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wanderingresident.bsky.social
@wanderingresident.bsky.social
She/her • Fresh coaster on the West Coast • Cat mom • Knitter • Never not reading • BTS ARMY • 🏳️‍🌈
San Diego #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Today’s Small Joy: more orchid blooms!
March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Small Joy: one of my orchid’s buds has bloomed!
February 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
(Not so) Small Joy: seeing Wicked onstage for the first time last night, thanks to a lucky and generous friend who won the lottery and offered her second ticket!
February 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Small Joy (from yesterday): a hike with an amazing view, and an unexpected meeting with an old friend!
February 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Small Joy: a coworker’s choice of Teams ID
February 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Small Joy: Epik High’s mongsang lofi playlist, on repeat on a rainy morning.
February 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Small Joy: these mitts were one of the very first things I made successfully! The yarn is Brown Sheep, and I remember feeling amazed that the wool had come from a place I’d traveled through before, and I’d now used it to make something of my own.
February 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Small Joy: discovering that the usually absolutely freezing training room is a reasonable temperature today!
February 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Small Joy: the *gorgeous* cover of my most recent read, which was also a gripping, vivid, and fascinating story set in a world that jumped off the page.
February 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Small Joy: drinking coffee from a mug my friends gave me before I moved, reminded of the sunshine across my Duluth kitchen table and the laughter whenever we hung out
February 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
(Not So) Small Joy: being able to make socks that exactly fit your feet!
Pattern: the ever reliable Rose City Rollers by Mara Bryner
Yarn: oh boy, it’s from the deep stash and has no label. Queensland Collection…maybe Adelaide or Fiji? (Tell me if you know!)
February 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Small Joy: wearing the California poppy earrings I made from a keychain last year
February 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Small Joy: turning the heel on a sock never feels less like magic and physics combined
February 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Small Joy: unearthing a scarf my dad gave me *years* ago which offers golden moons and stars on one side and silver ones on the other 🌘🌠
February 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Small Joy: cat naps
February 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Small Joy: roses on campus, after observing student coaches, an activity which always brings me hope
February 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Today’s Small Joy: my current read! Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee is giving me the familiar-but-not setting and the vivid sense of immersion in the story’s world that I’m always looking for.
January 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Today’s Small Joy: admiring the cables (and appreciating the warmth in my freezing office!) of my Blue Wave Mitts (pattern is Thea Coleman, yarn is Manos del Uruguay)
January 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A friend and I have been texting pictures back and forth with the caption “Small Joy” and I feel like the levels of public doom make it a good idea to spread them around. So, here you go: Small Joy, magnolia tree in the morning edition
January 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Reposted
Every anti-trans-care argument falls apart when you ask why it doesn't apply to any other medical decision
this is an argument for banning both all plastic surgery and knee replacements
Kavanaugh obsessed over trans people "regretting" their decision to transition and that being a state interest.

Setting aside the fact that the rate of "regret" is very low, it's not the state's job to protect people from regret.

This is an argument for the ultimate nanny-state.
December 4, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is on cheap! Gentleman botanist falls for handsome smuggler on remote Kentish marsh, with skulduggery and shenanigans aplenty.

books2read.com/u/mZEa7p
#romancelandia
December 2, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Before darkness falls with a thud, we’ve been having some lovely days and dramatic skies
November 26, 2024 at 11:59 PM
It’s really wild to me that the amount of stress-knitting I’ve done this year has resulted in this being the 10th pair of socks I’ve knitted for myself. (I…do not see this changing, given the amount of existential stress going around)
November 21, 2024 at 6:25 PM