Incredible that every year it feels so convincingly realistic that I’ll read all of the articles I’ve bookmarked in the last 12 months in the days between Christmas and NY.

“Nobody knows what to do with this leftover week, awkwardly stuck to the bottom of the year. I call it “Dead Week,” a time when nothing counts, and when nothing is quite real.” -@helfitzgerald

Slugs like cardio more than I do

Out/In for 2023

I can’t bear to look but I assume that someone on LinkedIn has already published a post titled something like ‘11 Lessons About Persistence From the Vote for House Speaker’?

Is there a more high stakes, low reward habit than using ‘NP’ in text replies to mean ‘No problem’? At least once a month I accidentally respond to someone considerately telling me that they’re running a bit late to our meeting with ‘𝗡𝗢’

“Nurses saw a nominal wage increase of just eight per cent between 2019 and 2022, even as demand exploded, and inflation shot up by 12.1 per cent.” This during a period when they were being lauded as heroes, dealing with impossibly difficult working conditions. Disgraceful.

“The gap between wage growth and labour demand was even greater among community services workers and early childhood educators. Governments have promised to create 250,000 new child-care spaces by March, 2026, but who will staff these programs?” ***internal screaming***

We need a total and complete shutdown of all new work terminology until we can figure out what is going on

My brain, every time I need it to do APA citations

Avalanche danger rating on Post-it Mountain (aka my desk) has been raised to 5 - Extreme. Avoid high risk terrain and seek shelter.

A very happy “pretend I can empathize with the sadness of your sports team losing” season, to all who celebrate.

Preparing to deliver a Colloquium by internally debating which ‘u’ is more superfluous…