mermaids in the basement

I’m Courtney, the owner of the house you’re standing on

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Not really knowing what to do with the AI assistant that my company paid for is probably what it felt like when my grandparents didn’t know what to do with the computers that their companies paid for back in the day. Ethics aside it just takes more time to ask the bot to help me than it does to just do my task.

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just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

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The key to fried green tomatoes I have discovered is not to allow the oil to know you’re afraid of it and then they come out delicious.

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Been managing the emotions of everyone around me plus my own for two weeks and my boyfriend hurt my feelings so I was mean to him and I regret it but sometimes you just gotta be mean.

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Sagres, Portugal by Luca Severin

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I feel like I need to lie down in the surf and allow the sea to wash over my body like a beached shipwreck for a few hours and then I will feel better.

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In bed with cooling eye patches under my eyes and the knowledge that my boss is on vacation for the rest of the week #goodnight

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Both of my parents are injured and half of them are home now but from Saturday-Tuesday I slept about approximately maybe perhaps 5 hours and 45 minutes. Early Tuesday morning mom emerged from her fog and made me go home to rest and nobody argues with my mother, even when she’s on pain meds, so I had the most delicious sleep of my entire life from 4am-9am. And then last night I slept 7 entire hours in a row. I’ve never felt such deep guilt and anxiety for being born as only one person and not being able to divide myself like a cell and be in two places at once—nobody made me feel that way, I just did. With dad home now I feel like I have one little chick safely under my wing but my mom is still waiting for a second surgery and I don’t think I could have done this without my village.

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In the emergency department all night with my parents who were in an accident and here’s a list of Situations I have overheard:

Man who took a firework to the groin

Man who had mortar from a firework lodged in his leg

Man who was hit in the eyeball with a firework

Man who was shot

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA 🇺🇸

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I love stopping by the house on my lunch break and seeing my cat and he’s like “omg girl hey!!!! I’m so sleepy so you just get whatever you want out of the fridge ok love you bye 😴 “

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Subtropical Rainforest by JC Terry

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There’s not much worse than the feeling that you might throw up but it won’t come.

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You reach your penultimate adult form when your mom views you as old enough to be told some level 5 family lore.

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I don’t typically drink but something about getting sunburned with a book in the pool has made me TIPSY. This is now the second post I have made about this but this is my tumblr dot com blog.

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