8/11
the mosquito bite inside my belly button stopped itching
a haircut in a folding chair in the kitchen on a saturday morning
there's so much sidewalk around where we live, and so many trees
i picked a plum off a tree on the street and ate it
even on-sale grocery store cherries are thicc
walked past a stand of lavender in a random yard and the smell suddenly overwhelmed me
getting burgers and boba with k and t, going shopping for puzzles, getting double boba and looking forward to a future time when i will get triple boba or quadruple boba
i let myself stop at the cinnabon in the mall but restrained myself and only got a mini-bon (even though that felt like kind of a cop-out, because there's a level of hot dark cinnamon sugar white frosting slurry that you only really get in a full-sized one) and split it with d at a short bar next to a little boy watching anime with his mother
we walked nine miles, stopping on the way home to pick up milk and pie
this recipe we made tonight, which was fantastic,
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020330-one-pan-shrimp-scampi-with-orzo)(modifications, i wanted to use a whole pound of orzo and so to balance that out, i got a pound and a half of shrimp, a couple more cloves of garlic and another tablespoon of butter, twice the wine and an extra half cup or so of chicken broth, and a heavy hand on the lemon zest, the actual cooking was mostly the same except i let the orzo toast much longer than the recipe called for and i do not think that was to its detriment)
jia tolentino's trick mirror (
https://www.amazon.com/Trick-Mirror-Self-Delusion-Jia-Tolentino-ebook/), which is just incredibly fucking good, i highlight something on almost every page
the whole thrust of this rebecca traister piece on elizabeth warren (
https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/elizabeth-warren-teacher-presidential-candidate.html) but also specifically each of elizabeth warren's reflections on teaching, which are so inspiring and nice (also a really beautiful effortless slow motion lay-up of an ending by traister)
kava kava and fish oil with this particular EPA/DHA ratio d found, which i have added to my supplement regiment (jia tolentino: "But the endurance that barre builds is possibly more psychological than physical. What it’s really good at is getting you in shape for a hyper-accelerated capitalist life...Barre feels like exercise the way Sweetgreen feels like eating: both might better be categorized as mechanisms that help you adapt to arbitrary, prolonged agony") and i feel like really does make a difference
we got a dab pen and it is such a nice high, i remember when we were in colorado, my mom, who doesn't really like smoking weed, said it feels "clean" and it seemed weird to me but now, taking much more sensible serving sizes than we did there, i know what she means
fred meyer, which, after several disappointing grocery store visits, hits that midwestern pleasure center i am accustomed to (and has kroger store brands, including my pint favorite, yukon denali extreme moose tracks, and, though they didn't have it today and we had to get polar, the kroger doctor pepper seltzer)
i actually feel a little excited about work tomorrow and am looking forward to things i am going to do
but i'm also thankful it's not tomorrow yet
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