Emchap's Shit from the Internet 3/15/17 🍠
Y'all, I literally WFH today because it was too cold outside. This is a testament both to my southern inability to deal with weather existing and the fact that winter is awful and I dislike it.
Shit to read
Humpback whales are gathering in big groups and we're not sure why. So that's exciting.
Every Chris Evans interview makes me like him more and more, and this one is no exception. I think he and Jenny Slate broke up and it makes me so sad.
I really liked this article on the costs of traditional heterosexual partnership for women in their 20s (she said like a single lady in her 20s). I think about this a lot! Not being in a partnership allows me to do a lot of shit that I wouldn't be able to otherwise. I have a lot of friends married or partnered with exceptionally excellent men, but even those partnerships have opportunity costs and I have many more friends who are or have dated kinda shitty dudes (myself very included), and at that point you're not really reaping substantial benefits but holy Christ the costs of the emotional labor of dealing with that. I dunno.
Immigration law + the Bachelor. Relevant to to the mailing list's interests.
This article on tech + ladiezzz has a pretty excellent overview of implicit bias training and its failures. As someone who once attended a diversity workshop populated entirely by HR employees and people (mostly women) who were mad someone had just gotten fired, this description of voluntary diversity training rang somewhat true. Plus the article calls devs snowflakes. (This was shared by a male colleague, which warms my heart.)
Thinx seems like a bad place to work. Startups should have HR.
Shit to eat
Get some extra firm tofu from the vegetable market down the street. Rejoice that you've figured out where they keep the tofu so that you don't have to go to Key Foods as much.
Get a red bell pepper and some salad greens and an avocado, too.
Once you've bought them, go home, take the tofu out, and wrap it in paper towels.
Set it between two plates.
Wait 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Cut the tofu into slices or cubes as is your preference.
Press it into breadcrumbs with salt and pepper. Or whatever, you do you.
Pop it on baking sheets in the oven for 30 minutes. Maybe try some parchment paper under it, if you have it? It's nice.
Take half the salad greens, a chopped up half a pepper, and a diced half an avocado. Enjoy the tactile sensation of dicing the avocado and then flipping it inside out to sort of pop the cubes out.
When the tofu is done, put some of it in the salad.
Eat, and be proud of yourself for vaguely adult food decisions.
Shit to listen to
"If I Was President" showed up on my Discover Weekly, and it's soothing. Go listen.
Shit to buy
I got this eShakti shirtdress and oh my god it's great, go order it. It has pockets, the belt is wide, the crepe flows correctly, it's wonderful.
Get this legged TV tray. You can eat dinner off it on your couch and feel fancy, or at least less likely to spill food onto your couch, which is its own kind of fancy.
Are you a woman who buys swimsuits? Target is doing high-waisted bottoms, which they didn't do last year, so, just know that that's a situation that's happening.
Speaking of high-waisted bottoms, I just bought a bunch of these granny pants from Aerie and I give not a fuck, they're amazing, super recommend if every other cut of underwear inexplicably falls off of you while walking. (The lace ones are legit kinda cute, too.)