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from one pile i have found old university lecture handouts / meningitis vaccine pamphlet / a christmas card from my postman / business card from an indian restaurant in bristol / the results letter from my pap smear / lots and lots of birthday cards / doodles on scrap paper when iโm bored at work
Mar 15, 2024
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- I keep misc. 2d ephemera in large paper boxes. early on it was shoeboxes so thatโs childhood-college (plus the โe-files my dad has kept of my earliest paper days) and now i have a bigger photo box and will soon graduate to another. this is post-it notes left by my husband, movie ticket stubs, programs from exhibitions or shows, wristbands, business cards; receipts, etc. all loosely organized but sort of layered like the starts of a landfill or rock formation to be sifted layer by layer during times of reminiscence.
- photos in the envelopes i get them at the print shop labeled with the time. these are in a large fabric box. photo strips are in a small plastic box but regrettably unlabeled (if you like photo strips, condition yourself early on to date them because you will thank yourself later on)
- birthday/christmas/etc cards in a pokemon happy meal box, will need to get another
- written recipes (from myself or others) in my recipe tin
- i keep important legal documents and passport in a fireproof envelope my mom got me for christmas a few years ago. she had a nightmare about fire and got everyone fireproof envelopes.
- boring tax shit in a plastic box in case i need it
- my marriage certificate in a silver plated scroll
-lately iโve been keeping a scrap journal of notes, recipes, sketches, schematics, clippings, etc. really no rules no boundaries shut any time i need a piece of paper i add to it or glue small things iโve accumulated in it and i think ik do this going forward. i also add any stickers i acquire to it.
May 20, 2025
An umbrella that got me through many a stormy day in my rainy college town. A book set in 1870s Yucatan, reminding me of the history of the places I visited in April when I was ignorant of Mexico's past. A notebook full of Substack drafts that might never turn into essays. A notepad I use to keep track of my tasks at the office, ans topics to research when the work is done but the day isn't. A keycard to an office building full of finance bros, where my humanities background sticks out like a sore thumb. A single bandaid for the inevitable papercuts that come your way when you write all your first drafts on paper. A pen I stole from my previous job as a small compensation for every time I was undeservedly yelled at. A stack of train tickets from 2007 that I found at the bottom of a pile of forgotten files that I couldn't just throw away. All thrown together in a tote bag from a Laotian charity that provides prosthetics to victims of the cluster bombs that still go off 50 years after the US dropped them.
Sep 8, 2024
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just cracked my knuckles, dusted off my keyboard and now iโm ready to curate with my own unique collection of experiences and worldviews
May 17, 2025
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May 29, 2025
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I love basing my friendships around things I like to do, and having an allocated person to do that with, also having a process / routine that this thing happens around. Like a tiny religious procession of two.
E.g. : one friend is my coffee and a walk friend, another is a person I only exclusively hang out with to eat tacos once a month, a third friend to only go to cinema screenings with, another friend will join me for exercise classes and we usually get dinner afterwards.
I like this approach to friendship in general because itโs less pressure to have to come up with new things to do, and if you stagger time well then you always have things to do and people to see.
Aug 20, 2024