What we lack in corkscrews we have in bloody-minded ingenuity (Taken with instagram)
Sia has some buttercups (Taken with instagram)
SHOW ME HOW TO LIVE MTV RIFF RAFF
Things that make me feel like an adult, in order
- Flossing (my teeth, not just in general)
- Doing my timesheets before the second ‘DO YOUR TIMESHEETS MOTHERFUCKER!’ email
- Picking up dry cleaning
- Cabcharge
- Those few golden, glowing moments when work pays for you to fly somewhere
- Unclenching my body just enough to deal with my tax return
Not Paying Attention to Star Trek: S01E17 - When the Bough Breaks
Okay, here’s what happened: I watched this episode, like, a month ago, thinking I’d write a post on it, then I didn’t get around to it because it turns out I have trouble committing to projects in the long term. I tried rewatching it the other night but fell asleep. This is a problem because I…
Who’s in charge of etiquette?
I really want it to be socially unacceptable to just grab someone else’s computer to use it without proper warning. I’d at least like a ten minute grace period to clear my browser history and cache and sign out of all my accounts. It’s not that I’ve got something to hide, but that shit is intimate.
DRAKE IS RIDICULOUS.
Pro/con
I spent Friday night curled up like a prawn on an emergency room gurney while the Canadian held my hand and quietly read Instapapered news articles on my iPhone out loud to me.
Con: mysterious crippling abdominal pain outta nowhere.
Pro: I had a Canadian to hold my hand and read Instapapered news articles out loud to me.
Con: there’ll be times in your life when you’ll be noodling about at a zero on the pain scale, and then BAM, you’re a ten for no raisin, and it’s scary as shit.
Pro: Dutch emergency rooms are staffed by Dutch people, who are at once brisk, empathetic and efficient.
I’m totally fine, just processing both my enormous good fortune and the inevitability that the meatsack I pilot around this crazy life will one day break down and betray me.
