how does the algorithm know

friction maxxing

I’M LISTENING

a pretty good night from a few weeks ago

🥲

houston highlights

• That redheaded toddler climbing straight into my lap on the plane and watching the luggage being unloaded
• Salad for one from sweet green (lol)
• Watching TONY with the family (good/not good) (theoretically good) 
• Sweet smiling loving baby June
• Walking to that brewery to meet braxton and dancing with June to that when in Rome song (“the promise”)
• Walking Johnny
• Falling asleep so quickly and deeply on Friday night
• Going to Target for Linda (so easy)
• Going to Kroger for Linda (but forgetting ice cream)
• Andrew and Catherine eating ice cream both nights
• Reading that old Marisa Silver story and that new George Saunders story from The New Yorker 
• Linda keeping the sweatpants

a bit of flair

halloween-decorated lions in houston — approve

or whatever

the most amazing flyer created at the library today (by an 80-something-year-old)

a clear horizon

this was a good interview, too, with roz chast:

sometimes it’s the little things

my passport expired a year ago and ever since it’s been eating at me to renew it and so one night ross took my photo, i was fine with it, and i submitted my app, it took maybe 20 minutes, and now i have my passport! it’s nothing, but it gives me great relief (and pride??????) (extremely low bar these days).

we’re all fools

rewatching beetlejuice, beetlejuice (amazing sets and costumes, tbh!) and catching up on emails and newsletters. this was a good interview with lisa hanawalt: