then i bust out

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A post shared by Michelle Maguire (@pandahandler) on May 24, 2017 at 9:28am PDT

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NON-RAINY RAIN CLOUDS PERVADE

#stateofmind

#mood

courtney’s son, courtesy of courtney

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A LOT TO SAY

i was in houston for a week for my wedding shower and connie’s baby shower and here are some things:

1. dude, wedding showers may be traditional but they are COOL, people are cool, and generous, and sweet, and they give you cool things! it’s very touching and strange and like, who needs stuff really, but actually it is kind of amazing to get stuff. new life building things. like a new toaster oven! (we are still using mine from college, 20+  years old — have to give it up to that old black and decker, it has a been a straight up workhorse — but pretty stoked to dig into this new cuisinart)
2. while in houston, carolyn and i saw clark lord at this place in the village, i was like, oh my god that’s clark lord. i had a crush on him my freshman year of high school, when he was a sophomore and sat next to me in geometry and was very funny and cool and wore loafers without socks. now he looks like a real suburban dad. point is, time is complicated.
3. also while in the village, carolyn and i stopped into this place called “the chocolate bar” and it is so cool to still find places that are good hang out spots for teens, and fun places for teens to work.
4. dude if i move again, it has to be a place that has rain. it doesn’t have to be rainy — it just has to rain.
5. tried the 7-minute workout this morning. [thinking face emoji]
6. watched all of master of none. mixed review but some episodes were great.
7. i want to buy this potion, for name alone
8. today saw a reference to the robert hass poem “meditation at lagunitas” and a long time ago my friend thu gave me the apple trees at olema, so i pulled it out of the bookshelf, and tonight i’m going to read that poem. life is cool sometimes.
9. today i didn’t study any GRE or take any of my mandatory practice tests but i’m cool with it. sometimes you just gotta blog, man.

OTHER STUFF BUT I CAN’T REMEMBER

it also underscores

from the new york times weekend briefing:

It was a simple plan. A college student in Kentucky would crawl through a building’s air duct in the wee hours to steal a copy of a final exam.

But the student, and another one helping him, were caught in the act by the instructor. They’ve been charged with felony burglary.

“It’s an unusual set of circumstances,” a University of Kentucky spokesman said. “It also underscores how late our faculty work.”

after so many years of just being a person who had her head down

Samin Nosrat at Via Carota. Photo: Liz Clayman, courtesy of New York Mag.

chef and cookbook author samin nosrat discussing her week in food on grub street:

Then we went to my favorite New York restaurant, Via Carota, where I was meeting my agent and the VP of my production company for a celebratory lunch. The book is being turned into a docuseries. I get to go to nine countries. I made up the number nine. Many countries. So that’s crazy. I’ve been a cook since I was 20 years old. I have worked for $10, $12, $14, and $18 an hour. And then I became a writer, which, as you know, is an equally not-so-lucrative career — and this very interesting and wonderful and strange thing, to have this moment where, all of a sudden, the world is recognizing you. You all of a sudden have legitimacy, after so many years of just being a person who had her head down, working her butt off, feeling always sort of overlooked. So I’ve gone to a lot of therapy, as I’ve mentioned. This is an interesting week to be doing this with you, because it’s just a really fun and weird week in my life. There has never been something like this.

i have so much to say about this. first, clearly i relate to being a person who always has her head down. just working. grinding, really. second. nosrat has a great attitude about snacks. third, i also love via carota, only been there once but see my post about buttery sheets and white wine and amish waitresses. FOUR. there was this crazy time right before i moved from san francisco (2000?) where my friend jonah and i went to the chez panisse cafe a few times, just off the cuff, as a real life everyday indulgence (that jonah paid for!). THE END

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the sikest cuts

columbus, texas

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dunkumentaries

only listened to two episodes, but the end of the first one, “sneaker wars,” about boston celtic dee brown and michael jordan’s run-in an alley is so funny and poignant. recommend.

(be warned, though, that dunkumentaries has a distracting and grating amount of ’90s atmospheric background music)

what a time

avoiding math gre homework by finally reading this essay by playwright lynn nottage, about learning to drive at 50:

Then I reached the do-or-die point, and six weeks before leaving for Oregon, I finally got the courage to walk to the D.M.V. at the Atlantic Center in Brooklyn and get my learner’s permit. Two weeks later, I took the five-hour driver’s ed course in a grimy auto school that seemed frozen in time, perhaps 1975.

I watched a series of safety videos, one of which was narrated by Bruce Jenner. Some of the tapes were so antiquated that they featured people puffing on cigarettes while cruising in convertibles without seatbelts.