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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...

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...

fortune cookies and drop biscuits

November 10, 2020

nation's avoidance of the absolute worst possible outcomeeven though all that shit dampened the feeling myself vibes of scorpio season that i was feeling...

November 1, 2020

i'm thankful that though we live on an anonymous numbered street that, from the nearest cross street of our neighborhood's grid, looks like the anonymous...

the plot is stupid

October 27, 2020

the new show how to with john wilson on HBO, which is such a delightful surprise (my elevator pitch is nathan for you crossed with billy on the street, but...

eating cake for breakfast

October 23, 2020

i ate two portions of leftover cake for breakfast this morning.after falling off the wagon for a season or two, watching the current season of the great...

the rare moment when you are actually happy to have received a push notification

October 18, 2020

this new yorker article about eels from a few months ago, which, if you missed it like i did you should definitely readthe season premiere of the...

October 15, 2020

yesterday evening d made some off-hand reference to me disliking imogen heap, which in one sense is understandable because i dislike many people/musicians...

every movie is between one and a half and two and half hours

October 14, 2020

realizing that the only way to start doing something again is to start doing it againyesterday i crossed the road at the beginning of a run and got stopped...

i unlocked venice

September 16, 2020

the air quality went from "hazardous" to "very unhealthy"feeling comfortable asking my boss for help with something i don't know how to do (and the feeling...

September 6, 2020

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a really important thought i had (sorry)

August 25, 2020

a really important thought i had (sorry) which is what if the disney channel show "dog with a blog" had as its soundtrack a parody of kid rock's "bawitdaba"...

still, at the base level, pizza

August 23, 2020

i'm thankful for running outside on a summer morning, which is just the very best that running gets; warm enough that you're not having to psych yourself up...

it's going to be a hundred degrees

August 15, 2020

and i am sitting in the backyard in the shade listening to sam donsky's my morning jacket playlist...

surprise blackberries

one day earlier in the summer when we had people over in the backyard, someone noticed that there are blackberries growing on sharp vines twisted around the...

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the possibility that one day, i will successfully peel off the "easy peel" lid on top of a brick of tofu easily and in one piece, though today is not that...

croissant emoji a second day back at a habit that you've picked up and put down many times before that there is always the opportunity for a second day back...

minimizing the liquid

d is a year older and i got her one of those instagram astrology candles a partial list of the substances of d's birthday weekend: candles, dahlias, dabs,...

new grammar of flight

i'm thankful for the piece of writing by hilton als in this week's new yorker, which it feels inadequate to call an essay in the traditional sense because...

that last night thousands of us filled the bridge and stopped the traffic and knelt in the street with our hands in the air to protest the murder of george...

three puns that came to me recently, 1. GuestStar (an airbnb extension where you choose where you can filter listings based on the owner's astrological sign...

if you run down the highway just north of our house for a few miles, on the horizon to the north you can see a snow-capped mountainthe weather has been...

slightly overripe strawberries

i had to have my google password reset by an administrator this morning but they responded quickly and other people had also had to get their passwords reset...

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this post about robert pattinson's "fast food pasta" piccolini cuscino, pure joy; (also, the idea of robert pattinson responding to a text with ha ha ha"...

the best weekend of the year so fartalking about strategies for approaching a box of chocolates with friendstrying a new drug for the first time, drug...

rolling stones playlist

looking through my glasses right after they are cleaned the moment figuring out why a customer's API call wasn't working the neurochemical rush when you are...

the bottle of conditioner in the shower, which has been overturned and seemingly about to run out for weeks or maybe even a month at this point and every day...

fat chocobo materia

deborah wrote a new letter to be using the weird terrible tinyletter text editor because the email address i usually send these notes to stopped working and...

i'm thankful that yesterday evening d and i were lying on the couch watching reruns of the office and miso was in the frisky mood she sometimes gets into in...

mowed the front yard and then mowed the back yard, raking debris in a t-shirt to neaten the sceneon my run today i didn't unexpectedly walk any parts because...

the sun came out unexpectedly and we went for a walk realized that my keys had been lost for probably weeks and i hadn't realized because i didn't need them...

i'm thankful to have eaten three and a half old fashioned donuts in one sitting.