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mariel.bsky.social
Latina. Texpat. Software Engineer. Lawyer. Alum: Flatiron School, University of Texas School of Law '12, Texas A&M '09. I love Houston, cookies, dogs, and making stuff.
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This is also how I became domesticated.

Came to sit near the pool to read and I might have been the only person trying to find shade. Ban the sun keep it away from my skin pls. Beige don't age but not by accident!

At some point, you're the one responsible for your lack of reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. So like, work on that instead of being Mad Online.

ok hear me out what if we only let billionaires buy small unhinhabited man-made islands. then they can live out their IRL Sim fantasies there and leave the rest of us alone.

TL cleanse. A few hundred strangers doing the wave to stay entertained before a show. Because people can be good.

It's wild being at Disney World and seeing all of these diverse and happy families And wondering how many of them are going home to find out [gestures broadly at most recent horrors] have affected them.

Being on vacation and then checking the news is exactly this

this sucks boo 2025

I'm just over 45k steps and I think my record is 47k so idk team we might break it

The mood on the bus this AM is even more

ok but have you seen us trying to get the war hymn alternating swaying right Aggie jokes exist for a reason

Ignore that they're facing different directions. This is my first year getting them. Paul got me a bracelet for my birthday because I decided I want to start getting the race charms bc I do not need another shirt or jacket or corkcicle and also they're tiny/don't need to be packed.

One thing I like about my particular flavor of anxiety is that once it's time for The Thing to happen it's FUCK IT WE BALL WE'LL DO IT LIVE. because at that point I can't be anxious anymore we ran out of time to anxiety now we only have doity or dieity. But BEFORE The Thing happens it's just

Also also - I'm going to need to pace myself better. I did the first 3 today at a 12'30" pace which I don't think I've done since HS, and then after that I was in the 13s somewhere. But it was only 6mi so whatever.

Also they changed the route this year and the route through MK is backwards from the other 5(!) times I've done this here and I DO NOT LIKE CHANGE.

I had to do the races virtually last year. I just went to look at my step counts from when I was here in 2023. I didn't do the 10k so I wanted to see how many steps I took the day before the half to see how it compared and if I'd be worn out tomorrow - It was 19k. Today I'm already at 32k 😬

I always look at Disney drink prices like 🤔 and then I take the first sip and oh nope that makes sense.

there are already enough horrors pls stop 😩

Lol this many steps tomorrow I won't even be done with the half yet.