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Day 84: mixed feelings about bubble wrap. On the one hand, plastics and whatever. Not particularly sustainable, and they leach chemicals into the environment. But on the other hand, every now and then when my lab mate thinks I’m not looking she’ll pop a single bubble in the bubble wrap and it makes my day. Like, I’ll be doing my thing at the bench and just hear a single *SNAP*. No idea why she’s so discrete. Maybe the discretion is a critical aspect of the whimsy that she experiences from it—who’s to say? But I always hear it and it makes me smile.

I’ll have to look up if there’s good, sustainable bubble wrap for the lab, and keep some by the door.

#grateful #gratitude #bubble wrap #laboratory #grad school

Day 83: thank the lord Jesus Christ for Jimothy the Raccoon. I am alive to see him, and He is Here. I could cry. I have cried. I will cry again, because Jimothy is perfect.

#grateful #gratitude #jimothy #thank god

sexhaver

that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it's "the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it".... man.......

funkylilpunk

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno

Day 83: indoor plumbing

#grateful #gratitude

Day 82: grateful for phone

#grateful #gratitude #smart phone

Day 81 (continued): thank god epaulette sharks exist

#grateful #gratitude #epaulette shark

Day 81: grateful to not have the diarrhea parasite

#grateful #gratitude #diarrhea parasite

Day 80: grateful for overpriced street fair food and freely given snacks from friends

#grateful #gratitude #street fair #friendship #food #snacks

Day 79: grateful my mom taught me critical reasoning and how to tell people off

#grateful #gratitude #mothers #mom