on the last day of the company retreat i sat on a balcony with a friend talking about the emojis most associated with different people and he said mine was :fistbump: and later another friend independently said the same thing and that made me happy, since it speaks to a love of consensus, understanding, and solidarity, which is the brand i want

when i could not sleep in the early morning today, i realized after the fact that i had forgotten to take my pills before bed last night and that didn't make it better that i didn't sleep that well and my brain was grinding itself, but it at least made it explicable, which is sometimes all one can hope for

the sound of rain outside when you're in bed and don't have to leave the house

tonight d got to meet s, who is visiting e from australia, and we all hung out and had fun and there will be a party on friday

corner booths in dark bars that play good music

a high end rendering of a mcdonalds cheeseburger

"don't get me wrong" by the pretenders, which d has been playing a lot the last few days since catching it in her rewatch of the magicians and which is a truly fucking excellent song (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zw8l14MKUjY)