every day I'm learning

[sciatrix]

....today, the learning experience is that coordinating the shipping of twenty-odd singing mice from New York to Texas is a mind-bogglingly complex endeavor, and I am just barely coming out on top of the bureaucracy. But! But! There will be mice I can use for this experiment, ideally by my committee meeting and at least so that I can do a kickass talk for Evolution this year. I'm applying for the SSE Grad Council this year, although the deadline is today--gotta make sure I set some time aside today to do that in amid the flurry of emails.

Also, I'm very carefully dipping my toes into The Body Keeps the Score and gritting my teeth the entire way--more because conceptualizing my life as traumatic in any way feels bad and wrong and self-indulgent and terrifying than because I think that the book itself is problematic. (I'm listening to the text-to-speak function on my phone, which is comforting and a little less scary than reading it for reasons I have no idea how to articulate.)

I'm low on Diamine Meadow right now (review) in my TWSBI stub pen, and I'm really sad about it. I think I need to commit and buy myself a proper bottle of it--this is just the tail end of the 2mL sample I got for my birthday last year.

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[kore]

........singing mice?

conceptualizing my life as traumatic in any way feels bad and wrong and self-indulgent and terrifying than because I think that the book itself is problematic

Yeah, I hear you there. It takes me ages to read books like that.

[sciatrix]

I work on them! They're the best study organism anywhere except when they're driving me up the wall because we know so little about them. Little brown mice--actually, "brown mouse" is the other common name, which is ridiculous because they sing and in a register humans can hear, at that! They're insectivorous and they live in Central America and I love them.

I keep sidling up to the concept and then sidling uncomfortably away. Augh.

[kore]

They sound adorable!

....yeah, I had one of those episodes where reading about the possible effects of trauma was kinda triggering. FUN.

[jesse_the_k]

*offers paw to hold while reading van der Kolk*

/disappears down a rabbit hole of ink reviews.

[sciatrix]

That blog is very very dangerous, isn't it?