~Cesario~

Round 2 - Side A

and I get it, but

I didn't boil water until I was in my mid-twenties.

I made breaded chicken nuggets from scratch using an egg wash when I was eleven, and muffins and brownies and cookies and entire birthday cakes for my mom, but I could not make a hot dog.

I was not stupid. I was not lazy or pretending to be helpless. I could not figure out how to boil the water to make a frozen hot dog edible.

It's the lack of recipe. It's not understanding stovetops that are unique to each stovetop. How much fire, what size pot, how much water, what does it look like when something boils???

I took a very very long time to make my first hot dog because I added too much water and too little fire and mistook simmering for boiling.

If you know how to do it, great! YOU WERE TAUGHT AND SHOWN HOW. You might not even have recognized it as teaching. You might have been six years old and watching your mom do it.

The reality is, you had no idea either. Somebody, somewhere, walked you through it.

But what if nobody walks you through it? Nobody walked me through. My mom sped me through entire recipes in her head, offhand, pinch o this dash o that, draw the rest of the fucking owl, and then told me I should know better by x age. How are you supposed to learn like that? I didn't. I wasn't stupid, I could always follow instructions and a recipe. But nobody taught like that. I was on my own.

Y'know how I learned to cook? I helped my cousins when they started getting Hellofresh. A capitalist mealkit service taught me how to cook. As an adult.

Maybe I would have known a lot earlier than my mid-twenties, if just one person in my life had shut up about stupidity and learned helplessness and knowing better and age and humored me enough to just explain it.

Like, yes things should be known but if we don't share knowledge with people then things can't be "common sense".

I struggle cooking, I struggle being able to tell properly when water is properly boiling and how much I should turn my gas on, how much water do I put in for the thing?

14|01|2023

My months of rest and relaxation // day 67

Productivity:

Practiced Irish on duolingo

Updated my reading journal

Worked on Cain's Jawbone

Shopping with my dad (cause he randomly decided to buy a gift for my mom but needed advice)

Worked on my crochet project (it will make me insane, I know it for a fact)

Catched up with the Monstrumana podcast (it's one of my favourite Italian podcasts, each episode analyses the role of a litterary monster, and I just found out they recently published a book !!!)

Self care:

Didn't set an alarm but woke up super early

Read first thing in the morning

Spent the afternoon out with my dad

Cain's Jawbone // day 8

I didn't do much today I'll be honest. I countinued rereading and annotating the same stuff as yesterday, but didn't make a lot of progress)

So the lady stands up and grabs the baby jesus statue from their nativity scene and says, “come along bubbala, you heard the man, we aren’t allowed in here”

“Right,” says the bishop. 

“So,” says the rabbi, “if you do a really great job as a bishop, you might become…what?”

“Well,” says the bishop, “if I’m fortunate, I might become an archbishop.”

“And if you do a really great job as an archbishop?”

“I suppose, someday, I could even be a cardinal.”

“And if you do a really great job as a cardinal?”

“I guess after that I could, theoretically, become the Pope.”

“And if you do a really great job as the Pope?”

“What would you expect me to become after the Pope?” says the bishop, who’s starting to get a little annoyed. “God Himself?”

One night at a nunnery the nuns are woken by loud singing and drunken revelry. They look and see its some Jews celebrating one thing or another just outside.

“You can’t be here!” The nuns say angrily. “This is disrespectful, don’t you know we are the brides of Christ?”

It’s just

Graham Norton is a famous UK gay man he got this backlash for saying “listen to trans people about the trans issues not online celebrities”

The majority of the trans hate group LGB alliance is straight white women

And most of the pushers for homopbic and transphobic laws to be put in place are straight white women

He was literally like "yo don't drag me into this, but if youre gonna insist on it, then I'm gonna direct you to the experts on the topic, since I'm decidedly not an expert." He didn't even say her name. It was the most polite "this isn't my wheelhouse" I've ever heard.

And JKR lashed out at him and accused him of siding with rapists and abusers who hate women, like??????? Lady what the fuck. He literally never even said your name.

Oh she is just absolutely going off. What a queen.