going to switch to a three gigabyte monthly data plan to save an extra ten dollars a month. that's not a lot, but it comes with the added bonus that i know i have less data and can't be on my phone as often. i kinda miss my nokia. struggling to connect, that felt natural and what not

did the layout and sent it to the printers. feel proud that i managed to get that out. each new issue should be a lot easier from here on out

have ya'll heard this dorian electra album? it's really good. i recommend

i got back from new york last night. i got there friday and told myself i would buy an aesop deoderant. i didn't. i stopped by the aesop store in chelsea to see them in person. i liked the spray one but kim said i should get the roll-on one. i got neither, but i know that the herbal one is the one i want. i wasn't sure whether i should drop money that quickly but later that day, at the vampire weekend show, i spent twenty-five dollars on an orange hat. considered buying something for my sister but opted not to. which, she messaged me sometime last week asking a question regarding my school's application process, which, like, god, i hope she isn't seriously considering coming here. like, i don't think she'll be miserable, but there are better places and better locations to go to school. and if you're going to get in debt for a private school outside of texas might as well make it someplace worthwhile. plus, i know she can get into a 'better' school

anyway, ezra said that was their largest ever crowd. nineteen thousand he said. first show at the garden. i ran into scrag in the, would you call it foyer, of the place. she was taking pictures of the inflatable frog with her mom. i went over and talked to her briefly before getting in the merch line for the previously mentioned hat. [redacted]. we sat through one and a half openers. the second one did a bunch of talking heads covers. i was fine with the seats i got. they were in the two hundreds but somehow still felt close. at least closer than comparable seats at the wells fargo center feel. stood for the whole show. my throat hurt during most of it but i still sang along cause i'm corny like that. it was nice to hear all the songs i basically memorized during all of my alone time in argentina. like a true culmination of them. a completion. we got prince st pizza after cause the owner of some meme account i like once said it has the best pizza if you're buying by the slice. i took a bite of it in the broadway-lafyatte station and nearly choked. my throat was so dry and irritated i teared up

the next day i convinced kim to go to staten island with me to visit kwynn. which is an accomplishemnt. nyers really hate that place! i hadn't been to her place in about a couple years now, which i realized while sitting on her back patio drinking some punch she made. saw her dogs. pet her dogs. ate some chips. ran my hand through the cold crytalline water in the pool. ate a burger that was basically raw but nonetheless good. i wanted to see emmett in brooklyn later that day but once i got back to where i was staying i knocked out

i'm remembering how kim described a hot chai tea as a blanket. i debated texting others to hang but i realized i had way too little time for everything

then the next day went by really fast. had brunch at a mexican place in the bronx. ordered a cafe de olla which was really good. got a small horchata as i was walking out. stopped by the place next door to buy some hibiscus to make some agua de jamaica later this week. saw emmett. went to muji. was stuck between two shirts and got the bigger one. it ended up being really big and now i'm not sure how to style it and am also kinda regretting not getting the other one, which would've fit a lot better. also got one of those thin cotton bags. basically i impulse bought at muji, twenty minutes before i was leaving. wasn't a lot, but still, didn't need to spend that money. but i never 'need' to do a lot of the things i do. it's my free will. it's me