Settling Back In
Is it vacation time yet?
The thing about a month long vacation is that it’s the best and you’re totally happy the whole time you’re away but then you come back home and you’re starving to death at 3am and don’t remember how email works.
The last week has been a period of resettling, and of trying to figure out how to incorporate some of my favorite things about being away into my life- current and future.
Conveniently, my staff has this week off so I only had one week of meetings and Slacks before getting a brief reprieve. It turns out email still works the same and my legs still remember how to run (although not for nearly as long) and I’m still pretty decent at meetings if perhaps a bit less entertaining.
I’ve been eating a lot of cheese and prosciutto, which I don’t plan to change any time soon, and I bought better wine glasses and a Harry Potter dutch oven in which I will make glorious roasts and/or pasta and popcorn- the single girl staples.
I have finally caught up on all of my tv and am rewatching my favorite feminist allegory- Westworld. The day to day is a bit slower than the glorious weeks of tramping about European towns eating all of their pasta and looking at all of their paintings but my 2022 travel calendar already promises to be exciting, and maybe now Peloton will stop emailing me asking me if I’m sure I wouldn’t like to ride today.
Daylight savings, which is total bullshit, has arrived and now is a time for settling in. Winter may never actually come in LA but we do still feel the need to bundle up in slightly longer t-shirts, switch from pools to hot tubs, and put the rosé away for another day. And so, as you prepare to bundle wherever you may be, please enjoy my extremely depressing recommendations below. Don’t blame me. The world is a disaster.
Watch:
Dopesick (Hulu)- And then burn down everything the Sacklers have ever owned.
Roadrunner (Movie)- You’ll cry, you’ll remember why you loved Bourdain, you’ll remember that we never, ever know what is happening in the lives of others, and you’ll want to see the world again.
The Parisian Agency (Netflix)- Because after all of the sadness you’re going to want to watch hot French people sell ridiculously beautiful real estate.
Listen:
The Opportunist (podcast)- The new season features Sheryl Ruthven who is running a literal CAT CULT in Tennessee. I googled. This is a thing.
The Big Steal (podcast)- There is perhaps no nation on Earth more fascinating than Russia but right now it’s just sad and terrifying and awful and this podcast dives deep into how Putin and his cronies are robbing the Russian people blind.
Smokin Out The Window (song)- WHO HURT BRUNO MARS???
Read:
The Man Without A Face by Masha Gessen- This book really helped me understand who Vladimir Putin is and why he is destroying Russia.
Russ wrote another thing! IN WAPO! They continue to publish him which means he doesn’t suck! Read this! And then someone explain to me what is happening in the American job market because I am confused AF.
Rivian has a market cap of $86 billion. Ford is $77 billion. Rivian has delivered 156 trucks. Total. We haven’t learned a thing.