Lis > Recent Status Updates

“As I’ve dug back into all the things that have happened to me, I’ve come to believe that every moment of it has been for a reason. How can I be so sure? Because I have it within me—just as you do—to give it a reason.”

“I kick off the Hail Mary’s hull as hard as I can, aiming for the Blip-A…. And hey, if I miss, the tether will bounce me back in the galaxy’s first interstellar bungee jump.”

“Working with Rocky is like having the world’s best engineer from 1950 on the ship with me.”

“I saw chain whenever I closed my eyes. I dreamed of chain every night. One of my dinner packets was spaghetti and all I could see were smooth, white chains instead of noodles.”

“Before it held the high honor of being my office, the room was a storage locker for bathroom supplies…. I was approximately as critical as toilet paper”

“Step 1: Subject defecates from mouth.

‘Yup,’ I say to myself. ‘That was pretty freaking gross.’”

this science stuff is going over my head…

“No one ever talks about the *really* hard parts of first contact with intelligent alien life: pronouns.