What I've been enjoying lately
I haven't posted from late spring to mid summer roughly, so here are some recent faves:
Food
With warmer weather and fresher produce comes the necessary arrival of some workhorse meals when the thought of turning on the stove for prolonged periods of time during heat waves becomes unbearable:
- Vermicelli bowls with five spice chicken or lemongrass tofu, lettuce, mint, green onions, cucumber, pickled carrots and daikon, peanuts, nuoc cham
- Cilantro lime chicken with quinoa, refried beans, and corn tomato salad, optional avocado salsa or chipotle cashew crema
- Quinoa bowl with hummus, cucumber tomato salad, optional shwarma chicken
- "Lumpia in a bowl" made with ground pork, shredded cabbage, carrot, and sweet chili sauce, with rice or vermicelli noodles, optional sliced hardboiled egg
Music
- "Symptom of Life" by Willow [x]
- "Big Feelings" by Willow [x]
- "Joyride" by Kesha [x]
- Dancemenco by Paco Versailles x
Reading
Books/Novellas
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Short Stories
- "Two Truths and a Lie" by Sarah Pinsker
- "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole" by Isabel J. Kim
- "You, Me, Her, You, Her, I" by Isabel J. Kim
- "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" by Isabel Fall
- "Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self" by Isabel J. Kim
- "Hell is the Absence of God" by Ted Chiang