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fidgeting with things and touching my face

January 12, 2021

one of the better mondays at work in a while: no meetings, i completed the high level tasks i needed to get done that day specifically, i had some nice...

when someone asks about what time period you'd like to live in in the past i say "i would not"

January 11, 2021

i'm thankful for daily hot showers, which are one of many reasons when someone asks about what time period you'd like to live in in the past i say "i would...

egg sando recipe

January 10, 2021

waking up on a saturday morning, eating breakfast, getting very stoned, playing music, having sex, and falling asleep againthis "rising crust" digiorno...

tons of weird supplements/dietary things

January 9, 2021

i wrote up a list of things that helped with my heartburn (a very big theme of the first year or so of the newsletter) for d's friend s and here it is in...

i do always like it when great artists fail

January 8, 2021

i'm thankful i got a raise and, as i do whenever something about salary is involved, i thought of the mad men scene where peggy says don could say thank you...

macaroni chicharrones

January 7, 2021

that thing where you are using a knife irresponsibly (in my case, cubing half a mango in my hand because i was too lazy to clean the garlic-y onion-y cutting...

i don't know what asymptote means

January 6, 2021

MITCH MCCONNELL ISN'T GOING TO BE MAJORITY LEADER ANYMORE FUCK YOU FOREVER YOU EVIL PIECE OF SHIT TURTLE ASS MOTHERFUCKERwhatever the opposite of...

that expression about a broken clock being right twice a day

January 5, 2021

successful hades run on the treadmill (and at the end i also successfully did the fishing minigame, which i almost always fail at, and got a bass, which is...

god mode

January 4, 2021

last night, to try to fend off the post-vacation sunday scaries and give me a "quick win" that would calm my mind, i finally turned on god mode for hades....

something i have repeatedly learned then unlearned then relearned and have relearned again

January 3, 2021

i really needed a new "scrub daddy" because the one i had been using is disintegrating but i forgot that when we were at the grocery store and then d (who...

treat people with kindness

January 2, 2021

the new harry styles video, "treat people with kindness," in which he dances in matching outfits with phoebe waller-bridge. my best surprise christmas gift...

dasein within reach

January 1, 2021

we moved twice when i was in high school for my dad's work and after a relatively normal and happy experience at the first high school, i got to the second...

periods of sunshine in the winter

December 6, 2020

a week and a half away from work and from life an ocean too cold to swim in private fire pit, space heater, a large bathtub periods of sunshine in the winter...

internet doctor

November 25, 2020

internet doctor resubmitted my prozac prescription as three twenty milligram pills my insurer will allow instead of the one sixty milligram tablet the...

we found her in the front yard

November 18, 2020

i'm thankful that though i left the gate to the back yard open after taking out the compost yesterday evening and forgot about it and then later that night...

headphone masterpiece

November 17, 2020

the other day in the car, i remembered cody chesnutt's album the headphone masterpiece, a double album of demos recorded in a bedroom to be heard on a...

moving beyond remote

November 16, 2020

this afternoon i did an erasure of slack's "Moving beyond remote: Workplace transformation in the wake of Covid-19" and this is a recording of me reading it

very weird instagram account

November 16, 2020

this youtube compilation of clips of marc bolan's TV show in the seventiesevery week at the grocery store i look for pomelo, hoping that it will finally be...

it rained heavily all night

November 13, 2020

i'm thankful that though i yelled very loudly at miso yesterday evening because i was very tired from strenuous troubleshooting and just wanted to focus for...

watching d spin around jumping up and down with glee

November 12, 2020

watching d spin around jumping up and down with glee after realizing she had beaten level 11 of beat saber, which we both had been stuck on for a week or...