In which Scott came home for lunch and told me it’s now confirmed that we can actually move this weekend. Today: pack. Tomorrow: pack. The day after: pack and clean. Saturday: MOVE. RENT A TRUCK AND MOVE TO UPTOWN. Sunday: unpack. Monday: unpack. Tuesday: drive to Chicago for a 3-day Amma program. I blew off […]
[NOTE: I wrote this garbage years ago. It was a stage in my development as I learned to understand something I didn’t. I’m now ashamed of most of it, but I choose not to delete it because it’s proof that people can and do grow and change over time. So if someone you know still […]
In which many exciting changes — a move, a job change, and not one but two opportunities for travel — are afoot! The lease is up here, and while this apartment has some incredible amenities — such as southern exposure, a gas range, amazing cross-ventilation, and a wonderful view of a park with a pond […]
In which I rode my bike to work, and four-and-a-quarter hours later I rode it home again. My apartment is technically only six blocks from work; it’s just that they’re such gigantic, industrial blocks that those six blocks actually equal 1.2 miles. (A mile usually contains 17 typical city blocks, that’s how big these blocks […]
In which I’ve been tracking what I eat. According to the BMR Calculator, to maintain my weight I should be eating 1,920 calories per day. To lose a pound a week, it should be 1,420. Out of curiosity, without doing any kind of dieting except avoiding white bread, I tracked what I ate this week. […]
In which there’s a process more than a recipe. A pudla [ pooda, poodla, puda, chila, cheela, chilla ] is a savory pancake made from lentils, rice, and/or flour. They’re cheap, easy, delicious, and I think it’s weird that I’d never even heard of them until last year. (Apparently they’re a breakfast food in India, […]
In which I think people are being a bit irrational. So, a pudgy British comedian calls out this chick trophy hunter on social media and, like anything that ever gets traction these days, for no apparent reason it absolutely explodes all over the place. In the last couple of days I’ve seen dozens and dozens […]
In which there are instructions! Step 1: Don’t have mint tea for, like, a few years. Not because you’re against it or anything, but just because you don’t happen to. Step 2: Move to Minnesota and catch a cold. Step 3: Wait a week and buy a box of mint tea. Stick it in the […]
In which it was eerily quiet. We stepped out onto the back porch of our building for a smoke. “Wow,” he said. “You hear that? So quiet.” We listened. Absolutely no traffic, none. All the lights on the other side of the park were green. No traffic on the streets, no traffic on the interstate […]
The death of expertise is a rejection not only of knowledge, but of the ways in which we gain knowledge and learn about things. It’s a rejection of science. It’s a rejection, really, of the foundation of Western civilization: yes, that paternalistic, racist, ethnocentric approach to knowledge that created the nuclear bomb, the Edsel, and […]
