Elise 🐭

i saw this and unprompted my mind provided the opening chord, extremely (internally) loudly

that would be such a fun class to teach or take!!

Your wish is our command. 🪄 Aquarium of the Pacific 🐋

Does Parker's rendition of Van Gogh's Irises get your seal(ion) of approval?

A group is working with a forklift and ropes under palm trees. The sky is clear with sun rays shining through. Blue fabric shades are visible in the background.

Two people on a boat carefully lift a sea turtle from a gray bin. The ocean is visible in the background.

Two people are under a shade canopy in a plant nursery, placing plants into blue containers. They are smiling and wearing hats and navy blue shirts. Various potted plants are visible in the background.

A person wearing blue gloves is interacting with a sea lion at an outdoor environment. Rocks and other indistinct figures are in the background.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to the incredible women of the Aquarium of the Pacific! Your contributions are essential to our mission and are reflected in every facet of the Aquarium, from education and conservation to research and guest services. Thank you for all you do!

if they say any other word than ‘pizzle’ they might lose the right to call the product ‘wholesome’ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

i love it!

i’m so so sorry 💔❤️

i’m so glad you’re okay! but yeah that does seem like a punishment 😡

she’s so brave!

❤️ sending metaphorical ice packs for the psychological burden! (just seems like that might help, metaphorically)

the bus driver saw me running and waited!! that hasn’t happened on this line (for me) in so many years that i almost didn’t bother! how refreshing

Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness. I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

why is my library suggesting i might like to borrow a 22-hour long audiobook of the malleus maleficarum

One was a marine corps radio operator, then a rocket scientist
The other was a family practice doctor

i’m so sorry that happened. the first time i ever saw my doctor, ~4 years ago, she told me about glp-1s and said i could try one (after i told them i declined to be weighed). i asked her what would happen when i stopped taking it & she looked at me like she had never ever considered that question.

A great way to get around this is

🐠 Fishy

🐠🐠🐠 Fishies

🐠🐡🐟 Fishies

ooh like positive and negative images of handprints!

Text of poem - Pact. This is my child; that is yours. Let peace be between them when they grow up. They are far off now; let it not be through war they are brought near. Their languages are different. Let them both learn it is peace in the hand is the translation of peace in the mind.

Pact - RS Thomas

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus...

as long as the hospital isn’t obliged to only work 9-5! (although on how great would it be if they actually prioritized safe staffing and non-overworked healthcare employees?)

cheesy caramel popcorn

happy birthday! we’re going to the farmers market, of course :)

bubble wrap

and! the facilities/maintenance person i checked with has no record of a work order for it?? so i also have no one to complain to

more than a few students are out with various respiratory viruses, there is a test today so more people than usual will be in this room and sometime between tuesday and now, someone has SCREWED ALL THE WINDOWS SHUT

💜💜💜

those look so yummy

The Men In The Turnip Field: an old Somerset story collected in Kevin Crossley-Holland's Folk Tales Of The British Isles.

The best one page ghost story ever put to paper.

oh kiddo 💜 it’s good to be tender but it hurts

sanding dremel?? so cool!!