Its Really Hard To Measure Moment Arms In Emu Feet Because Their Footwrists Have Cartilaginous Extrusions

its really hard to measure moment arms in emu feet because their footwrists have cartilaginous extrusions that might work like kneecaps e: more like bicycle chain tensioners

okay i may have made a tactical error 

i found out one of grandmother's least-racist friends was also coming so i chose to not be a shut-in 

my grandmother spun it as me going only because she was and she has become 

handsy

a dilemma

have breakfast with grandmother BUT her racist white friends will have Opinions™ -OR- stay in my room for a sixth consecutive day, eating terrible pickles and tweaking Windows 10

One of the many untrue beliefs I hold about the Silmarillion (which I haven’t read) is that it’s an early fan translation of Disgaea by a group called “Jar Token” which took a lot of liberties with the original text.

went to jot a note and got pretty far in before I realized I was typing it into the unlock screen. I’d actually be okay with that as the security system; anyone who punches in an anecdote about ireland is alright to use my phone

yeah! i wish i had had more than thirty seconds to summarize it but the presentation schedule was crazy fast. the whole study was really interesting methodologically! see, there was a suspicion that the increased sex hormones during breeding season was adding muscle mass to compensate for the trains, but since the peacocks were on loan they were not able to do the more traditional dissective examination to compare. so in order to measure the muscle response and efficiency, they put cute little weighted backpacks on the peacocks and did respirometry stuff :) i wish i could have gotten pictures but i was already crashing the conference and i did not want to draw undue attention to myself, especially since i did get spotted by somebody who knew the person whose badge i was using. Hopefully soon i’ll be able to legitimately attend this sort of thing!

peacocks are more efficient and better at moving when they have a full train as compared to without. turns out this may be because they get swole af during breeding season to compensate

home safe, my hair and emergency cute outfit reek of cigarettes and now i have a bunch of birds to write about and ugh i should have just eaten the “zesty” pickles

a dilemma

have breakfast with grandmother BUT her racist white friends will have Opinions™ -OR- stay in my room for a sixth consecutive day, eating terrible pickles and tweaking Windows 10