Emchap's Shit from the Internet 04/27/22 🍠
Portland has spent this whole spring in an absolutely weird weather state; I have seen more hail in the last six weeks than in I think my entire previous life. This year has felt less unmoored from time than the last two, but the weather refusing to be reasonable has made it a little disconcerting to discover that we’re nearly in May. We keep having beautiful individual days followed by gloomy workweeks, and it is making me tremendously sleepy while I loaf around recovering from wisdom tooth surgery.
I was intending to write about how in an attempt to fight the gloominess I bought at-home nail dip powder, but as I was doing so I realized that my laptop was for some reason refusing to recognize its charger, so this now being written in a race against the clock. Mermaid nails will have to wait!
Shit to read
I enjoyed this egg discourse on Defector, a sports blog. I love eggs so much.
I don’t do Peloton any more, but I enjoyed this article about the weird experience of doing the workouts while fat.
The only interview about the twitter acquisition that we need.
I will read all Patricia Lockwood content presented to me.
Like everyone else with a heart, I enjoyed this John Darnielle interview.
Apparently the Long Island iced tea is having a moment.
Shit to eat
Subscribe to a meal kit service and fail to plan appropriately, so that you are forced to cook the thawed ground beef in your fridge.
Late at night, mash up garlic and spices and salt and pepper with the beef and let sit.
Slice up tortilla strips, toss them with oil, bake them until they’re chips. Salt them.
Slice up and rinse a bunch of lettuce, and put it back into the fancy glass tupperware.
The next day, when you are actually hungry again, put the strips of tortilla and chopped up cherry tomatoes and a little vinaigrette and beef and sour cream and guac all together.
Realize that you can in fact enjoy a salad for dinner, so long as it is this specific one.
(Recipe adapted from my own poor planning and Marley Spoon.)