Yes Toilet Paper is My Exception — Listening: Ivory Black by Oliver Riot. !!! Reading: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (thanks Mom) Thinking: It’s unclear how long it will take for that plastic to completely biodegrade into its constituent molecules. Estimates range from 450 years to never. …

My Toothbrush Prefers To Be In Its Travel Cover — Listening: Matilda by Alt J Reading: Poetry — Lots of it! Voluntarily… Enjoyably… For the first time ever! Thinking: You shall above all things be glad and young/For if you’re young, whatever life you wear/It will become you; and if you are glad/Whatever’s living will yourself become.— E.E. Cummings Dear…

6 Weeks (Today!) Since the Move — Reading: Very good writing Listening: Stressed Out by Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (a Twenty One Pilots cover — it cracks me up) Thinking: “You see, the work of maintaining your life with your own skills was never counted in hours. The days were long and arduous, but there was no…

Hopefully Better Than Writer’s —

Writing on the Wall — Reading: WHO Global Burden of Disease Reports (Pro Tip: Nutrition & Physical Activity Matter) Listening: Amy Winehouse Radio Thinking: “If someday the moon calls you by your name don’t be surprised, because every night I tell her about you.” Shahrazad al-Khalij Hi you, Riding home from Cafe N on my…

I Am Supposed to be Reading An Expensive Textbook — Listening: Sunrise by Norah Jones Reading: Homework?! Currently the aspect of life most foreign to me. Thinking: “You are very lucky if you have someone to whom you can tell about your bad behaviors without them thinking that you are a bad person, because they know that what is inside…

Makin’ Food & Friends — Listening: Death of a Bachelor by Panic! At the Disco. (Or Death of a Salesman, cover by Kevin Stehlin) Reading: Waste — Uncovering The Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart Thinking: “Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is…

and the Misadventures of a Moving Gal — Listening: And It Stoned Me by Van Morrison (“Ooohhh the water”) Reading: Waste — Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart Thinking: “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will…

Real > Ideal — Listening: Soulfight by The Revivalists Reading: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Yes, still. I’m almost done and WOULD RECOMMEND TO A FRIEND) Thinking: “I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it.” Vincent Van Gogh Dear You, My first four days here…