Lists

No. 41

Hello and welcome back to Trail Mix. Honored to have you here.

No review of my time on the east coast because I decided that nobody cares and I also have short term memory loss and already forgot what I did. Instead, I have a lineup of LISTS.

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LIST OF MY CURRENT MICRO OBSESSIONS

• Sitting in my apartment, just in general

• I’m not comfortable sharing the number of times I’ve listened to the specific time stamp (4:20 to 4:41) of Runaway by Kanye West. Let’s just say it a lot. Like the only thing I listened to for four days straight a lot. (Still in my Kanye Bangers era.)

• The way Pusha T says “haha” at 3:50 of Runaway by Kanye West

• Believing that KT tape can heal bone fractures

• Taking the bus everywhere

• Taking the bus even when it’s inconvenient for people watching purposes

• Rottweiler dogs

• This playlist

• Boba-flavored mochis from Costco (see below)

• OLIPOP vintage cola flavor

• Refusing to plan meals in advance and walking to 1.2. miles to Whole Foods every single evening after my run

• Forcing Rory to watch Emma Chamberlain videos until he leaves the living room

• The heart hands emoji (for ironic purposes)

• Replying “are u ok” to insane takes from strangers on Twitter

GUEST MICRO OBSESSION

• The way Lizzo says “CE-hoes” in her new song GRRRLS, submitted by Elliott Forde.

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LIST OF MICRO HATREDS

• The freaks who parade around SF on loud motorcycles every single day

• Our neighbor dog Monkey who sneaks up to his front door to scare me by barking loudly when I come up the stairs

• My across the hall downstairs neighbor who has been giving me bad vibes lately

• The fact that the Lyft bike I used to travel 1.2 miles the other day cost me $6.50

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LIST OF BEARS

• A must watch:

Cozy Cowboy @cozyCowpoke

Moose vs Grizzly

• This DALL-E image of “a photo of a confused grizzly bear in calculus class, frontal view, paws on head, blackboard in background, bokeh, detailed, golden hour sunlight.”

• Incredible bear cub TikTok shared with me by Sammy Marrus. [Insert heart hands emoji]

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LIST OF PLACES/THINGS/COMMUNITIES(?) RORY AND I HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM

Thank you to Olivia Marcus for suggesting this idea [insert heart hands emoji]

• TSA pre-check (Rory)

• Glassdoor (me)

• Nextdoor (me)

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LIST OF THINGS THAT I (USED TO) EAT LIKE EVERY DAY THAT I THOUGHT WERE GLUTEN FREE BUT APPARENTLY ARE NOT

• Black licorice

• Mochi

• Soy sauce

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LIST OF PEOPLE WHO I THINK ARE UNWELL RIGHT NOW

• Anyone working for the U.S. federal government

• A large percentage of people I ride the bus with

• Myself, in regards to my daily screentime

• Whoever is in charge of setting domestic flight prices

• The person on Turo in PDX who is charging $500/day to rent their Tesla model 3… grow up

• Literally anyone on Reddit at any time

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LIST OF SF RESTAURANTS THAT I BELIEVE ARE OVERRATED

• Nopalito

• Beretta

• Zazie

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LIST OF RANDOM NOTES IN MY NOTES APP THAT I WILL ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN

Based on the date, I believe I was in London at this time. Either this was playing on the radio in a taxi or I dreamt this. Either way, I’d listen…

I think Rory and I were thinking of names if one day we became motel owners.

No context needed, I stand by this.

Rory woke up and this was the first thing he said.

We were on a long road trip and must have been like… “it would be much better if we had a toaster in here.” …

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LIST OF RORY’S RECENT CANCELLABLE OFFENSES

• Rory doesn’t know who Stuart Little is.

• He’s never had Coca-Cola before. Like, ever.

• He keeps working at his office until like 2 am and then coming home and disturbing me while I sleep.

• Rory picked me up yesterday and this was the first thing I saw in our car:

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GUEST CANCELLED CORNER

• Jack Herrera is cancelled for literally never being able to stick to a plan. [insert heart hands emoji]

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A list:

1. I am once again asking if anyone wants to join the BRAHS Hood to Coast team in August. Our dear friend and teammate Jack lives in the armpit of America (Texas) where it is 100+ degrees every day and we know he will not be training at all. If we don’t get one more teammate, Jack will be forced to run 30 miles over a 24-hour period and I don’t think he’s run more than 30 miles in one week since high school.

2. New trail alert. [SF Gate]

3. I enjoyed reading The Bachelorette Party Comes for Scottsdale in the NYT because it sounds like my worst nightmare to have a bachelorette party in Scottsdale.

4. Okay a few weeks ago we watched the new Rebel Wilson Netflix movie Senior Year and I won’t lie we actually enjoyed it. It’s funny.

5. Yeah

   Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @KendraWrites

   Confession: I didn't know what hiking was until I went away to college. And once I learned what it was my take away was basically "walking that white people have made complicated"

6. Lol.

   Give me your sheep :3 @matrioshkadog

   I… am just going to note that there are *two* people at the start of this hike >.>

   

7. I came across a cool new company called Felt that helps you build awesome maps online. I like the application for trail building.

8. The Ziwe episode with Chet Hanks… pure gold.

9. Buy Now, Pay Later: How Gen Z Is Falling Into Debt in ELLE. As much as millennials are lame, the lack of financial literacy Gen Z’s have is shocking.

   “Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU, called BNPL “the equivalent of the subprime mortgage crisis” for millennials and Gen Z.”

10. If you have any Seattle/Portland area trail recs for this weekend, email me!

Have a great weekend bye!

Xtina