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@arguchik

I’m a freelance writer and editor. I live in Pittsburgh with my partner (he’s the tall one) and our two cats. I turned off DMs because I don't want any. she/they

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ShareCrow@arguchik· 5d

Image of dog next to a human's foot. Dog staring at a piece of food on the floor. Text over the image says "Leave it 101."

ShareCrow@arguchik· 16d

A little bit of chop on Lake Erie up here in Lakeside. A storm is brewing and I couldn’t be happier. I love it when a Great Lake gets moody.

Me, with Lake Erie looking choppy behind me.

ShareCrow@arguchik· 25d

That there is a pupper, not a doggo!

A white dog with black eyes and nose, wearing a red collar, smiles at the camera. The caption says: "When she calls you a pupper even though technically you're a doggo."

ShareCrow@arguchik· Jul 3

Sweaty run this morning. 5k at 25C, 90% humidity.

The OP, doing a run around the reservoir.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Jun 5

My lap, right now. This is Mia, my 16-year-old senior girl. How will I break it to her that I have to leave in less than half an hour? #cats #blackcats #catsofbluesky

Mia, a black/smoke medium-hair cat, sits on a colorful striped woven blanket draped across my lap. She is snoring softly.

ShareCrow@arguchik· May 27

Hello, Seattle. I’m happy to see you again, for a few days. Thanks for the beautiful weather and the California poppies blooming everywhere. I’m off to drink in what is still familiar here, and what has become strange.

A traffic circle intersection in Seattle, rife with blooming California poppies.

ShareCrow@arguchik· May 25

This may require some familiarity with 80s-era advertising… But if you have that, it’s hilarious! (And it may be just as funny with no context, what do I know?)

Jesus, smiling widely, wields a roll of Mentos fruit candies. Behind him is the sea and a fishing boat with a sail. The text reads, “Jesus: The Freshmaker.”

ShareCrow@arguchik· Apr 19

It has multiple meanings as an acronym, but in this usage it both describes and is named for that guy.

Definition of Yoho from Urban Dictionary.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Apr 2

Except this, I guess....

An excited tabby cat grasping a ribbon in its front paws and making a very excited - yet predatory, because CAT - face. The text says, in all caps and with exclamation points, "YOU GOT ME RIBBONS!! OMG! OMG!"

ShareCrow@arguchik· Apr 2

Note definition #4, below:

Screenshot taken from Merriam Webster's online dictionary, for the definition of "withheld; withholding."

ShareCrow@arguchik· Mar 14

There’s a US cultural studies book by that title. I read it in grad school. It’s about cultural confrontations between labor and capitalism.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Mar 3

The Susquehanna, looking moody and contemplative today.

The Susquehanna River, partially shrouded by rain and mist, seen from a railroad bridge.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Mar 3

My favorite part is the little headlight beam.

Screenshot from Maps, showing an Amtrak train moving along the rails next to Turtle Creek in Pennsylvania. The train is a blue dot with an adorable headlight beam pointed roughly east, the direction of the train’s travel.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Feb 14

What do you think? Should I block this number? 🧐

Screenshot of a phone’s spam call log. There are nine calls logged, all from the same number, all with the same time stamp: 17:52. (The phone’s owner prefers 24-hour, rather than 12-hour timekeeping because it removes the am/pm ambiguity.)

ShareCrow@arguchik· Jan 27

In case you’ve ever wondered why the “parking chair” is a thing in Pittsburgh. (I think they do this elsewhere, too, but I never saw it until I moved here.)

A Pittsburgh street, showing parked cars with snow deep enough to obscure the car tires.

A Pittsburgh “parking chair” sitting in a cleared parking spot.

A Pittsburgh “parking chair” showing how much snow the person had to remove to clear the spot.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Jan 25

After shoveling and salting (sorry, we have to), 11:45-ish. The snow was fully cleared before I started spreading salt.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Jan 25

Before shoveling, 11:25ish.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Jan 25

Video this time. 10:25-ish. At the end I pan to show our front walkway. My partner shoveled that an hour ago.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Jan 25

View from ~09:25.

A snowy neighborhood street in Pittsburgh.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Jan 25

Same view, approximately one hour later. Slightly heavier snowfall.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Jan 25

Snow in Pittsburgh this morning. It’s falling like fine dust right now. I’ll post pics throughout the day.

A snowy street in a Pittsburgh neighborhood.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Dec 25

Books of the 80s Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

The front cover of the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera

ShareCrow@arguchik· Dec 6

To me it seems like a precursor for Saved by the Bell.

Several images of the character Screech, from Saved by the Bell, in colorful, clownlike outfits.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Dec 2

Am I doing it right?

ShareCrow@arguchik· Nov 22

Ran the #phillyhalfmarathon with my niece today! We finished faster than we expected! Such a fun event - great course and spectator support for almost the entire route.

Me (left) and my niece (right) at or near the start line. We are both smiling and throwing peace signs.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Nov 20

Pea soup

Seen through the windshield of a moving vehicle: the Pennsylvania turnpike shrouded in fog.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Nov 15

Mine, within 48 hours of receiving her new heated cat bed.

A black cat lies on her back, limbs stretched in every direction, asleep and drunk on the heat of her new heated sherpa fleece cat bed.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Nov 14

We snap. And we are dragons.

A pair of pink snapdragon flowers with yellow spots on their lower lips.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Nov 3

Here I am after finishing my 20 km run this morning. 😊 Yes, my hair is dripping sweat and my hat (which I knit - pattern is Shedir - like…god, almost 20 years ago now. 😬😂) Philly half-marathon, here I come!

A 58-year-old woman after completing a 20 km training run this morning. Photo taken during her cool-down walk, post-run.

ShareCrow@arguchik· Oct 7

Greeted by this at the end of my 8 km run this morning. #runinthedsrk, #finishinthelight