either as a fault of style or for emphasis

the word of the day in my word of the day email the other day, pleonasm: The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. see with one's eyes), either as a fault of style or for emphasis.

had a dream the other night where i had to write a short story and feeling like "fuckkkkk" and then waking up and realize i never have to write (or, tbh, read) another short story for the rest of my fucking life ✌️

but also, working with two coworkers during our company retreat last week to do a slack trivia game that i think went really well and was satisfying even if it was a lot of work

feeling happy about the code i'm writing lately and about the code i will write in the future

learning that my daily sixty milligrams of prozac is somehow effective against covid variants (i only skimmed this, for the contact high of knowledge) (via em)

this ask.metafilter question from a person who had this feeling of being really good at difficult video games while coming up on an SSRI at an earlier point in their life and was going into it again and wanted to try to savor the experience 

the reminder of the feeling that first week i was taking prozac for the first time, swimming giddily laps in the pool in the basement of the school building on my lunch break and it was like i was superman

that it was always darker in the pool rooms than in the rest of the building which was really pleasing after a morning of fluorescence

rewatching the leftovers starting with season 2 (because i did not have the energy necessary for season 1) and it's as good and weird and fun as i remember it, especially when it does its sopranos dream trip "international assassin"  and (as i remember it) that kind of gets infused into the rest of the show, which :inject it into my veins:

also d watching "curb your enthusiasm" with me (the first time for her). laughing together is the best, which is why a sitcom feels like such a daily bread kinda thing to me

the word of the day in my word of the day email today, vernal: of, in, or appropriate to spring

agree with h's assessment that the melodies on the new lana album collectively just aren't nfr quality (though i do love the tay tay cadence of the chorus of the breathy "white dress," which i think is probably the prettiest, so interesting to hear her copy someone who copied her and yet also make it her own)

also the audacity of how she sings the incredibly unmusical phrase "the men in music business conference" (d, not realizing i'm transcribing what she's saying right now: "so long and so graceless, i really like this song but it's just stupid")

the high harmonies in the last verse of haim's "los angeles"

the justin bieber song "peaches", especially the live version, which i can't get out of my head (he is the only other justin whose success i will countenance)

dipping a shrimp in butter and then dipping it in shrimp furikake, shrimp on shrimp (it didn't actually taste that good, but i liked it conceptually)

d and i playing music together often and lately improvising on jingles for "miso's meatzerria" which is an all meat restaurant (like a brazillian steakhouse but also it has raw meat) owned and operated by miso

chocolate chip cookie dough