welcome to the penultimate episode of this season of my 'what i made in my ceramics class' series. this would be my fourth wheel-throwing class, the third retake with this instructor/day/time. it was during this class that the studio experienced a kiln malfunction which impacted some of my work but i learned a lot from the experience.
read more »this year i'm hosting friendsgiving and for the first time in years i managed to order a tofurkey roast in time. i spent $39 for it to be shipped in a cold pack quickly. the night it is supposed to be delivered i get a call from a man in a high rise a mile away from me. he says my boxes was delivered to him and that he'd leave it at the front desk for me to get...
read more »this was one of the, maybe, 4 weeks in the year that i felt really good physically and mentally together. i was hoping that using my little energy to go out to inspiring spaces would help me get up to a few more good weeks. we'll see, i'm hopeful after this last one!
read more »this week was one of those "do the bare minimum" kinds, where i'm feeling super disconnected because of a post-menstrual depressive episode. thanks to the work i've been doing at setting routines and saying "yes" to things, i had lots of things to do to try to reconnect with myself besides rotting on the couch.
read more »i sit here with my entire core sore after i went to aerial yoga on friday. upstairs that night was a weird ass scientology leader conference. that's life in the city, you can be doing crunches while hanging upside down in a silk hammock and just a stairwell away some old people are plotting some kind of sinister shit. anyway, welcome to my weekly retro!
read more »i'm drinking a baja blast as i write this, unsponsored and unbothered after 2 nights in a row of sleeping through without waking up to heartburn and a sneeze and cough attack. pumagreg is cone-free, i am symbolically cone-free, and writing this retro has helped me remember what a crazy week i managed to function through.
read more »as i write this, i'm watching pumagreg cleaning himself for the first time in a week, having just removed his cone. what a feeling that must be for him, regaining the ability to act on his animal brained instinct of cleaning his ass. i wish some of the men in my gym had that instinct for wiping the equipment they use down when they're done.
read more »this past week was full of endings and beginnings, and reflections of past cycles. there's no light without dark, life without death, blah blah blah welcome to the retro.
read more »welcome to the latest in my *what i made in my ceramics class* series. this class was my 2nd time taking this wheel-throwing class because the time was convenient and i really like the instructor. because there were lots of summer camps going on and a kiln malfunction, i had to wait longer than usual to get these pieces home but i finally did today.
read more »this week was the 2-year anniversary of me quitting my corporate job and i spent a significant portion of it toeing the line between calm and an absolute fucking meltdown over getting an ssh key to authorize me into one of my git repos. for a moment it felt like literally nothing changed, but ultimately so much has. welcome to da retro.
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