEL RUKEYSER

Effort at Speech Between Two People

Read Stitches: A Memoir by David Small

5/5

I adore graphic novel memoirs/autobiographies, and this one is a stand out. Excellent use of paneling, lighting, and overall visual language along with the writing itself.

This was a brand new bag too, can't save these at work since the packet is paper

Tried steeping it for about 1.5 minutes instead of the full 3

Did help mellow the ginger out but now it mainly tastes like brown rice and the bellflower root 🤔

Payroll finally posted W2s

Sooner I get taxes done the better but god I'm so tired

Read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

3.5/5 stars (rounded down on Goodreads). I did like it, but I think knowing the twist killed the tension and reveal.

Related: Not sure the strain it took to read the text was worth the savings from buying the Dover Thrift Edition

Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - God Knows 🧡🤎🩵

Advantages to getting to work early/on time

❌ Get paid a little more
❌ Shows you're dependable
✅ Fifteen extra minutes before you have to turn on the customer service filter

Tiny paper crane made from a scrap of sticky note

Penny and dime for scale

I had it with a spoonful of honey last night and liked it a lot more, but it only helped balance out the ginger

Underneath the ginger I can taste the brown rice and a little of what I assume to be the bitterness from the bellflower.

I might try only steeping it for a minute next time and see if that helps

Last night's bedtime (and this morning's first) tea: Songwon Balloon Flower and Pear Tea

The problem with putting ginger in anything is it very quickly becomes the main (or only) thing you can taste, and I cannot taste the pear or jujube in this. Like at all.

Next step is to see if it steeps well multiple times and how the chocolate tastes with that

Update: Brewed a fresh bag this morning and added about half a package (roughly two tablespoons?) of Swiss Miss dark chocolate hot cocoa mix and it's exactly what I imagined

Milk chocolate would better balance with the bitter chicory and black tea I think, but this is really good too

Woman so beautiful I got stunlocked came in this morning

You gotta take the little things

A light blue mug with a dark brown liquid in it, to the left of the mug is the foil packet of Bigelow Toasted Coconut Almond Bark tea, with the string and tag hanging outside the packet

The back of the foil packet of Bigelow Toasted Coconut Almond Bark tea. Ingredients: black tea, rose hips, green tea, chamomile, chicory root, natural coconut and almond flavors with other natural flavors, licorice root

Tea for this morning (at work): Bigelow Toasted Coconut Almond Bark

I question the name since the ingredients only list "natural coconut and almond flavors", but it does taste really good! Doesn't need milk or sugar, but I think it would be even better with some chocolate in it.

--and I enjoyed her introduction as much as I enjoyed reading the story itself, her experiences growing up in former Yugoslavia offers a unique view of it.

Just kidding someone lent me a copy of Animal Farm (the 75th anniversary edition) so I read that first

5 stars

I actually really liked how little room Orwell left for misinterpretation of what he's actually writing about (Soviet/Stalinist Communism). This edition's introduction is by Téa Obreth--