this is GREAT

sarah miller’s real-but-sad-but-great “The Diet Industrial Complex Got Me, and It Will Never Let Me Go”

coolin’ out, just bein’ cool

we all need some of mac’s swagger these days

father principe

on the drive, i listened to martin scorsese’s recent fresh air interview, and i love this part about his childhood mentor:

SCORSESE: But yeah, there’s one priest, Father Principe, he made a difference. He told us, you know, you don’t have to live this way. Don’t get married right away if you don’t need to. Think, explore the world.

this is EXACTLY what i want to do here, but how to do it, gently? how did father principe do it?

P.S. MARTIN SCORSESE IS ON INSTAGRAM

wow what a day

today was a lame day, encapsulated by someone at work saying, “you’re the one who seems stressed!” WOOF. just straight up woof. in retaliation, focusing on what i’m grateful for:

• going to austin, even though it was too quick
• pretty decent podcasts for the road
• ordering a healthy bowl from some cool place and having it delivered and then old-school binge watching i’m not okay with this with john and nancy until the wee hours
• drinking a smoothie with caroline
• reading books with thomas
• holding eloise
• going to mother’s (!) with john, nancy, carolyn, ben, levi, and eloise
• rainy monday morning tacos with chad
• going to FOUR grocery stores, might have even been five, tbh
• doing a doctor-doctor shot with carolyn
• my new manicure
• the best two minute back massage in the history of manicure back massages
• my new jumpsuits my sister got for me FOR FREE
• my new pouf! ! ! ! ! ! (clearly a materialist at heart)
• going a weird accidental way home — “KEEP IT FRESH”

one thought unrelated to gratitude — is the american dream inherently screwed up? does it lead to selfishness cuz of its very nature? or can it exist in a kind way with everyone achieving their dreams, but not by crushing others and/or the environment.

dignity is inclusion

Library staff need to “understand that charity is not dignity; dignity is inclusion.”

from my library textbook, reference and information services

one more

this tile!

look

• i thought the wikipedia plot description for hereditary was a joke cuz it’s INSANE, but turns out — not a joke
• in other news, will not be watching hereditary
• drinking a hard kombucha that our beer distributor gave me today, rate it a strong C-
• i went down that interior-design instagram-lost-time journey and saw a few bedrooms with bathtubs IN the bedroom and sorry, but what’s that about?
• isn’t this fabric pretty?
• may be (am) obsessed with reath design
• what else, have big assignment due sunday, plus inventory on saturday and sunday, and i’m behind on my reading, so clearly i’m bloggin

that’s just the way we do it

waxed paper wonders via uline

is it possible to fall in love with a pair of pants

also isn’t this shower curtain sort of great