an email from my health insurance

WRONG ALGORITHM

good reminder

from aminatou sow:

“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” — Toni Morrison

monday musings

• after all these years, it turns out that i don’t like the singer lee hazelwood’s voice AT ALL
• watched spiderman: far from home and rate tom holland v. charming
• also watched jaws for the first time — in my mind, it’s the prototypical summer blockbuster, but it’s more like moby dick, amirite?
• my blues persist
• speaking of, the st. louis blues play on wednesday and we’re stoked, though guessing it won’t last long (sports, playing, no sickness, etc. etc.)

this really is extra good

wow

also, unrelated, but related: “letter in autumn” by donald hall

digging the mail chimp copywriter

give us a poem

i posted this piece in the marfa public library newsletter, and i keep thinking about it. first read about it in kimberly drew’s new book, this is what i know about art. from the studio museum:

Initially created as a site-specific installation for The Studio Museum in Harlem’s lobby, Give Us a Poem demonstrates Glenn Ligon’s ability to infuse language with alternate meaning by translating it in bright neon. Ligon sourced the text from a speech Muhammad Ali made at Harvard University in 1975. When asked by a student to give the audience a poem, Ali replied “me, we,” in a simple but profound pairing that connects individual and collective experience. 

oh yes

• nytimes editors lists are back!!!!!!!!
• should i be concerned that the best part of my day is getting into bed
• we made this last night and it was great — in the same family as the bon appetit ribollita. basically i only make tomatoey stews with a lot of carbs, especially in summer. let’s get as hot and stuffed as possible.
• next on my cooking list: trying marcella hazan’s tomato sauce trilogy. hazan was a scientist? loved marlboro lights? tried to find a pic of her smoking but this cutie one will have to do.

wow some weeks are just not breezy

this week has been incredibly stupid, ALREADY. headaches, terrible sleep, fights with ross, missed work deadlines (tho no one totally paying attention to these deadlines) (i both dread and desire the day when people ARE paying attention to my deadlines). lessons:

• always work on sundays (bummer one but if it avoids THIS kind of week — maybe worth it?)
• stay in bed all saturday
• frontload all storybook selections weeks in advance
• make extra iced coffee to avoid running out
• watch more stand-up specials
• work late monday and tuesday nights
• give up

glad/sad/desolate

• just realizing that *all* librarians are nerds???? can i rewrite this story? is there any way to be a COOL librarian? ross says hard no.
• i made this last night and i wouldn’t NOT recommend it
• way behind on my videos that are due tomorrow but feeling a little emo so taking a minute
• still against headaches
• pro tiger balm applied liberally to headache zones
• pro iced coffee made at home
• pro nuggs
• pro adam liptak
• pro bindles
• pro retail therapy (it’s a pandemic, life is sadness)