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2 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
I made a grave, grave mistake.
I bought something labeled "Chinese tea" from the hippie grocery store. That's the first mistake. The second mistake was having said tea at around 5. PM yesterday.

I. Never. Went. To. Asleep.
As in, I have been awake since the morning of New Year's Day. In fact, I may never sleep again.
What is even more wild is that I am not tired *or* wired. I'm just...awake. Forever.
I just keep saying to myself, "This is exactly what happened to Elvis."

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As the old folks would say, worth exactly what you’re paying for it.
LLC Twitter fascinates me to no end.
It’s just Lower Ed for non-institutional credentials. Created by basically the same macro conditions and policy failures. Racialized slightly different but in the same direction.
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31 Dec 20
This #2020 thread sponsored by these Manhattans (catered and masked, please be peace)
(It isn’t 6pm and I am already drunk as a skunk and this is planned to go for hours. You bout to get these tweets.)
I planned for months to be able to have a cocktail tonight. I feel like Batman for pulling it off.
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Hi. I am going to describe something and ask you if there is a word or term for that, okay? This is a warning just in case you’re already drinking.
You know how a book blurb or theater ad or sodium/artist intro has blurbs from their reviews? Is there a term d’art for cherry-picking words from reviews out of context?
Example: “his lyrics were so banal they surreptitiously crossed into interesting, if only because one couldn’t guess what might be left to say” becomes “NYT calls Blue Berry’s latest work INTERESTING!”
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30 Dec 20
Okay Southerners & etiquette experts, I’ve got one for you. A vendor (I’m the client) sent me a corporate Christmas gift. Nice. Thank you. Anyway, they have since emailed me to confirm that I got it. The southerner in me feels like that’s shade for not sending a thank you card.
I think that, because as you likely know, when someone in or from the U.S. south “follows up” about their gift IT IS SHADE ON YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, ESPECIALLY THE MOTHER WHO FAILED TO RAISE YOU.
So, is this shade?

Was I supposed to send a thank you card for a corporate gift?

Is this shade?
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There’s a new grand dame flick on HBO max and no one told me. I love old lady movies.
Yes, please. Image
We don’t celebrate enough how Candice Bergen got thick.
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This seems accurate.
I assume I will teach in person in fall semester and will likely be on at least one of two vaccine shots by then. Maybe flying by April 2022. Live events outside by summer 2022. Indoor events, maybe winter 2022. Maybe.
Based on this thread, I started asking my colleagues and read some of the science flying around and that’s where I am
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