I worried that I would end up sounding like a woman when I started regularly speaking Japanese -- in the end, I don't think I sound like anything at all... Proust is definitely not a long tweet, but if you don't like those first few pages, you're not going to like the rest of it. I was hooked around two pages in; one of those cases where the aspects I like the most are exactly the parts others find obnoxious.

i can only understand japanese if it is high-pitched girl's voices speaking

@balckwell ... maybe i'll try proust again in a few years. i really want to Get It and i keep hoping that i will then failing

@suboptimalism i can't imagine why that may be the case

There are two types of people: those that put zero thought into whatever drinking vessel chances into their life, and those who are incapable of feeling the warm, comforting surrender of contentment (I assume that's what it feels like)

Congratulations on the house! And on finding a suitable water bottle.

congrats on the house! i know you say you don't like double walled bottles but out of all the bottles i've had (and ive had a lot) i've enjoyed Hydroflasks a lot because they can keep my water at a cool temp in 100+ F weather

I also bought a house earlier this year and have only recently stopped obsessively checking my mortgage account all the time for no reason, as if the more I check the faster it's going to go away.

Sonder: "the feeling one has on realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as one’s own, in which they are the central character and others, including oneself, have secondary or insignificant roles"

So relate to being bad at houseplants. Even when they die and get crispy, their crispiness just becomes a part of the decor for months until I realize that I'm living in a dead plant graveyard. My brain just doesn't notice them, and expects them to be self sufficient. I do love having plants, though.

@limovars -- sometimes i feel overwhelmed with that feeling when i look at the street from a condo... each of those car lights standing for one full life... so many of them flowing through endlessly...

@oopsiedoodle get a pothos!!!! lol