what are you into right now?

it was 90 degrees in boston yesterday! 85 today. high is 93 tomorrow. still summer here imo

they got scientist degrees and everything

I totally backed that travel jacket, before I even got into this! I'm getting the hoodie.

Marcos, I've looked at spirit, and they are the devil - I don't think their super cheap flights are worth the stress of flying with them. They're infamous for delays, which is just a fucking nightmare to me.

yea i am little nervous and was hesitant, but

1) i'm flying by myself, not w/ my kids, so that's a relief and i can tolerate higher stress flying w/o them
2) i got an early morning flight on the way there, so hopefully delay less likely
3) i'm a little concerned about the return flight which is at the end of the day and a delay would prob mean flying out the next day, but then my folks could just pick me up and i could stay at their place

$86 was too good to pass up but we'll see how it goes

Yeah I agree, in your situation it's worth the risk.

credit card rewards points and finding ways to amass so many of them (just1n3 let me talk to you all abt them!!!!)
a cute boy who is eerily same-wavelengthy as me and is like SO excited abt me
planning a trip to a theme park next monday w/ said boy to ride all of the roller coasters together
30 Rock (I have seen this show a ton of times but only in passing and have never gone out of my way to watch it, goodness gracious it is wonderful)

STEVIE TAKE YOUR CC POINTS TALK TO ANOTHER THREAD

(moratorium is still mostly in place btw)

into:
not eating carbs
playing tennis on Tuesdays
the first few Ice Cube records
scrabble
saving money (and trying to figure out ways of making more)
keeping cool in the NY summer
so, popsicles

what are some of yr favorite carb-replacement strategies or foods that you rely on to satisfy you the way carbs did?

not dominique, but i've been trying the low carb thing for a couple months, and carbs only satisfy for a short time anyway - fat and protein will fill you up and keep you satiated. i was kinda surprised how easy it's become in general, once you accept you can't have potatoes/bread/pasta/rice every day of the week (which i have always typically thought of as the base of a meal).

it's a great excuse to never cook - i just eat big simple salads with chicken and vinaigrette, maybe with a hardboiled egg or some cheese.

caffeine and uh, nicotine are your basic anti-carbs

have always had coffee in the morning, but these days just eating a lot of salad, chicken, steak on Sundays, almonds. I cook a stir fry with lots of vegetables and whatever meat I want. I never drank soda much, and basically just cutting out stuff like sandwiches, pizza, burritos, etc. It's not like I'm eating NO carbs (still eat fruit, hummus, carrots), but I'm finding there is stuff I like with small amounts.

Jack Reacher novels. All of them.

:D

do you have moments where you're like "please never describe women's clothing again"

Yes if by "moments" you mean the whole book and by "women's clothing" you mean women. But other than that annoying feature I've been reading them compulsively.

exactly

Super Mario 64 (playing on my laptop w an Xbox 360 controller)

The idea of winter. I wanna be cold. Heat wave after heat wave has me wanting to move to the arctic circle.

^^^ otm

i'm into podcasts, mostly ones about people's stories/lives bc i'm quite voyeuristic, but some true crime as well. idk why i never got into them before - now i listen to them all day long, at work, while i'm doing chores, when i'm at the dog park. i get so much more work done!
current faves:
the mystery show
here be monsters
everything is stories
invisibilia
how to be a girl
death, sex and money

radishes
ipad games
edward tufte
public transit
lurking on the neighborhood transportation committee email list and checking out all the pdfs of new development plans
hiring bright kids fresh out of college full of eagery beaverness, with minimal institutional bad habits
thinking about what kind of curriculum I'd teach if I could build my own tufte-esque cottage industry
observing my kid's improving architectural and drafting skills

Babycord jeans in vivid coloured patterns.
Finding a faster way of making jean jacket type jackets in various fabrics.
Tartan jeans.
Long sleeve jersey tshirts.
Woodturning though I need a way of practising frequently.
Peter Capaldi as Dr Who, hope he gets a better companion soon.
Les Ambassadeurs
the early Grateful Dead.
Gato Barbieri early 70s stuff.
John Martyn early 70s.
Tim Hardin

Tartan jeans

WHERE

http://imgur.com/bfDX0HD

Mark Lombardi

Daniel Bachman
Taylor Swift
interior painting
canning tuna
steam juicing the grape crop, we got 80 quarts this year
that Miles Davis mono box set
growing legal weed http://trichome-world.com/stages-of-a-trichome/

oh and also the 33 1/3 book on 20 Jazz Funk Greats <3 <3

fresh green beans
montaigne on my kindle
thomas hobbes' amazing prose!
horrendous
new jeans
new pillow
new pillowcase
a.d.a. connie rubirosa

Tartan jeans where?
>
getting fabric, cutting around an old dismantled pair of cord jeans, sewing while making much more fitted.
So, homemade. Not that difficult but taking more time than I'd really like.
Also would be happier if it wasn't viscose/poly material but looks like main alternative is wool.
Should have a pair in blackwatch done soon.

& have been wearing 3 other tartans over teh year, most recent of which was teh Gordon dress type that you see on the 1st love lp
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/4b/a5/ae/4ba5aefcff8970331626d2c4bccc1a38.jpg
sleeve as well as a couple of the Standells ones

mine look like this
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t-ET4KoIdK4/VdL2SjFeoFI/AAAAAAAAAG4/Z_3AgiLlAKE/s1600/paisley-dobe-gordon-dress-jeans-slight-right.jpg

and I did these earlier in the year
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0U_v0SEp9GE/VdL1j7mDZkI/AAAAAAAAAGY/3GkRwlIh14g/s1600/exploded-paisley-cowboty-shirt-red-tartan-jeans-turned-front-headless.jpg

Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine, Max Richter's Sleep, City Pop/J-Pop
Peabody's Control of Pipeline Corrosion by A.W. Peabody
Google Earth
Ohm's law & chemistry

"change the sign change the side" always rings through my ears when I see Ohm's Law

lattes! they are so good!

Underworld
Watching Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman w/ my boo
apple cider + caramel vodka

bill orcutt
quilted carhartt sweatshirtt
baking cakebread
clean apartment
quiet hour on campus quad after teaching
a nice new 'tight reading copy' of my favorite book

black embroidery on black fabric
joanna newsom
this library book about murder ballads
the good wife
roasting everything

cleveland cavaliers basketball
kombucha
rap music
november, weather getting cooler
weed
my two boys
sweatshirts
curly hair
my new-ish glasses

frozen lemonade
steph curry / gs warriors
devin townsend
my oldest son wanting to play catch all the time
restoring an early 80s super chexx bubble hockey table that i just bought
trying to get sw0le

lentils for lunch
keepy uppy badminton
drrrrresses

mountaineering movies
chemistry and corrosion
wrangler button up shirts
and these!!!
https://www.lucchese.com/shop/boots/colby/GY1526.73

lentils for lunch otm

Google Cardboard (turn yr mobile phone into a surprisingly great VR headset for like $15-30, omg, too cool)
smoking weed w/ my boyfriend
having a boyfriend and doing/planning things w/ him
Comme des Garcons
wearing all black

DID YOU HEAR THAT ILX POSTER mh I SAID WEARING ALL BLACK

HI

still my boyfriend
watching Breaking Bad with my boyfriend
my new retro ivy-style college sweater
hanging framed things on my walls for like the first time in my life (i have been framing things for years but have never gotten around to hanging them, so silly!)
nerding out abt coffee (just upgraded my rig w/ a fancy grinder, a fancy pour-over thing, a fancy carafe, a fancy gooseneck kettle)
making smoothies again w/ my new blender
thinking of things to juice w/ my new juicer

my new wool coat
walking out in the cold in my new wool coat
winter casseroles
star wars tfa
magical realism fiction
oscar isaac

VG!! What magical realism fiction are you enjoying?? I dabbled in this a year or two ago and made it halfway thru One Hundred Years of Solitude and then gave up and read a few Borges short stories and that was that.

I thought it would be much more joyful and whimsical than it actually was :(

One hundred years of solitude is certainly not joyful; Borges is at best sardonic

iced coffee from this place downtown
rainy afternoons
sandie shaw covering "hand in glove"
taking photos
lawrence wright's "the looming tower"
children's books by edward eager
my new peanuts desk calendar