a little fat

• got a little fat these past few months, most of my pants are TIGHT. i’m not sure how it happened (lots of muffins, ice cream, cookie dough, not working out, not walking to work), but i’m back on my regimen now, so hopefully things will settle down. but wow wouldn’t it be great if i could just eat coffee cake and ice cream all the live long day and not worry.
• i’ve been getting so many newsletters about $200,000 facelifts and ozempic and 30-year-old billionaires and meanwhile i’m reading the news about gaza and ukraine and the assault on science and all of it feels pretty dystopian. like we’re just like the old days and no one’s more aware or more conscious now, in fact we’re actually worse? i guess i’m just saying, maybe it’s our curse as humans, to never really get more enlightened, in a real way.
• in anticipation of the latest mission: impossible, we watched all of the previous movies (#1-7) and until 6 and 7, i found the series strangely moving, like seeing tom cruise age, like he was our hardcore, traumatized friend, and we were checking in on him every few years, kind of like those 7 Up movies. #6 and #7 are too hectic, basically just insane action sequences strung together with the lightest evil plot, but still…it was a journey i enjoyed.
• mom fell twice this morning, she’s on her way to the trauma E/R. i jinxed myself because just yesterday someone asked me how she was and i was like, “she hasn’t been in the hospital since late february, she’s great!”