#gowgow

[missgowgow]

I sent my little cousin abroad some books (some old faves I had doubles of, some new kid classics) and she sent back a letter saying that she liked them. unrelatedly, I started pirating a lot of my childhood fave books for my ereader and I’m now mentally going through them to figure out which ones to send her based on her age.

I also need to write a ‘hey kiddo, you’re 12 now, and that means you should learn internet piracy’ guide. ofc I’ll start with project gutenburg and standard ebooks (one of the books I sent her was an abridged copy of Anne of green gables) (I know those aren’t piracy but they’re gateway drugs).

the next obvious step is annas-archive but I can’t actually think of any warnings I’d need to give her? I’ve never actually had fake file problems or anything on annas-archive, is that something I should warn her about? I don’t think a child would care for libgen or the internet archive. thoughts?

[missgowgow]

once again, who does the tumblr algorithm think I am, why am I getting posts tagged ‘just mormon things’ recommended to me ‘based on my likes’. if I could push a button and destroy the concept of mormonism, I would hit it at the speed of light.

[missgowgow]

just got a terf’s post recommended to me ‘based on my likes’, something has gone deeply wrong and I am offended by the insinuation. I need to fix my vibes immediately if ‘detransitioning because if the political environment means you aren’t really a woman’ seems like something I would like.

[missgowgow]

I’m probably going to get a stylus for my kobo mostly for ‘annotating PDFs for work’ reasons (not the point of buying the kobo but if it has the ability I might as well) but also I just downloaded the communist manifesto and a bunch of classics and I think I’ll need to annotate to understand what is going on

[missgowgow]

got food poisoning or maybe a new food intolerance or something while on a work trip. this means I had to tell multiple colleagues the professional equivalent of ‘I frew up’. please give me the strength to return to work later today/tomorrow/ever at all instead of jumping down a well to join the frogs.

[missgowgow]

just realized I’m old enough that it’s not that ironic if someone calls me a milf, I’m not anti aging so much as I’m anti the passage of time. we need to pause while I catch up with the steady march of time.

[missgowgow]

in recent days, I had gotten enough sun that I was using a slightly darker face powder, instead of just my lighter tinted moisturizer. I was in a rush this morning and didn’t want to spend time neatly blending out a slightly too light liquid face product so I used just the powder and the morning sun has revealed that to be a mistake. I look somewhat uncanny, not quite a 00’s self tanner mistake, but uncomfortable. thank god I’ll be in a dim low light worksite today

[missgowgow]

my mum had got me custom orthotics off her insurance like eight years ago but I forgot about them and never used them, I put them in my shoes today and why the fuck did I wait this long wow