Molly Deschenes
@dchenes.bsky.social
One foot in front of the other. Try not to trip over a cat.
This is the face of a cat who doesn’t understand that I have to get up so I can go cross “order cat food” off the chores list.
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is the face of a cat who doesn’t understand that I have to get up so I can go cross “order cat food” off the chores list.
I don't consider the hour I spent this morning watching a normally anxious cat sleep in my lap, when I could have been vacuuming or grocery shopping, to be wasted time.
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I don't consider the hour I spent this morning watching a normally anxious cat sleep in my lap, when I could have been vacuuming or grocery shopping, to be wasted time.
Random thought: History is written by the winners. But what happens if the winners don't have written language?
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Random thought: History is written by the winners. But what happens if the winners don't have written language?
PSA: Now that you’ve changed the clocks, change the smoke detector batteries. It will keep them from being chirpy little bastards at 3 AM sometime in January.
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
PSA: Now that you’ve changed the clocks, change the smoke detector batteries. It will keep them from being chirpy little bastards at 3 AM sometime in January.
If Apple Maps were sentient, it would probably be frustrated with me. I keep telling it I want to go somewhere and then changing my mind half a mile later and going somewhere else.
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If Apple Maps were sentient, it would probably be frustrated with me. I keep telling it I want to go somewhere and then changing my mind half a mile later and going somewhere else.
The Borough Market may be a tourist trap and a madhouse, but I’m a tourist and I’m on vacation, so I enjoyed it. And I got lunch and dinner and beer.
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Borough Market may be a tourist trap and a madhouse, but I’m a tourist and I’m on vacation, so I enjoyed it. And I got lunch and dinner and beer.
I’ve spent more money on hotels this month than I ever have in my life. But at least I can get reimbursed for the last one snd the next two are for fun.
October 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I’ve spent more money on hotels this month than I ever have in my life. But at least I can get reimbursed for the last one snd the next two are for fun.
Given a nor'easter and a site visit bearing down on me simultaneously, I'm making vegetable soup with garlic and herb sausage meatballs. I won't be home between Monday night and Thursday afternoon, and soup waiting for me when I get home will be a good thing.
October 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Given a nor'easter and a site visit bearing down on me simultaneously, I'm making vegetable soup with garlic and herb sausage meatballs. I won't be home between Monday night and Thursday afternoon, and soup waiting for me when I get home will be a good thing.
When the price for a week and a half of cat sitting is “Vacuum three stories of carpeted stairs,” you go and get the vacuum cleaner, and an extension cord, and subsequently a workout.
October 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
When the price for a week and a half of cat sitting is “Vacuum three stories of carpeted stairs,” you go and get the vacuum cleaner, and an extension cord, and subsequently a workout.
I decided to go fiind out if wak-in Covid shots at CVS are really a thing. They are, so I did. Now I can probably not get Covid on transatlantic flights next month.
September 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I decided to go fiind out if wak-in Covid shots at CVS are really a thing. They are, so I did. Now I can probably not get Covid on transatlantic flights next month.
For some reason, the UPS tracking site has decided I'm in Spain, and is tracking my cat food between Pennsylvania and Boston in Spanish. For some reason, CBS has decided that my mother will only get NFL football games in Spanish. Weirdness.
September 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
For some reason, the UPS tracking site has decided I'm in Spain, and is tracking my cat food between Pennsylvania and Boston in Spanish. For some reason, CBS has decided that my mother will only get NFL football games in Spanish. Weirdness.
It’s after 9:00 AM on Sept 1 in Brighton and i’ve only heard three moving trucks on the street.
September 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It’s after 9:00 AM on Sept 1 in Brighton and i’ve only heard three moving trucks on the street.
Found in the dictionary undrer “skeptical.”
August 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Found in the dictionary undrer “skeptical.”
Inky has figured out how to be helpful.
August 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Inky has figured out how to be helpful.
In 2017, for our last accreditation, we submitted something like 5400 pages of documents. Today, for our 2025 accreditation, we submitted 6500 pages. I don't know whether this is getting ridiculous or whether it already got there.
August 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In 2017, for our last accreditation, we submitted something like 5400 pages of documents. Today, for our 2025 accreditation, we submitted 6500 pages. I don't know whether this is getting ridiculous or whether it already got there.
I seem to have traded being unable to spell in Russian for being unable to spell in Welsh.
July 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I seem to have traded being unable to spell in Russian for being unable to spell in Welsh.
Lily still wants whipped cream. At least she didn’t get it in her ear (although she tried).
July 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Lily still wants whipped cream. At least she didn’t get it in her ear (although she tried).
There are worse ways to spend a rainy birthday.
July 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
There are worse ways to spend a rainy birthday.
I think my theory has been confirmed: July is too early for whale watching. We saw exactly one whale this morning, but at least we saw one.
July 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I think my theory has been confirmed: July is too early for whale watching. We saw exactly one whale this morning, but at least we saw one.
My cats amuse me. Duck is sorta all right if there's nothing else, but if there's chicken, they're both glued to me until there's no more chicken.
July 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My cats amuse me. Duck is sorta all right if there's nothing else, but if there's chicken, they're both glued to me until there's no more chicken.
Today is Lily’s 19th birthday. Female orange and white cats with one orange toe live forever.
June 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today is Lily’s 19th birthday. Female orange and white cats with one orange toe live forever.
I actually like hot. But over 90 and no breeze is HOT, even for me.
June 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I actually like hot. But over 90 and no breeze is HOT, even for me.
Dad would probably be amused at the issues I'm having with Hindi word order, and he'd definitely have been amused at my learning to say "my hedgehog wants a glass of water" in Russian. I'm coming across fewer things that hurt because I can't tell him that, but that's one of them.
June 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Dad would probably be amused at the issues I'm having with Hindi word order, and he'd definitely have been amused at my learning to say "my hedgehog wants a glass of water" in Russian. I'm coming across fewer things that hurt because I can't tell him that, but that's one of them.