Self Help
I'm looking at the girl in the mirror
Apparently yesterday was Wednesday. Could have fooled me. HOW ARE PEOPLE KEEPING TRACK OF THE DAYS OF THE WEEK? It’s a mystery.
Anyways, I am sitting in an extremely comfortable chair in a waiting area at Kaiser Baldwin Hills (everything is fine) which provides free wifi (glorious) and it occurred to me that today is Thursday. What a concept. (If you don’t understand that reference please watch Russian Doll (Flix) immediately and then come back to this newsletter).
I have also realized that we are almost halfway through the year, and since I am a girl who loves to self reflect, now is the time for me to think about how I want to spend the rest of the year (vacationing, obvs) and what my plans, hopes, and goals are for next year. I am always thinking 5-10 years ahead and 24 hours- 30 years behind but Eckhart Tolle tells us to live in the moment which seems like an impossible dream but a girl is trying.
At the same time, I am always trying to figure out how to get ever closer to that Sainted level of sanity and kindness known as LeVar Burton. But as generous and willing to (hopefully) forget the time he saw me in my octopus boxers as my dog’s namesake is, Geordi La Forge ain’t no fool. I cannot, for the life of me, imagine anyone trying to push LeVar Burton around. HE TAUGHT US TO READ. So I find myself in a constant flux of trying to decide- should I be mad about this or let it go? Should I forgive and try to forget or cut and run? Am I being reasonable or emotional? Or both? Or NEITHER??? Am I overthinking things? That one is easy.
Oddly, no one has written a definitive book about how you should feel about everything and Google is less than helpful in this area. Not to say that the internet doesn’t try to tell you how to feel about everything. Just that they’re all wrong. These are all things I would talk about with a therapist if the one I tried to hire hadn’t ghosted me. So here I am, on my own, trying to become a better person and having no idea if I am going about it the right way. I am probably the only person who has ever had this problem.
Luckily, I do know what you should be doing with your time when you are not overthinking your very existence. See below.
Watch:
Heist (Flix)- Netflix has really been phoning in the true crime lately, and fair enough because I am the sucker who will watch everything they put in front of me. But heist is different. It’s two episodes each about three different crimes in which major thefts of money or bourbon (THE PAPPY HEIST!! LEGENDARY.) are examined from beginning to end, with interviews by either the real criminals or actors reenacting the actual interviews with said criminals. It’s fun and flashy and a good time.
White Lotus (HBOMax)- Connie Briton and people who are not Connie Briton go to a stunning remote resort in Hawaii and somebody dies. That’s all I know but it’s enough to keep me coming back every week to see where this limited series takes me.
How To Become a Tyrant (Flix)- Peter Dinklage narrates a sarcastic but extremely accurate look at the tyrant playbook- the tactics that every major dictator has used to win the throne and keep it. This is extremely fun, even if you, unlike me, do not spend way too much of your free time thinking about how hot Stalin was when he was young. (Google it.)
Listen:
Wormwood: A Serialized Mystery (Podcast)- What can I say about Wormwood? This is an old podcast that feels like an old timey radio show but with modern humor but weird but hilarious but bizarre. I love it so much. I listened to it while driving across the country starting Spread The Vote. I think it’s time to listen to it again. It’s probably the weirdest, best thing I have ever heard.
Screw It, We’re Just Gonna Talk About The Beatles (Podcast)- A podcast about the Beatles.