Emchap's Shit from the Internet 11/1/17 🍠
Today was my last day at my job, and it was lovely and sad and our lead-engineer-if-we-had-lead-engineers
showed up to my goodbye Zoom call and various people made me an SSO witch goodbye card that I haven't read because if I did so I would cry and just in general it was great/sad.
I love the people I have worked with at this gig so tremendously much, and they are one of the more influential parts of my adult life so far and I feel so lucky to have known them.
Tomorrow/later today I am going to get on an Amtrak to DC and I am almost certainly going to cry.
Relatedly: I need to pack.
Unrelatedly: I got a haircut at Devachan yesterday and there was a brief moment where I was unabashedly smokin' and it's goofy but I now recommend this to everyone the end.
Shit to read
Maria Bamford talking about love and what it is to deserve it is something we all should read.
I loved this article on ethical taxidermy and what it is to consciously walk with death. (I sent this to someone this week and was told that I seem to enjoy a lot of taxidermy content, which.)
I am obsessed with this woman's outfits/the series in general.
Meta-article on decorative gourd season, obvi go devour. My dad and I will still mutter, "it's fall, fuckfaces" at each other.
This article on the lost children of Tuam is wonderful and worth reading and makes Ireland sound like poison.
I enjoyed this exploration of illness chic.
I have no idea if I'm pretty; I enjoyed this article about the perception of self.
Neopets is how I learned HTML and this article is great.
What to do if your BFF is hotter than you is a gentle and lovely article about a thing about which I am myself hella sensitive.
Shit to eat
On your last day of work, drink three Blue Moons in relatively rapid succession on an empty stomach.
Realize, suddenly, "fuck, I am drunk."
In a brief, weird panic, forage.
Find a sack of Reese's peanut butter cups in the work freezer because you work at an adult day care for tech dorks.
Accidentally upend the Reese's into the fridge in an attempt to extract them.
Grab three.
Carefully peel and eat them the good way (biting them in half so you get to dislodge the peanut butter from the casing at your leisure).
Grab another drink.
Shit to listen to
I have a now-former coworker on a trip out to the Grand Canyon and I'm enjoying following along on his Spotify playlist as he does that. This song showed up there. I'm listening to it in his honor.
Shit to buy
A cocktail at BlackTail.
That is frankly it. Things are good. Go!