Emchap's Shit from the Internet 07/28/21 🍠
This is my final one of these as a full-time LA resident (for now, at least!). My house is a box fort and the movers come on Friday. I’m excited for what’s ahead and sad about leaving and the normal stew of emotions that accompanies a big life change.
When I moved out here, it was because I was specifically getting out of New York, which I mostly hated. Moving out is significantly less clear, since I really like LA. I have had a fucking great time out here. It’s a ridiculous city and the people are are fucking phenomenal and there are so many lovely buildings. Everyone who convinced child-me that I’d think LA was shallow and I’d dig NYC’s commitment to the life of the mind can kick rocks; smooth brain chill vibes rules even if fire season doesn’t.
Faced with the prospect of upending my life again I have found myself listless and sad and stressed; I keep telling people that I feel like a lizard who’s upset that my terrarium rocks were moved, except I’m the dumbass who did it. It’s just that two pointy spidermen meme except the spidermen are just me and my fucking hindbrain who doesn’t like it when things are different.
Onwards and upwards and hopefully on out to the Oregon coast when I get a chance and own a couch again.
Shit to read
Interesting to me as a One Medical customer—I hope it works out.
This entire piece about a Parkland shooting survivor whose dad now believes the shooting to have been a hoax fucked me completely up.
This honestly comforted me, re: delta variant.
This seems about correct, and is also how I learned that Simone Biles also was in the foster care system. She seems great and I hope she’s okay.
Shit to eat
Order four breakfast tacos from a place up the street because all your kitchen supplies went into a box a week ago.
Get drafted into a meeting where you’re mostly there as backup.
Wave, go camera off, and fully fucking inhale them.
In between tacos, camera on, answer a question about search syntax, and back into the void, you gremlin you.
Shit to watch
This Civil War Ghost bit is very funny.
Shit to buy
Just bought this hat, as a woman whose head is best described as “girthy”.