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Zoe. California. Mostly post complaints and delights from my boring life.

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I’m gonna start pointing to the sky whenever I make a good excel spreadsheet the way christian baseball players do when they get a home run

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I want to clarify that Nate’s birthday is a good thing I’m glad he was born but having a day where I have to subjugate my own desires for someone else’s is VERY HARD FOR ME. I wish to follow MY whims but tomorrow I will have to follow NATE’S. Fortunately that just means I have to get up early to get him a coffee and then we’re going to the book sale and then a fancy pizza dinner. Could be worse. Could be much farther from my own desires.

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Tomorrow is Nate’s birthday but tonight……tonight he went to a concert with his friend and I LIVED LARGE

Love Island UK premier

Drank two paper planes

Spent like two hours making the most INSANE elaborate Caesar salad

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Apparently someone at work refuses to come to me directly with requests because I am too mean to her :(

In my defense I am only mean to her when she comes to me with some half baked question and she takes no ownership of the problem or responsibility for any mistakes!

But I still feel bad I don’t want to be the asshole who knows everything but won’t tell you :(

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I’ve been so pissed off at everybody lately. I’m mad at like 3 people right now! Total grouchy pants!

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Hmmmmm my two good friends who are getting married are both doing their weddings ON HOLIDAY WEEKENDS. Kill me.

I mean at least the one this year is local…but I guess I’m going to have to fly to Chicago next Memorial Day 😭

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….I’m excited to go to work tomorrow because I get to see how my sidewalk is coming along. #mysidewalk

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They’re building a sidewalk for me to be able to walk to work without risking my gd life and I thought it was going to be like….maybe ready for next spring? But they already started and they’re going soooo fast I think it will be done in like 2 weeks!

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californians, consider calling your state assemblymembers in order to object to the current budget proposal stripping Medi-Cal (our Medicaid) from asylees and refugee applicants except in emergencies. also, they’re agreeing to reduce the asset limit for many Medi-Cal recipients back to $2000. That number means that the maximum amount a Medi-Cal recipient who is aged, blind, or disabled can have in the bank at any time is $2000. That figure is obscenely low, and it’s actually lower by about fifty bucks than the amount they’re allowed to get each month in income.* if enacted this policy change will vastly hurt thousands of seniors and disabled people and i’m not kidding. please speak up if you can.

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Sometimes someone mentions one of the six simple machines and then I start thinking about simple machines….

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You know what's wrong with society? It's that now when you go to watch a movie trailer on YouTube there's like a 3 second trailer for the trailer. Like hey we weren't sure if you'd watch the trailer for our movie that you specifically sought out to watch so we decided to show you an ad for the movie before the good ad for the movie. Like give me a fucking break.

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I saw someone on Instagram use a food processor to chop kale and you guys……I’m obsessed. Just removed the big middle stems and threw a bunch of curly kale in the food processor and pulsed until it was small pieces. My life is only just beginning. We’re so back.

I don’t buy pre-shredded kale because I don’t like how it’s dried out and it always has chunks of big stem in it. But lovingly home-shredded kale???? Amazing.

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God I really do feel so bad for bringing an unsuspecting person to see a fucking Boots Riley movie on her BIRTHDAY. I thought she KNEW.

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Ugh what a hard day. Took my friend out for dinner for her birthday and she kind of vented about a mutual friend she’s fighting with, which is basically my worst nightmare and at once point she said something especially bitchy and I cried a tiny bit and I think she noticed because she changed the subject. It was so awkward. And then we went to see I Love Boosters which is already a wild choice but apparently she was not aware of Boot Riley’s ouevre and I was like………OH GOD I SHOULD HAVE WARNED HER. Wild fucking movie.

Feeling both like the outing was painful for her and like it made our friendship worse and like it was expensive for me. A LOSE LOSE LOSE.

And between that and my BFF crying for like an hour this morning about this huge decision she’s making (which I know is good gossip, but it’s also a really sad and hard time for her) I just feel soooooo heavy.

Omg and I just remembered Nate wanted to have a birthday party but nobody can come so he cancelled. Everyone is so fucking sad today.

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My best friend is getting married in a month BUT!!!!!

…….is she???? She’s also sort of considering calling off the wedding???

I think both options would be fine - her hesitation is because her fiancé is a hard no on kids and she’s realized she really wants kids, not because she’s not adequately obsessed with him. But it’s really wild to be planning a wedding and genuinely considering calling it off at the same time!

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Everything I read in May

Wolf Speaker - Tamora Pierce (audio reread)

What can I say it’s a blast!

Expiration Dates - Rebecca Serle

I found this very annoying but I did finish it. I found the twists to be abrupt and kind of dumb. The ending made me sooo mad like why are you even gonna have a prophecy if you’re not even engaging with it properly. Idk. Infuriating for some reason.

Cherry Baby - Rainbow Rowell

Was great but I had a less intense experience reading it than I often do with RR. This book was mostly about (in addition to Kissing which it is also about) what it’s like to be a fat woman and what it’s like to not drink alcohol, which are two things I haven’t experienced and don’t have first hand emotions about and I think that’s why I didn’t get completely swept up in it. It was thoughtful and sad and sweet and good. I always really love how RR talks about Omaha! She loves Omaha.

A Murder in Marylebone - Emily Sullivan

Siiiiiick book I continue to be delighted by how deftly she bops between murder mystery conventions and romance conventions to keep you on your toes without ever betraying the genre reader’s trust. Like you think you’re reading a romance and X will happen but NOPE now it’s a mystery and Y happens. But it’s not a betrayal of you as a romance reader - it’s just a little lane change. (I have also enjoyed books that betray me as a romance reader but it always feels a bit like ohhhhh okay we’re doing real life now :( fine, whereas with this it’s like oh boy we’re doing mystery now :) didn’t see this coming!)

Public Relations - Ariana Rebollini and Katie Heaney (reread)

I love this book so much - it’s mostly a book about having a job when you’re young and hungry, but a little bit a romance about dating a famous person. I think it would be fun as a movie and I enjoyed imagining how I would adapt it. I think it really nails the delightful bafflement of having a crush when you’re young, when someone who seems sooooo out of your league is flirting with you and you’re like ???? but if they liked me they’d do something about it right ???? and like girl….they’re flirting with you about it. Be less dumb. #beenthere

Conversations With Friends - Sally Rooney

I don’t know if I disliked this but I did find it excruciating to read. Like it just made me feel very stressed out and sad. Also I have only read Intermezzo and loved it but then I read this and felt a bit like we were retreading the same material but without the chess. I think that might just be because I’m Quite Square but I’m on the fence about reading more Rooney now.

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is there a movie you thought was really good but you will never watch it again?

Yes

No

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