Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Proper preparation prevents [checks notes] starving to death 030
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I canNOT believe I have to drive to Wellington and back in one day AGAIN this WEEK, TWICE, TWICE IN ONE WEEK 530
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026['Hamilton' "He looked at me like I was stupid" voice] You think I'm joking. I'm not joking 030
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There's these two bridges in Labasa to get across the river from my hotel to the hospital, one a road bridge with sidewalks on either side and one a very simple parallel train bridge 100
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026am now a full on breakfast crackers devotee. could live on these. is this lembas bread (no obviously) 230
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My Fijian colleague eats breakfast crackers and we had a whole conservation about them -- I'd seen them at the grocery store but didn't know if they were nice or horrible -- so she got me some 100
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'm going to quit my very lucrative and prestigious job, learn 5 more languages and become a stormchaser 030
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026C and I do the metazooa together as part of our slate of puzzles and we alternate who picks the starting animal. The ideal is of course to get it on the first guess and so we each have "our" picks -- mine was flea, his grey parrot. 110
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026People need tutelage on what to choose for their contact photos for stuff like whatsapp man 100
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Just had a mindfuck of a moment where some Aussies who were here last year and are back were saying they didn't know any Fijian just 'hello' and 'thanks', and I said, and 'doctor' right and they were like, what's that mean? ...it's whatever everyone calls you? they say it to get your attention? 100
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026international cat news (it is raining lightly so this cat may simply be opportunistically dry) 010
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Asked the surgeons -- there are three of them -- how best to get to a resort town 2 hours away by road and got 3 different recommendations 110
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The only downside of the insane diversity and quality of cars in use is how extremely easy it is to be hit by a car 120
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I saw many nice things today but one of them was a cat far too beautiful and clean to be living in the middle of the forest on a tropical island 050
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Man last night at the hotel in Nadi it was a whole show and music Friday night until late and now in Labasa there's a festival starting and there is super loud microphone talking and cheering starting up I know I'm here to work but how small of a place do I have to go to for it to be quiet 120
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Yesterday on the airplane I sat next to a lady who likes cheese but not the mildly flavored cheeses that "don't taste like anything" -- "like with Brie. It's like, what's the point? [shrug]" 040
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Got up at 3:45am to drive to the airport (it's not near) and I am just. Living on a prayer 430
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026As many Nero Wolfe books as fit into 56 episodes. The filler episodes can be novellas. I'm doing the baseball players poisoning one, AND the one where Archie finds a dead body at a shitty house party and then leaves it there pretends he didn't see it 120
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I have 3 days off before I have to fly overseas to work for 2 weeks. By 4pm day one I am clearly getting sick :( 110
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Intimidation is a relational matter and cannot be assessed without its societal and cultural context 130
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026One of the examiners' "List of very minor emendations"is "you used this term a few times which is discordant with your point in section 2.1.3" and the other's is "reformat your citations slightly in a way that requires you to carefully reread the entire text" 110
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Went to a charity event with live auction last night and while the event was lovely everyone was so fucking cheap like what the hell are you doing? You're not trying to get a bargain you dinguses you are SUPPOSED to give them money for this 130
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026...I don't think anyone in @kjcharleswriter.com' excellent How to Fake It in Society has a job, exactly. I guess I make paints? I am a professional grade liar? Is that a job? That's kind of job. Con man is a job 110
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Well, the time that my friend Kris and I went to see The Place Beyond the Pines without seeing any trailers or having any other info. Or the time we went to see The World's End without seeing any trailers or having any other info 221
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Unfuckingbelievable quote from Travis Barker about his influences as a drummer: "the biggest one was to skate in my neighborhood at the older kids' skate ramp, is they would kind of say like, the only way you can come skate our ramp is if you learn 'And Justice For All' by Metallica front to back" 230
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Jungle have released a new music video and Will West is not in it right away and the delay -> fake-out -> true introduction is just PERFECTLY done. Where is he, is he next no is he next no oh this has gotta be him right? Not not him! Okay is -- oh my god there he is of COURSE. Of course. 010
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Big time hijinks: flight canceled 2 hr before departure, flight auto rebooked tomorrow morning, manually rerebooked today, can't check in online, help desk can't check me in, arrive to airport 2 min before check-in closes, check in, check bag, go to gate 220
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Tonight we're going to a fancy restaurant called Tītī but they don't serve tītī 🍗 110
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The only circumstance in which I agree with the Sherlock Holmes "brain gets too full if you learn useless stuff" approach is having the audio on for reel and tiktoks and shit 110
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Traveling with C recently means I check that the life jacket is actually under the seat real quick 010
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I have to go to Dunedin (south, cold) and I DO NOT WANT TO 240
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I've assembled it all via calendar and this sucks. I miss my husband in advance. I want to go home (am presently at home) 020
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I took this young woman's thyroid out on Thursday to cure her autoimmune disease and she is SO excited to eat seafood. She was like "...what kind of diet. Should I -- do I have to follow a diet afterward?" Me: "Go fuckin nuts" Her: :D 💭💭💭 :O 🐟 :] :O 🐟 :] :O 🐟 :] 4110
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Anyone who has seen me make a butter pie crust (incandescently furious entire time) should see me make a lard pie crust (calm, joyful, pure comfort) 050
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Today we ran into someone who lived down the lane from us 6 years ago, she said, "oh I was just talking about you -- we have some apples* and I was saying the woman who lived there used to make the BEST apple pie" me: :DDDDD *they have apple trees; they would give me the apples, I would make pies 040
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Stopped to thin out the long ignored lettuce like a responsible gardener. Have left it long enough that it's a little salad 020
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I have just booked yet more of my travel -- I think I have booked nearly all of my travel for the rest of this year -- and it is just too much 130
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026@akaharriet.bsky.social have you heard High Hopes 3000 yet? I have been composing a The Nice Guys video to this thing in my brain since the first time I heard it, lyrics on point but also those key bound-to-fail vibes www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgE1...youtube.comHigh Hopes 3000YouTube video by ROLE MODEL - Topic 000
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026For those who have hair and do travel: how particular are you about your hair products while traveling?? 💈 I always bring my own hair products with me 🧴 I'll use what's there within reason (friend's house, nice hotel) 🧼 I'll wash my hair with anything (bar soap, body wash) 1200
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I have once again arranged the kind of vacation where I have to get up early in the morning Monday through Friday and Christ I just never want to do it. I hate getting of bed and I always have 210
Clare @claredactyl.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Watching rugby league on the outdoor TV at the restaurant next to some British couple who've got a mildly obnoxious vibe to their running commentary 100
