inane personal post – Page 3 – A Pretty Taste for Paradox

after some very charming back and forth I asked homesteading girl if she wants to meet in person and now I’m going to be checking my notifications every three seconds until she replies

sleep deprivation plus 3d modeling software: a match made in hell

I’m going to be 26 in four days, which is really making me think about where I am in my life. I’ve still got a lot to work on, but I think I’m both happier and better at being an adult human than I was when I moved out west four years ago.

being a millennial who works in the arts/nonprofit field in Seattle and who grew up with parents who, among other incredibly hippie things, met most of their close friends through the Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts makes it unsettlingly easy to forget not that conservatives exist (who, truly, could forget them right now), but that centrists do

gettin’ a little too honest on my okc profile:

boy do I keep falling down the ‘weird survivalist blog’ rabbit hole, and boy is it strange down there

my time travel bucket list, in no particular order:

Victor Hugo (argue with)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (model for)
Freeman Tilden (learn interpretation from)
Gerald Durrell (catch animals with)
Hiroshi Yoshida (learn printmaking from)
Ernst Haeckel (fangirl at, lbr)
John James Audubon (paint with)
John Muir (go hiking with)
Apsley Cherry-Garrard (ask about Antarctica, offer sympathy to)

‘eat very little then draw for 12 hours straight’ is not a recipe for mental OR physical health but I keep doing it by accident

I just said to the dog “Lucille Low, don’t you dare eat that bumblebee!” and then had to pause to reflect on just how much I sound like I’m talking to a small child when I address my dog