a girlfriend is a sister that you can have sex with 🫶

last night at a cookout i told a soft-spoken, slightly older woman that i had been off work for two weeks and have to go back on monday and she gently smiled and said "at this point, i'd be crying"

asking the guy who left the seat up in the coffee shop bathroom if he grew up in a barn

learning how to do things incrementally

that’s good advice. i visited my philosophy department a bit after i graduated. when i told my professors that i was working at a used bookstore they all took on pained or wistful expressions and were genuinely happy for me. that moment has really stuck with me and helped me out over the years.

be right back, i have to get my towels out of the drying machine

i’m at constant war with this part of myself

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how many times a week is it ok to have a burger

today the person i look up to at my job told me he considers me his creative partner at work and it made me so happy

this and some milk

i was thinking about this post when i was climbing at the gym earlier

that's all anything is 😌

did my taxes, made another cup of coffee, and took a shower. now i'm going to write in my journal and walk to my gf's. tomorrow i want to wake up and have coffee together, go to the gym, grab a couple things at the store, get a dried pork bun, come home, paint, eat leftover soup, read, and write.

woke up to it snowing outside, sat on the couch and looked out the window, made breakfast, took a walk and got coffee, came home and vacuumed, ate lunch, dyed some paper, started a painting, called my mom, went to the garden store and bought pesticides, came home and made dinner, did the dishes,

you know it's good if it's on tubi

when i worked at the newberry, we had dozens of line a day journals from the 1800s - some days would be like “april 14. a cow broke its leg. had to shoot it. neighbor boy drowned. april 15. eldest child is wed today. april 16. freeze destroyed the crops.”

i started a line a day journal ~3 months ago. small time commitment and easy to catch up on. i often forget things that have happened and lose context of how often i spend time with people/on things i care about, so it’s nice to be able to skim a page and recall a whole month of life.

how it feels when i'm sitting on my couch getting slack notifications on my phone and ignoring my work computer (which is 10 feet away from me)

called my dad earlier and asked what he was up to - he said he was watching tv and construction videos on youtube and i was like “you got the tv on and you’re watching youtube on your phone at the same time?” and he laughed and went “yeah”

this is one of my favorite koans... thank you koth

i’m feeling happy 🙂

millenial who just worked a 12-hour day in saas: i can’t believe i have a job that i am good at and that i enjoy most of the time now. so many years of grinding and suffering behind me.

hundreds of dollars on goods and services/extra twenty dollars on your gas bill bc it's winter

not the angle you asked for but i’d probably do sliced red bell pepper or apple instead of cheese for this one.

just watched like 30 seconds of a qanon video and the visual experience was akin to reading house of leaves

living each day like a dewey subplot

it’s ok that i found a small dried up cockroach under my couch. means my apartment is a hostile environment.

watching an alternate version of myself play 2048 on the bus

work psycho 100