Emchap's Shit from the Internet 09/14/22 🍠
After spending two weeks accomplishing maybe two of the 18 things I planned on accomplishing with my time off, I’m back to the grindstone at the new gig. So far, so good, except that I have had 7am meetings for the last three days, which does high key make me want to die. (I am told it will only be like this for a little while, so fingers crossed.) Though the new place is about the same size as the old, it’s much older, and I’m curious to see what being in a slightly less startup-y environment will be like.
The one thing I did during my time off which was a real lifestyle improver (aside from playing a tremendous amount of Animal Crossing and quitting twitter and finally reading several books that had been piling up) was taking two jumpsuits I loved but which had fully split in the thighs into the tailor to see if they could be fixed. I was assuming it would be a no go, but it was totally fine, took a week, and for the price of one new, worse jumpsuit, I had two beloved ones back in the rotation. As someone who periodically does my own, bad alterations, it’s a pleasure to see the work of someone who’s actually good at it (and, to be fair, not working on a 20-year-old Sears machine).
We had wildfire smoke the weekend before I started the new gig, which put a damper on my plans to get high in a park, but I did discover a new-to-me dive bar which serves quesadillas, and I’m not mad about that.
Shit to read
I enjoyed this list of just a bunch of stuff you can do to your house for not much money and without losing your security deposit. (I spent today buying a new toilet seat. Adulthood!)
Also enjoyed this old profile of Jolie Kerr that I found while looking for her suggested list of weekly cleaning tasks.
I read my boyfriend this list of documentaries everybody should watch and he refused to see any of them because they’re all about horrific crimes, but they do seem very interesting.
I will never, ever stop enjoying it when people write dunks on Facebook’s stupid metaverse shit.
Elyse Myers is very charming!
I love Catherine Cohen’s advice column. Bonkers and enjoyable every time.
Shit to eat
Go to a dive bar
See that they have a quesadilla on the menu
See that it comes with sour cream, a perfect food
Order it
Enjoy with a purity of focus you will enjoy at almost no other time of your life
Shit to watch
It’s very comforting as someone whose head is just made of muscle tension to watch these head massage ASMR videos.
Shit to buy
I finally bought an air purifier after the most recent round of fire smoke. Curious if it makes me less miserable; the fire days are awful for my brain.
I used a little bit of my new office stipend to buy this very stupid but useful-for-me headphone stand + cup holder so I stop knocking beverages onto my keyboard.
And I got tiktok influenced into an underdesk treadmill, so we’ll see if I become That Girl.