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Neuroscientist: Aging, Alzheimer’s & Related Dementias, Parkinson’s Stella’s mom and professional photographer 🐶 Scuba diver 🤿 Views: mine 🧿 🔵
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Going into Friday at 34 six months into 2025 be like:

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Timehop gives me the sads today. Would much rather be diving in Key Largo than here *gestures widely at everything*

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The tick situation in Maryland is so out of control that I’m about 0.2 seconds away from adopting a possum. We pulled maybe 3-4 off of Stella all of last year. This year? There’s at least one every fucking walk and that’s after spraying/wiping her down with dog-safe repellant.

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😭

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When Stella senses I’m stressed, she’ll sit down and just lean her whole body in to me. ❤️

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Stella just spent the last hour snoozing on top of me with her elbow jammed in my diaphragm. Best hour ever. Dogs are the best.

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How’s it going? Well, I just chased my anxiety and depression meds + extra strength Tylenol down with a Celsius. Pretty great, I guess?

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At 65lbs, I present to you the best, heaviest, and most expensive weighted blanket I’ve got ❤️

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Whyyyyyyyyy does my dog’s illicit substance of choice have to be goose poop?! 😭 Like damn, I know I raised her to be classier.

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This lil guy was maybe the size of my thumb nail

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Grandfather passed away at the young age of 95 this past Wednesday morning. Not how I hoped my next trip “back home” would be but I hope he’s up there somewhere smoking his pipe, drinking a pint and having some great craic. ❤️

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It’s been awhile, but today I just got to sit and be a sponge soaking up awesome science. I didn’t realize how much I needed that.

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Seeing her happy gives me life 🩷

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Saw this lil guy on our walk yesterday and had no idea what it was. Eastern eyed click beatle.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Stick is life. -Stella

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

😍

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Me trying to do literally anything in the last week while cycling through 25 different emotions, decade-old trauma, and 5 personalities in repeat 56 minute loops. 🔊

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The face of a girl who still doesn’t understand that the consequence of rolling in the mud is a bath later (during which she looks like the star of an ASPCA commercial)

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Sleepy girl loves her new bed but still wants to be close to mom 🥰

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Functioning brain cells: 0

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This is the worst possible thing you can see when you have a high energy dog…

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Neuroscientists: someone please invent a way to erase specific people from memory who I’ve made a concerted effort to forget over years. Yet once or twice a year, they randomly resurface in a dream. They don’t ever deserve space in my head. Brains are dumb. In the trash line goes.

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I want her life…

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I went in with no expectations other than “they will do something completely unexpected and blend genres I didn’t know you could blend.” Holy shit. Most experimental album yet and I’m here for it. Worth not going to sleep until 2am.

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Watching lil bro’s commencement today. Unfortunately for him, he gets to be referred to as Dr. Duffy II for the rest of his life. Muahahahahaha

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