Less hateful than my name suggests

@kzannarbor

Higher Ed nerd, ne’er-do-well. Mostly dumb personal stuff posted here, but occasional bursts of higher ed noodling

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Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· 11d

I took a couple photos of people with their pets, this is one of my faves

Woman in a large spare gallery with large pillows on the floor. She’s lounging on one and her dog (looks like a cattle dog mix, maybe) is sitting next to her. She points up at a media display. Her human companion looks on fondly.

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Jul 13

I managed to save this blank book I had as an adolescent. Fortunately/unfortunately, all but seven pages are still blank. LIVE LAUGH CRINGE

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Jul 8

The snack credenza competition was in a state of quiet detente but suddenly SHOTS FIRED

Fixings for pimento cheese and tomato sandwiches spread on an office credenza

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· May 26

This is what I got

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· May 12

I don’t take a lot of meetings in my office so when one gets put on my calendar, there’s a scramble while I clean up the toys & dumb sight gags stashed around my office

Big canvas drawstring bag with a dollar sign printed on it, stuffed with fake money. About to get hidden in a file drawer.

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· May 1

Heading out of my neighborhood this morning and I see this. This area is nobody’s yard. It is between a big retention pond and a tree line behind a neighborhood.

A large stuffed animal, which is a frog possibly wearing a bowtie, just sitting in a grassy area, staring at traffic

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 29

Dear Wall Street Journal: I know advanced business topics like contracts are kind of new to you guys, but you should learn the difference between the word flaunt and flaut

Snippet from WSJ about golf with a weird mixup of words

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 24

I hope you’re proud of yourself

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 23

Here I am back on my bullsh*t. I have had serious beef with a certain CUSA school for over three decades. So I was looking for a school to leapfrog it with a donation. In respect for hatch chiles, University of New Mexico it is. EDSBSCharityBowl.com

Another picture of the dashing spencer celebrating my donation to University of New Mexico

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 23

I don’t always align with everything our faculty senate chair has to say, but I respect him for this little aside in between those commas

Quote from a dude noting that a pattern of problems seems to be a dude thing

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 23

Supporting the American Dream + obnoxious Michigan dominance. Go Blue. Www.moneycannon.org

Spencer approving of my donation that commemorates 133 points scored on MSU over the past four years vs their 44

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 19

And I didn’t know what to think. Who made these selections? What bookstore tells you a book is “band?” Here are a few other examples

Brown wrapping paper label over a book with a weird description pasted on, using the word HIND for HIDE, and spelling prohibition as “probation”

Brown wrapping paper over a book with a description pasted on… spelling double as DOULDE

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 19

Buy a couple of them, I need a Mother’s Day gift & get well gift & I’d be happy to carry the extra weight around to have a fun unknown book for the recipient to unwrap. But then I started reading the descriptions and they had weird misspellings I couldn’t imagine serious readers would make…

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 15

Well now I’m up. I don’t know if I can recall the last time I’ve heard all the emergency sirens wailing like this.

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 10

You don’t need to send me this I’m already aware

Cartoon about somebody joyfully adopting a plant and then taking it home to the horrors that are all his other neglected specimens

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Apr 10

Time to onboard a new friend from the office plant lending library. Meet Leaf Erickson

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Mar 31

Signs of spring

Screenshot of a chat between me and the colleague in another office about whether it’s sandal weather yet. Verdict: YES IT IS

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Mar 12

I’m sorry, People magazine but the shoes pictured are not loafers.

Screenshot of an article title from People magazine, where apparently they don’t have dictionaries. Or access to Menswear guy

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Mar 1

When the student life staff at your undergrad college was so awesome you’re still in touch three decades after you graduated

Two broads in front of a marble column on a gorgeous day on UVa’s campus

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Mar 1

Six runs in the first inning is okay by me. Go blue, go get ‘em Michigan softball Also I’m in a t-shirt here in VA under blue skies and it’s below freezing back in Ann Arbor GRATEFUL

Softball scoreboard showing UM vs Villanova one inning with what looks like a blue sky but I’m not sure because we forget what those look like in SE Michigan in winter

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Feb 28

Watching them groom the infield under the supervision of this awesome dog #michigansoftball

Small tractor on a softball infield with a herding dog riding on the back.

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Feb 24

More kitten photos

Black kitten lying on the carpet, staring right into the camera. In the background is a gorgeous wooden base to a coffee table and yes, my husband did make it, thank you for noticing

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Feb 23

I need kitten photos today so you get some too

Kitten poking face out from under a bookcase

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Feb 21

Scrolling right on by

Headline from Newsweek telling us winter isn’t done with us yet — that is, if you live north of Robert Kelchen

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Feb 14

I do a volunteer lasagna delivery gig and I’m upping my game by also making tiny ones for my family at the same time (we cannot get through a full pan). [My son would call that libelous because he probably could eat a whole pan over a few days but I question if there’s room in the shared fridge.]

lasagna baked in a small loaf pan, cooling before delivery to my offspring

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Feb 8

How is this open at DTW at 11:45 pm — BLESS THIS ENTIRE STAFF

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Feb 7

Is this how they tell you there will be no Biscoff?!??? I need my flight cookies, does this qualify as a “dietary need?” HOW ALARMED SHOULD I BE

Text alert from Delta airlines about a catering disruption

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Jan 30

This is the update that NextDoor’s crackerjack algorithm served up to me this morning. A post about interstate road conditions …. With no notice that it was from one week ago.

A screen grab from an email digest telling people they should stay home if they possibly can because the roads are so bad

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Jan 12

Last Christmas, my mother-in-law gave us this faux fur throw. It’s not really our thing, but we can’t get rid of it because my cat adores it. Perhaps he fantasizes that it’s a pelt from something he personally took down.

Cat totally sacked out on a faux fur throw

Less hateful than my name suggests@kzannarbor· Dec 31

This is how my cat spent the first half of the Citrus Bowl. I’m telling myself it’s well-founded confidence.