Call me Ishy (she/they/uwu). I am a senior software engineer && an MFA candidate in fiction at one of those snooty writing programs everyone rolls their...
LPT: tired of every conversation devolving into whether AI bad or AI good? Want to get out of the inevitable conversation about the inevitability of AI? Pop a laxative (I recommend chocolate) or self-insert a cheap CVS enema: no one will talk to you if you're blowing ass all over the kitchen floor. In all seriousness, it's not just tech where I have these conversations. Sister #2 was hosting a…
The past two years, I've made it a point to not respond to friend texts immediately unless there's an impetus to. I mean, if it's a time sensitive ask or if someone is, like, dying 1 , I'll respond immediately. But, for the most part, I simply read the preview and let it sit in my notifications. People have expected a slow response from me. But most everyone has mentioned they like that I take a…
The 3 "jobs" being my 1) full-time SWE job, 2) teaching in my MFA for tuition remission & paltry stipend, and 3) unpaid MFA shit that I supposedly love doing, which involves going to class and workshopping and writing my dumb thesis. It is so much work. SO MCUH FCKUNG WROK!!! These days, I do not do anything but eat, shit, work, and work-sleep. But, like, I did this to myself. It's a choice. It's…