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a narcissist who will take any opportunity for autobiographical writing
January 27, 2021
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
January 26, 2021
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
January 25, 2021
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
January 23, 2021
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
January 21, 2021
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
January 20, 2021
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)
January 17, 2021
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!
January 15, 2021
it is friday!
however this process may defrag the hard drive of my mind
January 14, 2021
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
January 13, 2021
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
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...
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...
red car
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...
just for now
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...
modern dance
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
July 31, 2020
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...
rich text editor
July 29, 2020
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...
moving air
July 28, 2020
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
July 27, 2020
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
June 28, 2020
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...
6/4/20
June 4, 2020
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...
aperol grits
May 23, 2020
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...
frozen pizza
May 21, 2020
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...
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