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near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 3h

Fantasizing in detail how I will order pork pan bao, walk up the street to pick them up, stop at the combini on the way home for a big bottle of Sapporo and eat on my couch before sundown

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 14h

Marvelling at some of these clothes from when I was in my eccentric minor executive era. lots of Asian indie slow fashion labels and big silhouette dresses. pleated pants like hakama? A cool shapeless windbreaker. A dress that could be elementary art teacher or japanese abstract sculptor uniform

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near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 16h

How many Italian suede block heels do a bitch need

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 16h

TSA scanning my bag like how many hammers do a bitch need

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near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 16h

Engaging in an extreme act of tetris (trying to cram my leather tools and a lot of leather and a lot of clothes from before I got sick into two suitcases)

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near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 17h

Thinking with fondness on how the gentleman I fancy will shift into a sort of English-German creole when deep in thought

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 22h

I acquired all of these things except the hug then figured out my issue in like 20 min of focused debugging

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 1d

Having a toddler level meltdown because I can't figure something out and need ice cream, a hug, and to wash my face and braid my unwashed hair so I can't feel it touching me (clearly pms)

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near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 1d

counting down the hours until I am back home in California

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near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 1d

Splurged on full-weekend passes to an electronic festival over Halloween weekend and am now obsessing over costumes/clubwear

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 3d

Coding while waiting for my hair to dry enough to braid before bed

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near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 4d

Taking a break from the AI mines to read forum threads by people who use the word 'demonolatry' in complete sincerity talking about how the AI bubble is about to implode

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 4d

I tried it once with someone I thought quite highly of and it went so poorly. Close connections have to be maintained or you become strangers. No amount of talking will repair a lack of genuine connection

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 4d

I am at the age where everyone I knew in my early 20s who got married and had kids are now divorced and coming out and occasionally I think about catching up with them and trying to explain what happened with me and I break out in chills. Better to let some things stay dead

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near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 4d

Let's be real I don't need much of a reason to evacuate this shitty state with haste

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 4d

Gentleman I fancy will be in SF next week and I still have not got my flight home. Embarrassing to consider how much I have dropped on flights this year to make our date nights

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near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 4d

Three years after my freak recovery from a weird disease that severely limited my body's wound healing capabilities I am happy to report my wound responses are so healthy now! My mother's shitty fucking cat needs to be launched into the sun though

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 6d

I am not an envious person by nature but occasionally I remember not everyone suffers from the dumbest self inflicted problem possible (overthinking into non functionality) and in that moment I understand it

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 7d

Knowing more than a little bit about something and then being online when your something becomes that week's thing with a million new self proclaimed experts is fucking hell

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 8d

Told my parents I was moving to the island by February and they lodged only the weakest attempt at convincing me otherwise

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 8d

Visiting my parents in one of the worst states in the union and the Republican pre-midterm ads exhibit some of the most insane and egregious bigotry I have ever seen

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 10d

Mentally empty in my hotel room after finishing my last conference talk and waiting to get ready for exec dinner and schmooze. No thoughts just listening to the rain outside

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 13d

drinking a weird blue beverage and listening to the best song of 2013 (Soviet Soviet's Ecstasy)

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 14d

the combination of too much work and having to spend a lot of time with my mother next week is making me moody although the fact that I also hate the stupid discourse here is just reinforcing that I do not have the soul of a poster and all I have this account for is complaining. not helping

near vector space @nearvectorspace.bsky.social · 15d

I find watching the flocks of crows and gulls do their territorial displays over my little urban valley view very soothing