dinner of champions

current state

too many headaches, not enough Olympics. AND SPEAKING OF, I am officially OVER headaches, over headaches caused by stress, over headaches caused by too much sunlight (lol), over headaches caused by too little sleep, over headache meds that you can only take 10 times in a month, and i’m definitely over being so g-d sensitive to everything!

Untitled (Say Goodbye, Catullus, to the Shores of Asia Minor)

is it possible

…that my right foot is growing, exponentially? it’s definitely longer and always hurts. also i’m watching jake gyllenhaal’s presumed innocent and…meh? but meh in a fine way. i devoured the book in high school (it’s really kinda great), but i can’t remember the storyline, except who did it. amazing ending. anyway jake is way too buff to play this character. PRINT IT

UPDATE: I didn’t finish watching presumed innocent, it was driving me crazy, no one worth anything, and the plot twist (I read about it) was terrible — all in all a pointless exercise, i’m sorry

it me

i really am grateful for gifs!

THE END

not just on the jubilation of freedom

loved this description of the juneteenth holiday, from representative sheila jackson lee’s obituary (bolding my own):

Ms. Jackson Lee was the author and lead sponsor of the legislation that in 2021 established Juneteenth — commemorating the day in 1865 when the last slaves in Texas finally learned of their freedom — as the first new federal holiday in 38 years.

“I thought it was extremely important,” she said on CNN in 2022 “to pass a federal holiday that would give America a moment to be able to reflect not just on the jubilation of freedom, but also the brutality of slavery and what it meant to human beings.”

my kind of pasta

*though not sure why they put magnet in quotes

brain stuffed but empty

but grateful for:

• friends
• family
• thoughtful political podcasts
• rye bread
• gifs
• hanging out with nieces and nephews
• perfect double feature with ross on a friday night
• not falling asleep during said double feature!!!! a miracle (thank you diet coke? thank you jason statham?)
• dreaming about birthday presents
• making birthday present lists
• buying stuff as distraction (OK OK I KNOW THIS IS BAD)
• ice cream sandwiches
• pavlovas – someone make these all the time please so that i can just get used to them and not be like AW-OOGA when they make an appearance in my life

not grateful for:

• work meetings on a sunday, even if it’s fun
• feeling entirely drained
• how dry it is in marfa
• headaches
• jaw ache
• dogs pooping indoors
• thinking about facelifts, what a d-r-a-g
• spelling bee (ugh why can’t i quit this)

no such thing as a bad walk (in the rain)