I have no leftovers, even
I have narrow shoulders, but I tend to carry a lot of stuff on them. Recently someone asked me why I always grab the heavy groceries. I don't know, I said, maybe some sort of pride thing, maybe some sort of compensation against femininity. Chicago is nicknamed the city of broad shoulders. My shoulders always hurt because I carry all my stress there, and over the summer Nicola told me it felt like I had a slipped disk in my neck as well, maybe from my bike accident in fourth grade. It would explain a lot, and it would explain better than saying the repetitive motion of crafting a latte was the cause for my ever present, acute pain. Right now they are aching from carrying all the film equipment I checked out over the weekend. I carried it to the bus, the the train, then the airport, then back to the train, and then off the train and in to school, and that shit is heavy. I didn't plan on taking it that far, and back and forth, but Jojo and I were running late to the airport. We missed the flight anyway.
I went to my friends' loft on Thanksgiving, and I brought Jojo and Lale and Ian with me. It was a good time, with good food, but also a little odd; it was the first time Lale met Erin, and there's always the unpleasantness of the loft being filled with cigarette smoke in the winter. In the summer it's better. On Friday Jojo and I hosted our own Thanksgiving. We spent almost $200 on food and probably stole another $100. We cooked for three days; I would stay up until 5:30am after she fell asleep mixing the crust for a pie I'd cook the next morning at 9:00. We made cornbread twice, bringing the first batch to the Thursday dinner. We made three sweet potato pies and an apple pie, and sweet potato biscuits with bacon and thyme in them. We made orange ginger cranberry sauce, and two macaroni and cheese casserole with lots of vegetables in them. We made olive oil mashed potatoes with kale and generous amounts of garlic and parmesan, and roasted beets. And I cooked a turkey for the first time. Rave reviews.
Erin stayed at my house all weekend, and Decklan came over as well on Sunday, to help me shoot my film. We were a little film family, Decklan and Erin and Jojo and I, and it was fabulous. There are three hundred-foot rolls of exposed 16mm color negative film in my bag just waiting to be sent to Seattle for development and processing. This week, now, is for homework before finals, and shouldering new burdens, working them through the stress and the slips in my vertebrae and out the other side, let me be done with them.
I went to my friends' loft on Thanksgiving, and I brought Jojo and Lale and Ian with me. It was a good time, with good food, but also a little odd; it was the first time Lale met Erin, and there's always the unpleasantness of the loft being filled with cigarette smoke in the winter. In the summer it's better. On Friday Jojo and I hosted our own Thanksgiving. We spent almost $200 on food and probably stole another $100. We cooked for three days; I would stay up until 5:30am after she fell asleep mixing the crust for a pie I'd cook the next morning at 9:00. We made cornbread twice, bringing the first batch to the Thursday dinner. We made three sweet potato pies and an apple pie, and sweet potato biscuits with bacon and thyme in them. We made orange ginger cranberry sauce, and two macaroni and cheese casserole with lots of vegetables in them. We made olive oil mashed potatoes with kale and generous amounts of garlic and parmesan, and roasted beets. And I cooked a turkey for the first time. Rave reviews.
Erin stayed at my house all weekend, and Decklan came over as well on Sunday, to help me shoot my film. We were a little film family, Decklan and Erin and Jojo and I, and it was fabulous. There are three hundred-foot rolls of exposed 16mm color negative film in my bag just waiting to be sent to Seattle for development and processing. This week, now, is for homework before finals, and shouldering new burdens, working them through the stress and the slips in my vertebrae and out the other side, let me be done with them.