Couldn't remember a list of names for a riddle in Dungeons & Dragons in college and in an improv-ed list of plausible names I threw in Bumby at the end to make my friends laugh. They did laugh and then the name was forever associated with me and was later dubbed the name of a clownsona my best friend assigned to me as a joke. But then I sort of imprinted on this Bumby character as a symbol of sweetness in an absurd world and got them tattooed on me.
Apr 4, 2024
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Mar 28, 2024
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My parents started calling me Buggie because I had big buggy eyes as a baby apparently 😭
It morphed into buggie-boo, buggie-boodle, and plain old bug throughout the years.
My dad stopped calling me that when my parents divorced (I was a teen). My mom persists despite my best efforts when I was in college. I’ve given up and think it’s cute. I am well into my thirties lol.
Mar 27, 2024
some of these are very incoherent but:
Mr. B
Mr. Buddy
Mister
Buzz
Buzzy
Fuzzy Buddy
Fuzzy Buzzy
Mean Mug
Mean Muggy
Muggy
Mr. Muggy
Me Muggy
Mug
Fat Buddy
Little Fat Buddy
Little Buddy
honestly there's more that have came and went since we've had him but these are the active ones
Feb 14, 2025
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I’m sick of feeling powerless so my new coping strategy is to not let a stupid system bully me into quiet despair. I’m learning how to use my state’s General Assembly’s online bill tracker and I’m subscribing to email updates for the agendas and the public hearings of the legislative committees I’m most concerned about. I’m memorizing all my legislators‘ names and emailing and calling regularly.
Also: Check to see if your state’s Legislative Library has Libguides that explain in layman’s terms what bills are passing in your state and other educational/legislative resources you have freely available to you!!!
Nov 20, 2024
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You will make about 60k if you're lucky unless you become a manager, and you will have 35k of debt or more from grad school (online grad school is cheaper sometimes and no one cares where you get the degree anyways). And sometimes you work for a university (which is essentially a corporation) or the government. But in general everyone in your field will believe in a code of ethics that raises the dignity of humanity above the mire of misinformation and censorship. And you help empower people with the information literacy to move through the world as confident capable individuals/professionals/scholars. Community college libraries are my favorite environment I've worked in so far because the students are cool, driven, and diverse in age and background. Public libraries also do amazing social work in 2025 to provide services to their communities like harm reduction, networks of resources for unhoused people, language teaching, professional development, basic technology training, literally just being a third space, I could go on forever. It definitely is a career that exists because of neoliberalism I'm not going to lie, like American public libraries only exist because robber barons in the 1900s donated a mind boggling amount of grants to towns across the country to build them (not sure about other countries' history with this to be fair). All that being said I decided I wanted to be a librarian when I was 16 and I've been committed to that path for 11 years with no regret.
To add a personal note to this rec and emphasize how meaningful this work really is, I'm going to indulge in a story because I could genuinely cry thinking about all the kind, interesting people I've met who have chosen to be vulnerable with me about their needs and goals. A couple years ago I helped an older man for multiple hours to remember his email login so he could get a copy of his birth certificate from his son-in-law who had emailed a scan of the physical copy which was in another country. The stakes were incredibly high and the task seemed virtually impossible because we didn't even have an email address to start. He was having trouble reaching his son-in-law to ask for help because of the time difference, and he needed the scan ASAP. We were together for so long I learned a lot about him. He talked to me about Islam and Christianity and angels. And then we got it! It's probably one of the defining moments of my career and to me is one of the most impactful things I've ever done.
So there's my job rec lol!
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I’m up in my bank account every week writing every transaction out in a spreadsheet and I’ve never been better with money in my whole life. Also helped me notice asap when a whole mess of fraudulent transactions slipped in while I was occupied moving and otherwise wouldn’t have seen them for a while. It’s absolutely more effective than a Mint budget tracker because you have to confront EVERY purchase and contemplate what actually has value to you.
Jan 6, 2025