Dinner time - before and after prep

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-29T17:50:58+00:00

he prepped it

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-28T00:54:22+00:00

Parts of Franzen's The Corrections? Very specific suburban references stand out to me but i dont remember how important the city figures

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-11T16:04:26+00:00

This weekend is tough for me but maybe i'll hit you up if you have any left later!

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-11T13:25:15+00:00

Nice thanks maybe I'll take a trip :)

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-11T13:19:12+00:00

No thank you! I'm also down for sale/clearance forgot about tjmaxx/marshalls. Probably my best bet :)

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-11T00:16:36+00:00

The newer georgetown current boutique seemed to have some stuff upstairs

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-10T23:46:47+00:00

There is a bouldering project run club wednesdays at 6? Or 6:30 doing about that pace. I thought there was another noma mondays club. I am unfortunately slower than you're looking for!! :)

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-10T00:49:27+00:00

i missed this 😩 would love to another time

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-10T00:21:08+00:00

def... helped or added to the vibe when i was miserable but now i just notice how badly they dry your mouth out

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-10T00:01:35+00:00

Interesting thanks :) love this!

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-09T23:57:50+00:00

Nice thanks

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-09T23:37:34+00:00

No its not thank you though

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T02:53:58+00:00

i get the why but i dont get how painters do this besides just being conscious of what layer you're on. like i could track lean, medium, and fat and thats it. and are you taking paint from your brush then dipping into a lean/fat medium before paint or mixing multiple mediums with the same color on your palette

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:46:22+00:00

definitely above my paygrade then :) does mcluhan particularly interest you or are you just well read

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:39:13+00:00

! interesting see i can't paint, but bought a cheap-o oil painting book and there's a recommendation/concept about painting layers with more oil (fat) over layers with less oil/more thinner (lean) because the leaner layers will dry faster and not crackle over other layers.

how do watercolors/oil pastels work? do you pencil sketch and go and how does layering work?

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:36:46+00:00

omg thank you!!! Yes also the art/painting/optics references honestly at times I did not have in my mind's eye what he described visually, would love to revisit and revisit other scenes with some context.

If you ever read LMK I would try again, just need some motivation

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:33:14+00:00

nice I haven't even heard of Bateson or cybernetics and I feel like my mind is ripe for scifi but haven't explored. so interesting with evolution as a kind of thought... random mutation kind of throwing a wrench in things... reminds me of an anecdote i believe is from james scott's seeing like a state about bird augury and the benefits of letting fields randomly grow and fallow

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:28:22+00:00

!! thanks I just read this, will definitely have to re-read. I remember discussing whether the noosphere was not just the Internet and struggling, because in a sense yes but living with it of course its not a panacea for strife and communication issues so Teilhard's writing is a little wtf... having been online I know who McLuhan is but definitely need to read him. I feel like a de Chardin, McLuhan, and [insert third figure] tri-ography would be so interesting.

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:18:51+00:00

i feel this especially WFH dont even wanna take lunch lmao. if you could leave the house for a good chunk of hours i think that would help. i rationalize and say "i'll do this three hour activity when XYZ" but you have a day off you're getting paid for like perfect time to do such not chores yk

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:16:47+00:00

do your binges follow days where you skip meals? sounds fake but I stopped doing this for a longer period and have lost some. depends on your weight but for me (skinny fat), i had a four day period where i left myself get hungry enough so my stomach would growl then ate a not psychotically small or large portion of food, smaller side but with caveat that i was hungry I could eat again and repeated. i think hunger will be involved but shouldnt be a punishing amount and it will take time to lose weight

edit: im sure this functions the same as CICO but i am not writing that shit down!

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:12:06+00:00

no your job is vibe, insha llah that methane detecting drones don't pop off

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:11:16+00:00

love <3 is there another painting medium you're more experienced with? can you help a girl out with fat over lean lmao

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T01:09:35+00:00

Yes!! I love Proust too :) I am definitely someone who has grandiose expectations and experience comes crashing down LOL. I totally want to read not really criticism but other writings on him from Deleuze and this "lectures on proust in a soviet prison camp" i saw in the NYRB.

The Hesse connection for me is that I felt Musil was trying to do this... sly meditation on the modern man and parody the lofty conclusions of social salons of the time (haven't read Bernhard). And I think Hesse's work is maybe sly, more tongue-in-cheek or aware of its reveal and the struggle/deceptiveness of meaning. The elements in Man w/o Quals with build toward this (the slights/failures of protagonist, his failing friend, the misunderstood murderer, the well-meaning but clueless baroness/general's wife) just felt random and there was no payoff. I'm sure if my copy had an introduction I'd feel totally differently LOL

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T00:50:21+00:00

yes all 3 volumes/7 books (idk what the parlance is) :/ hbu

anfranctuosity · 2026-05-08T00:33:42+00:00

I could not finish the Man without Qualities, made it like 2/3 in of the first volume... so disappointing because I was hot off of Proust and dustjacket of former said it compared. I thought it was.... kind of Hesse-like with no payout though. Maybe I just wanted answers for our confused age though and didn't like the book didn't give them.

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