This week I started reading Miranda July’s All Fours, and it’s given me the craziest dreams. I texted one to my fiance and his only response: long dream! Ouch.
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Passions this week include Stephen King, Philz, and Dominos.
If you start reading a Stephen King book, this will be your new Instagram. I started reading Holly, and if I had to go somewhere in the middle of the day and pause the reading, I’d just be thinking how long it’d be til I got back to reading. Felt like a nerd, but a SCARED nerd, which is TRUE NERD. If you’re a nerd and you’re walking around proudly, sorry to say you are not a nerd. I’m not sure what you are!
I am leaving California in two months, and I will say, I’ll miss it a little bit. There is sun here, and sometimes you’re driving and you forget you’re driving, not in an unsafe way, but in a way that feels like you will never not know that feeling if you’re driving in New York. There’s also Philz. Every coffee drink there is confusing. The baristas ask you to taste it in front of them and then you have to like it’s a fine wine at a restaurant. It’s always slow. And yet, I can’t get enough. If I drink one, I feel better for the rest of the day.
Also in California there’s Dominos. There’s Dominos everywhere, I know it’s a national chain. But the one time I ordered Dominos in New York, I was ashamed and afraid to throw the boxes away in the apartment recycling, for fear someone would see what I’d done. Here, I eat it with abandon. The stuffed cheesy bread! The spinach feta thin crust pizza! It’s got alfredo sauce on it! The pizza tracker on the website! Something’s wrong with me.
And now a few from the readers…
Brett: “I'm passionate about postcards. They're nearly as fun to send as to receive. They can be gorgeous art or tacky local nonsense. They can signify an important personal journey, or a dumb surprise for a laugh. Cover a piece of paper in 59 1-cent stamps and the post office has to be complicit in your time-wasting joke!”
Cameron: “I travel for work, and my passion has become taking photos for people trying to take a selfie at tourist locations. I can tell they really want a good pic, but don’t want to ask anyone, and that’s where I come in with a “want me to take that for you?”. They are always so grateful and I’m over here like hey I am at the Space Needle alone, please give me something to do with my hands! We all win. It’s really been a wholesome way to light up the loneliness of the road.”
Ann: “My passion is putting exact postage on a letter or package. I sent a two ounce letter to my mom yesterday. First, I had to look up what a forever stamp goes for these days. Second, I had to look up what it costs to send a 2-ounce letter instead of a regular 1-ounce letter. I did a little subtraction then pulled out my stamp collection. I jigsawed a forever stamp, two ten-cent stamps, and two two-cent stamps in the corner. Voila! Not a penny wasted, plus look at all those cool stamps. Stamps are professional stickers for grown ups.”
If you have a passion, you can reply to this email with 1-2 sentences about it.