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if you say "as one does" after any phrase nobody's allowed to think you're weird anymore. cheat code bypass for all standards of social normalcy

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In my quest to get this guy to like me at least half as much as he likes N, I took him on a run this morning and a dog playdate (with my friend's dog, while I played music with my friends) this afternoon. He likes me ok

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Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of Thimbleberry coming to live at my house. A year ago they were an ant and now they are a giant dinosaur

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cats can never just lay down they have to stand there on your pancreas

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N: I've had the same song stuck in my head for three days.

Me: Do you need help getting it out?

N: I don't know how to get it out.

Me: By replacing it.

N: In that case, absolutely not.

Me: I could replace it for you.

N: Don't you do it.

Me: I don't even need to sing it, you know what it is.

N: Stop!

Me: You know what it is!!

N: STOP ITTTTTTTTTT!!!!

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✨️ The Enrichment has Enriched! ✨️

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In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself; then I name a hall.

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

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Latest low-stakes sketchbook fun

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Antique Czech Glass Charms

(c. 1890s-1930s)

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I watched Sinners and it was very good

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Hey can you guys believe I get to run here whenever I want

(Photo credit: Ethan O Cusick)

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Also, even if I DNF, I just think that DNFing a 100M next year would better prepare me to finish one the following year than finishing a 100k (which I could have done last summer) would.

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If I do finish that 100 miler, though, I get to put in my ticket for Western States.

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Other Running Life Updates (lolol) besides "I have decided to enter a 100 miler next year even though I have not run a 50 miler fast enough to predict making the 100 miler cutoff time" include:

-My watch died (the watch, not the battery; it cannot be revived) at approximately mile 47 of my race and I have not yet replaced it. I have been running watchless for four weeks. I have no idea what my paces are and only a rough idea how far I am running. The strava stalkers I definitely have think I'm dead. I feel free.

-My friend is running a 200 miler in two weeks and I am crewing her for the back half (with our other friend) and pacing her miles 143-161. I'm really excited for it. I'm going to camp, sleep for three hours at a time, and live filthily out of the crew van. I've never been present at anything longer than a 50 miler. This will be a REAL adventure, just like in the movies*

*30-minute youtube documentaries