Emchap's Shit from the Internet 09/8/21 🍠
After all my anxiety about it, last week’s oven installation was smooth. The electrician came and put the outlet in (loud and expensive, but also he did make wire come through the walls/hopefully not burn down my house, so like, eh), my neighbors were totally chill about the noise, the oven arrived, and my neighbor helped me install and level it.
It makes cold things hot very fast; I have been absolutely, completely pleased by being able to cook again. Hilariously, I haven’t used the oven much except to make a croissant crust frozen pizza last week, because I am a goblin and my friend Justin’s newsletter convinced me to try it. But the stove takes water from nothing to boiling in 30 seconds when I’m cleaning out my cast iron, and after years and years of shitty rental gas stoves I am so happy to have the thing.
That is this week’s major win; work is otherwise overwhelming, and my cat has picked up a fun new hobby of screaming at me a half hour before my alarm turns on. (Current guess is that he realizes its light is slowly turning on and daylight lamps work on cats just like on people.) I’ve got plans to see various people I’m excited about this week, and nothing is actively bad by 2021 standards, and I’m also fantasizing about crawling into my storage ottoman so that I cannot be disturbed by Requests, which seems not great. (The less grim fantasy is renting a house on the Oregon coast for a month to hide in, which at least is roomier than the ottoman.)
Happy fall, happy new year, let’s all eat apples and honey or banana pancakes and syrup and take a long nap.
Shit to read
I liked this summary of the Mulaney interview, and I hope whoever manages his PR is getting paid well.
I don’t give a single fuck about most sports and yet I am a paying member of Defector because I want the Hater’s Guide to the Williams Sonoma Catalogue to continue to exist.
In case anyone else wanted the details on how Riverdale continues to make Jason’s horrible, bloated corpse happen.
Fridges that look like cabinets are such a tremendously funny concept to me. And of course I liked the politics + kitchen design piece.
For those not following, Brett Goldstein confirmed he is a human man.
I think a Lot about what a version of my life with a differently configured workweek might be. Relatedly.
Shit to eat
Make rice in your rice cooker. If you do not own a rice cooker, buy one. It should be sushi rice but honestly I used jasmine rice and it was fine.
Mix up a quarter cup of rice vinegar, three tablespoons of sugar, and one teaspoon of salt. Pour half into a jar and toss in smashed up cucumbers to sit while the rice cooks.
When the rice is done, pour on the other half, mix it in.
Take the rice and put it in a bowl. Take your pickles and put them on top. Add half an avocado and half a container of smoked salmon.
Enjoy.
Shit to listen to
Spice Girls are the only thing for me at the moment.
This walking tour of downtown Portland.
Shit to buy
Obsessed with this serving bowl.
And this plate.