god give me the serenity to accept that i just don't like mochi
this very real letter from emily about a particular weirdness of remote jobs, especially now (he says as he hits the year anniversary of a job where he has...
a narcissist who will take any opportunity for autobiographical writing
writing a daily standup post at work in slack, which as a narcissist who will take any opportunity for autobiographical writing i (duh) love. it's something...
the dalai lama (apparently) on worrying
the way that boxer briefs or briefs cradle and support my balls, something i take for granted but was reminded of after briefly wearing a pair of old boxer...
the intoxication of convalescence
i don't feel anxious at the beginning of this week like i did at the beginning of last weekhannah's pizza zinevariation of kumquat called a "limequat"...
it's colder today but it's not going to rain
the deep satisfaction of having what felt like a good idea for something at work (after a challenging week) and taking the space to write it down in full...
if you have the ability to get a sumo mandarin, please get one
manager didn't show up to a meeting yesterday because she was unexpectedly stuck in traffic so i got to have a nice social call with khgot my antidepressant...
wish i was anxious for respectable national historical reasons
felt just spectacularly crappy and anxious (even for me!) yesterday, a bit less so today but still feel like shit, writing this note as a lazy...
this photo of a sunrise or a sunset (not sure which)
the interesting quar phenomenon of everybody (including me) constantly looking at their cloud photo app of choice's "{n} years ago today" feature and...
it is friday!
it is friday!
however this process may defrag the hard drive of my mind
my never-ending love for the dense playful illegal ADD music of girl talk, which neatly dates the particular era of millennial i am, and that i found out,...
another huge "productivity hack" in my tool kit
the sound of rain (thank god because there is so much of it here)the child's lunch of a half peanut butter and jelly sandwich on multigrain bread with chips...
fidgeting with things and touching my face
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....