Emchap's Shit from the Internet 02/23/22 🍠
Two exciting things happened for me outside of work this week: I paid some nice people to paint my house and I deadlifted 135 lbs for the first time. (And only my second time deadlifting with the bar!)
The painting is exciting because now all the walls are a) different colors other than “renter beige” and b) no longer have weird holes over all the doors; it’s the first time I’ve paid people to paint a space I live in and I am staggered at how much better at it they are than me. I shouldn’t be surprised, of course—skilled labor is skilled—but holy shit it’s so much nicer and it only took them two days to paint the whole place. And now I am able to live my dreams of having a pink living room!
The deadlift is exciting because 135 lbs means I can now put on grown-up full-sized metal plates on the bar rather than bumper plates, and also because 135 lbs is a large dog or small adult’s worth of shit to pick off the ground, and that’s cool! (I was also able to squat 105 and bench 60, which are not as exciting but are definitely amounts of weight I couldn’t have moved four months ago.) My trainer was like “that’s a big milestone for people!” when I seemed I think insufficiently excited, but I suspect she was confusing “not excited” with “holy fuck I want to die” which is my emotional state for a minute or two after doing anything heavy in a mask. (I mean it would be my stance regardless, but still.)
Work has been stressful and the pandemic is still happening and everything is bad, so I’m taking my joy where I can get it, and right now that’s in concrete physical change. I can lift a heavy thing. My walls are a different color. Things could be worse.
Shit to read
Enjoyed this piece about guards at a museum serving as curators for a new exhibit.
More people should coparent with friends idk seems more stable than the other options.
In case you want to be very mad at Japan and some dipshit at Harvard. (cw sexual assault, it’s a piece about comfort women.)
I too enjoyed the wikipedia high five photo family.
Shit to eat
Buy cottage cheese.
Put a third of the container of cottage cheese into a bowl.
Toss in some jam.
Lastly—this is important—sprinkle on a pinch of salt. It’s worse without the pinch of salt.
Enjoy, feeling slightly like Miss Muffett, curled up in bed.
Shit to watch
Please everyone send me your Love Is Blind feelings.
Shit to buy
This cable cover system which I didn’t even know was a THING.
Cottage cheese, see above.