Avrila, dodging COVID round 2

@ebrillblaiddes.bsky.social

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Part adjunct, part self-employed, entirely neurodivergent. She/her in STEM, i.e., had pronouns before people got offended by them. Can't believe it's controversial to not want SARS. Also plays with string 🧶

Selfie of me with window signage at the South Texas College of Law. I'm wearing a straw hat and blue striped shirt.
A stack of six law textbooks, with titles like "Civil Procedure" and "Texas Rules of Form."
Wall of text, the important feature of which is that it contains four possessive apostrophes, of which two (circled in green) are facing correctly but two (circled in red) are rotated 180° as if they were single open quotes.
A Mediterranean House Gecko with a stubtail, on a bark-texture terrarium back panel, behind some grass. His head is pointed down toward the dirt to watch for BUGS -- crickets, mealworms, and fruit flies are on the menu.
A lizard with scales that are various shades of light brown, on the flat top of a foam artificial-bark back panel in his terrarium.
Terrarium with dirt in the bottom, a bunch of grass and a few other sprouts, a couple small stone bowlish things, a thing that looks like half a coconut with a mousehole style door, and deep bark texture up the back suitable for small lizards to climb on. It has recently been sprayed for moisture levels, so the glass and plants have droplets all over and the stones have a shiny water layer.
Photo down the inside of a paper tube in a plastic container, with a lizard in the tube. Everything is quite backlit so the lizard is more of a silhouette.
Four unidentified things that look like scribbly dots on a glass window, with a blurry tree in the background.
Avrila's Bluesky license, generated by the site linked downthread. Vaguely driver's license style, with various posting stats on display.
Screenshot from my notifications of Cheshire Cat liking a few of my posts and following me back. Full text: Notifications, All, Mentions Cheshire Cat followed you back 5m Cheshire Cat liked your post 5m Have to give them credit for one thing though, it's nice when the trash takes itself out. Wish I could get the bathroom wastebasket to learn that trick. Cheshire Cat liked your post 5m Bahaha that being blocked me for this: bsky.app/profile/ebri... This being how they spend their time, I have a hypothesis about why they can't finish their to-do list.
Plastic fork with the middle tines broken off, and dental floss wrapped around and running between each of the remaining tines.
The same padfolio as in the referenced post, but the scratches are much less prominent.
A brown leather padfolio with a lot of cat scratches.
Miles Edwards O'Brien in uniform, looking at you with his hands on his hips and grinning, with meme text "Stay alive. Stay fucking alive. It's shit now but it won't always be. Happiness comes in waves. You will find it and feel it again."
An extremely improvised cotton ball creature, on a desk. Supposed to be a sheep, neck length is not quite giraffe but maybe antelope.
"Pre-procedure Prophylactic" is written at the top in classic ninja turtle logo styles to emphasize that it follows the beat. The scene below is a city street and the four turtles are peeking out from under a sewer access cover.
A black cat is getting a belly rub whilst flopped out on a human in jeans and a green shirt. Legs are sort of sticking out at random. Pic is taken from above.
Tabby kitten with shaved belly, laying on human legs in black trousers.
Envelope held up to a light, revealing various form details including a bank routing number (which is public) and a silhouette of a stretched out cat over a bank account number.
A black cat and a black and white cat, snuggling on a dark plaid blanket on a grey couch.
A grey tabby, facing away. She's sitting on a bed and washing herself.
Email entitled "South Texas College of Law Houston Decision Notification" Message text: "Dear Avrila, I am very pleased to inform you of your admission to South Texas College of Law Houston, for the Fall 2026 semester as a part-time online student. We are proud to welcome you to our close-knit community and we look forward to developing a rewarding relationship with you, beginning while you are a student and continuing long after you graduate. In order to reserve your place in the entering class, you must pay a seat deposit of $350 no later than 04/15/2026. This non-refundable deposit will be applied as payment of your registration fee at the time you register. This deposit can be paid by personal check, money order, or credit card, although credit card is preferred. Failure to timely remit your seat deposit will result in the forfeiture of your seat in" The screenshot is cut off at that point.
Tree branches with several icicles, including one particular huge gnarly one.
Google alert about "Lower than normal temperatures Mon-Tue" which came in at 20:15 (8:15 PM) today, which for context is about 24 hours after the area went below freezing.
A selfie in which I am wearing a purple/pink floral print shirt and my face is half hidden by a black cat with yellow eyes and perky ears.
Veggie tray with carrots, broccoli florets, mini peppers, grape tomatoes, and cucumber slices around ranch dressing.
The fierce hunter Thunder, a void-type cat, rests on a scuffed wood floor, having captured a red and white cloth catnip mouse.
Photo of a knitting swatch in progress. The yarn is light blue and stitch pattern seems to be stockinette.
Screenshot from the post below, showing the word "mortifying."
Black cat in profile, being held by human staff member.
Meme with blue flag and text: "Marked safe from 2025 today."
A pair of feet on a footstool, modeling a pair of blue/purple ombre wool socks.
A steel-and-glass electric tea kettle on a desk that we would be charitable to call "busy." The kettle has blue LEDs in the bottom of the glass part, so the water looks kind of glowy.
Data display representing 265 likes, 131 posts, and 20 reposts on a weekday vs. time of day grid.
A black cat (Thunder) is getting energetically slurped by a grey cat (Smoke, his sister). Smoke is motion-blurred and her tongue is visible as a pink smear.
Scrap paper of calculations. The exact numbers are unimportant but they show that the number of ballots received at a polling place is 526 and so is the number of ballots accounted for at the end of the night, i.e. things are how they should be.
Screenshot from East Texas Food Bank web site with wrapped gift graphic. Above the graphic is their logo and the text "Donation successful." Below the graphic is the text "Thanks for your support, Avrila! You've made a $26.90 USD donation."
Black cat seen from above/behind, wrapping his front legs and to be honest whole self around a human arm.
Screenshot from book of text "This evening she stared gloomily at a screen which showed Brian Cowley, increasingly notorious figurehead of a poisonous movement called Humanity First, spewing out his manipulative bile, folksy homespun anecdotes hiding some smart, but very divisive and dangerous, politics. Impulsively she turned the sound off. Still the hatred seeped like sweat out of the guy's face."
A car in a parking lot (with other assorted cars in the background). Its front driver's side wheel has literally come off.
News photo of the White House with a chunk torn out of its side behind a fence, with flage overheaded. Added to the news photo, a sticker of Donald Trump is placed in the lower left corner, pointing at the damage and labeled "I did that!"
Screenshot about the Wikipedia Which Came First game, stating that I scored 4/5. The topics included list: * James VI and I * Martin Luther * United States embargo against Cuba * Isabella I of Castile * Second Peace of Thorn (1466)
Speech bubble with "I said no kings" pointing at George Washington. Both George and the bubble are cut out of printer paper and attached to a chunk of cardboard which used to be part of a box.
Map of the United States, colored by state, including Alaska and Hawaii in the lower left corner. The state capitols and many other cities are labeled. Nearby land such as Mexico, Canada, and Cuba is grey.
Screenshot of @whitehouse-47's profile profile in blocked placeholder mode, notably bearing the note "User Blocked by 'Why aren't you looking at my garbage fire?' "
Screenshot of results summary: in a box it says "I scored 4/5 on 'Which came first?' today.' with four green check marks and one red x. Above the box "Wikipedia" appears, kind of like letterhead. Below the box, a list is labeled "Topics included:" and includes the following topic titles with icons: * Leeds United F.C.: Association football club in England * World War I: 1914-1918 global conflict * List of regicides of Charles I * Great Northern War: Swedish Russian conflict (1700-1721) * Sweden: Country in Northern Europe
Two small rectangular filters, one very used, the other fresh for comparison purposes, demonstrating the difference between the two. When I say very used, I'm not saying you could grow carrots or potatoes in the dirt on the old one, but something lighter on the roots like a nice cherry tomato vine is not out of the question.
Close in photo of a black cat laying on his side, curled around a hand on his belly. One of his front legs is pulling the hand closer.
A knee, lower leg, and ankle, taken from above, with a thumb in the shot for scale because the angle is awkward as all heck as to foreshortening. The knee has a scraped and irritated region with total area about double the thumbnail. There's also a bit of a scratch below the scrape, and a bruise on the calf. None of the injuries are severe, just annoying level.
Wide-brim straw hat with green crochet lace band.
An extremely relaxed black cat, flopped over on his back, getting a belly rub.
A leg rub tear on a pair of trousers, repaired by the method of patching from behind and then stitching back and forth and back and forth and back and forth etc. across the tear.
A very relaxed black cat. So relaxed that he has rolled over and his head and limbs are just sort of flopped around.
White plastic bowl with a bottle of water and a freeze pack in it, with a small black sign saying "Hello letter carriers, parcel deliverers, and other neighbors! Everyone is welcome to some cold water because no one in our commUNITY should have to be overheated. Be safe!" The hashtag #CommunitiesUnited is also on the sign.
A casserole sized plastic dish with bowtie pasta, string cheese cut down bite size, baby corn, and chopped carrots, bellpeppers, pepperoncini, and salami.
Hand holding a drawing tablet stylus with thumb, middle, and ring finger near the tip, pinkie finger out of the way behind, and index finger curled back and slightly around the stylus.
A leopard relaxes on a tree branch, staring thoughtfully into the distance. A speech bubble from the leopard states "Om nom cheek meat."
A leopard relaxes on a tree branch, staring thoughtfully into the distance. A speech bubble from the leopard states "Om nom cheek meat."
Windowbox style planter with three sprouts, with two leaves each, growing in it, and other boxes and buckets around.
A bag crocheted from teal-to-white gradient yarn, with a flexible mesh middle, straps, handles, and a tab with a button to somewhat secure the stuff inside it.