Hi!

today someone at work mentioned minecraft, and i said, "the one with the blocks?"

a childhood friend of mine lives in new york city. the upper east or west side, i don't remember. she owns her home. she bought it with family money.

her father, who has a home in the new jersey suburb where we grew up, is buying an apartment in new york city. he's just... buying an apartment. in new york city. in addition to his primary home in new jersey. he just has the money sitting around to do that.

i have just spent $30 on a bottle brush with replacement heads because i need to be able to wash my water bottles and do not have any tool that can do it.

but like. i have so much stuff. surely one of my stuffs should be able to do this job.

but alas, no. i need a new thing for this job.

it's obscene, really.

i'm trying to buy less stuff bc i am on a budget, but i keep on needing stuff. it never ends.

i recently got a heavier pair of dumbbells bc i am getting stronger and want to keep challenging myself in my at-home workouts. and i got a new kindle because amazon stopped supporting my old one and it was really janky and a pain in the ass to get books onto it. it was usable but barely.

this is amazon's fault for discontinuing support for the old device. but the other things i've bought recently... i just needed them for a specific purpose that no other possession could fill.

it is so disgustingly humid outside.

i need to do dishes.

i need a dish brush to clean my water bottle and i can't find one i like.

i just had an initial consultation with a potential client and i feel like i was really really nervous and awkward!

last week i thought i was going to have to give up working on my business for a little while because it simply wasn't working. and then i got this inquiry out of fucking NOWHERE. so i think my emotions have been thoroughly fucked with.

an opportunity just fell into my lap out of literally nowhere. and i did not want to squander it. but that made me very nervous.

jewish exhaustion:

i saw a post on reddit today (and subsequently cut off my access to reddit) where someone had posted a screenshot of a famous person i'd never heard of calling out antisemitism. the first comment was supportive.

but just as i'd predicted, the second comment was like "wELL AcTuALLy a lot of people are wrongly conflating antizionism and antisemitism so actually probably the antisemitism this person was calling out wasn't antisemitism at all and this is actually a huge problem."

yup. ok, great.

asexual exhaustion:

i listened to the pop culture happy hour podcast where they talked about the movie i want your sex. it sounds very wild and fun. i am intrigued. but i really hated their discussion of it.

the podcast was a bunch of millennials and gen x-ers talking about how gen z are having less sex and are therefore less in touch with like their natural human instincts and are also having less fun. and the takeaway of the movie is that sex is good and fun and the gen z-ers are wrong.

and just like... no. i don't think that's right. they had no curiosity at all about where gen z are coming from in their apparent decreased sexual activities. like. maybe it's ok to not have sex.

i am the last person to judge someone for not wanting to have sex. can we not pathologize it??????

and can we not say that antisemitism isn't actually antisemitism because israel exists and has an extremist government?

there are three six-episode seasons. i am currently on my second viewing of the series, and it is as much of a joy as it was the first time.

it's an australian comedy about a lawyer who does wills and probate. she is coming off a big disruption in her life and career, and she finds herself at this particular law practice because of their lax hiring practices. everyone who works at this firm is bizarre and hilarious in a unique and singular way.

the main character helen is pretty strange herself, but she often ends up being the straight woman because everyone else is even weirder.

the jokes are just so good, and the characters are so endearing and funny. watch it!!!!!!

margo's got money troubles? not a comedy!

widow's bay? maybe! i guess! if you insist! but also, no.

abbott elementary has my full support for the comedy designation, as do hacks and only murders in the building. but some of these shows are just not comedies!!!!

the h in amherst is silent. do not pronounce it.

the park in the middle of the city is called the boston common. singular. it is NOT called the boston commons. EEW. BLECH. do not call it that.

WHAT????????????

wHaT??????

you need to understand. i haven't gotten an inquiry, period, since january. that was a referral.

and i have only gotten one inquiry EVER from a google search.

a facebook post i made came up on google?????????/

WHAT IN GOD'S NAME?

WHAT?

i mean, ok. fine. i'll take it. but it's INSANE.

i need a new lid for my water bottle. i considered buying a new bottle, but that would be wasteful bc the lid is the only issue. the bottle itself is still good.

i looked on the company's website, and they weren't selling replacement lids for the model i have. i contacted them and asked them to make the lids available for purchase. they said they'd send me one for free!!!

wish me luck! i need help. desperately. i need a strategy that will work.

i ended up with a wonderful backup singer who just... appeared. out of thin air. she was so excited about the song i was doing that she asked to sing backup, and i was like "YES, PLEASE DO THAT!!!"

all of her friends were singing along super enthusiastically. so i had incredible support. and it was so fun!!

i did "underground" by ben folds five. i was afraid nobody would know the song, but they did and were SUPER excited about it, i think bc it's not an obvious choice.