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I'm Sarah. She/Her. On Earth since the 80s. On tumblr since 2009. Contact.

[notso-darling]

In the midst of day 2 of the 20 minute project

[torturedpoetspsychward]

happy june 3rd to everyone except luke danes

[floraexpress]

"Self-Portrait as a Cocoon" by artist Valeria Duca

[notso-darling]

We also planted these flowers last fall. They started opening up in the past month or so. My favorite is the one that looks like it has bedhead. It just grew that way and I didn’t think it would turn purple but it did.

[celebrateeachnewday]

Artist Maggie Vandewalle

[notso-darling]

@jennhoney

[sevenfromelevenisfour]

Joan Murrell Owens PhD

This is part of a quilt I'm making showcasing some scientific advancements made by African American scientists.

Joan Murrell Owens was a marine biologist that specialized in the study of button corals. While she wanted to study marine science from a young age, the university she attended didn’t have a program in that field, so she went into the field of education. After more than a decade working in that field, she found her male colleagues were being paid more than her, and Owens quit her job to go back to school studying her lifelong passion. Again, her university did not have a dedicated undergraduate program in the marine sciences, so she completed her B.S. in geology with a minor in zoology to gain the necessary knowledge set. She then earned a M.S. and was hired as a geology professor at Howard University. Simultaneously, she worked as a technician at the Smithsonian and conducted research towards her doctorate. Typically, PhD research in marine biology would include scuba diving to collect specimens, but Owens had sickle cell traits which would make diving dangerous. Instead, she conducted studies on a portion of the Smithsonian’s collection, gathered in the 1800s by the USS Albatross, a deep sea research vessel. She received her PhD in 1984 for her dissertation "Microstructural Changes in the Scleractinian Families Micrabaciidae and Fungiidae and their Taxonomic and Ecologic Implications." Owens went on to identify and name a new genus of coral, Rhombopsammia, and discovered and described three species of button corals.

[briarofthewoods]

For anyone else struggling right now, here's a tiny sweater I knitted

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[2percentsugar]

does anyone else remember being a hapless american child looking at the prices of books on the inside flap and wondering. do we just hate canadians? this book is $8 here and $13 there, that feels..... mean somehow

[countthelions]

Literally haven't taken it off since I finished it. I am so unbelievably pleased!!!! It turned out like a dream 🍓✨ details below:

Pattern: frost lines by andrea mowry

Yarn: mc: Brooklyn tweed (rip) loft // cc: spincycle dyed in the wool, strawbaby colorway

I used US5s and knit a size 5 due to gauge differences, since these yarns are technically fingering weight. It is a very light wearing sweater, weighs absolutely nothing on my shoulders.

I wanted to show off the yarn - and I was afraid of running out of the mc tan bc I can't get more of it - so I did the cuffs in the spincycle, as well as added a very cute behind the neck detail i am in LOVE with.

Otherwise, the only mod is I knit the buttonband thinner, and shifted the buttons to be between stripes rather than at stripes. Thought it looked better.

Overall, so very happy with it. It feels absurdly professional and so put together. Mowry's raglan chart was really fun to use and I kinda want another one XD

[your-neighbor-bear]

*sigh* reblog this post to pour vanilla extract on the person you reblogged it from

[luntfontanne]

holy shit

[notso-darling]

Robin from Teen Titans Go celebrating the ol’ razzle dazzle day

[notso-darling]

I was just writing a message to my son’s doctor and almost signed it “love, Sarah” so that’s how my brain’s doing

[notso-darling]

Sometimes I think about weird phrases that have just become staples in my personal parlance and I’m like most people would have no idea what I’m saying or what this is a reference to. For example: referring to certain types of music as “sad bastard” music from High Fidelity (for sure the movie, I can’t remember if it was in the book also) or saying “take luck” to Matt from a Mitch Hedberg joke about mashing up take care and good luck on accident. I’m sure there are others but I can’t think of them at the moment.

[notso-darling]

This is part of a math worksheet that my first grade kid was assigned. I worked through it with him and thought it was a truly insane way to do math, and then the teacher sent it home again saying it wasn’t the right way to get to the answers and he had to redo it and return it. And the “correct” way to get to the answers was much worse than how I thought it should be. How would you think this should be done based on those instructions?

[notso-darling]

I can’t resist a photo of a flower in the rain