Ronnie Chen

someone should invent an outdoor SAD lamp that is on for 15 hours a day

a mannequin wearing a sun garment with long sleeves and a hood with a zip that goes up just under the eyes. the mannequin is wearing sunglasses. only a thin strip of forehead is exposed but shielded by the brim of the hat.

when I say I'm going to soak up the sun, this is what I mean

the difference between "i should go for a run (shamey)" and "i should go for a run (longing)"

not sure if it's the return of the sun or the fact that I'm back to taking my multivitamin consistently but holy crap it's nice to wake up and have energy to do things again without having to *work* so hard for it

!!

He had actually split away from his entourage to try to take me down. Man was on a mission.

I tell the story, no one believes me at first but then other people have it happen too. Someone finally asked him about it at the end of his public lecture and he replied that he gets one point for every undergrad he takes down and 5 points for grad students.

I'm walking across campus and see him coming from the other way. Obviously I cede the path to him and watch him start to off-road in his wheelchair to continue to come at me.
I dodge the other way and he proceeds to intercept. I do a desperate leap to the side as the gap closes and he rolls past me

Stephen Hawking tried to run me over with his wheelchair

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:((

my "don't be mad" post is making a lot of people mad at me in a way that is expressly prohibited by the post

i *said* "don't be mad"!!!!

don't be mad but I checked off seven things on my not-urgent and not-important todo list at the expense of eating lunch

not even 10am and i have already committed my second act of pettiness, great way to start the day off right

Just a giant numpad, if you think about it

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a picture of a cookbook showing a lobster bolognese where the capellini is wrapped into a roll with sauce and foam resting on top

I spent years honing my ability to make this exact shape

just bought a spiralizer so I can throw a potato party

Trust a toddler to remind you that every bad day can get worse with the addition of a little vomit

A deep orange sunset sky with a bright slash of sun breaking through the clouds. A stone fortification with rounded towers juts out into the water and is surrounded at the bottom by scaffolding.

light is so good right now

a different angle showing a gargoyle looking down over the walking path of the interior courtyard

arches redux

stone arches and decorated columns of a Gothic monastery corridor

arches

*caveat that I can only say derogatory things about your mother in Spanish

apologizing in advance to speakers of the other Romance languages, it appears that no matter how the conversation starts, within about 5 minutes max I will be responding with poorly conjugated French

6 flights in 9 days is just too many

already bracing myself for what news will happen in the interim

boarding a trans-Atlantic flight with no wi-fi, I'm going to be so good at morse code again by the time I land

so...you're saying I won't do any work on the flight back either?

someone with a time machine, please tell past-ronnie that no matter how long the flight, i was never, ever, ever going to "work on the plane"