Summer 2024: Ins And Outs

summer is all about beach and day drinking (as i told my old high school history teacher, shout out to mr lunow)

Inspired by lifesabender's SUMMER 2024: ins / outs

A June Review:

eating: religiously drinking strawberry matcha from phin smith and san francisco chinatown dim sum

watching: house of the dragon, interview with the vampire (but only through my twitter timeline), and smiling friends

reading: slugging my way through my reread of bluets by maggie nelson (it’s one of my favorite books, I’m only reading it when I have nothing to do at work)

wearing: maxi skirts, hand cropped tank tops, levi’s 501 jeans that used to belong to my brother, and a semi red lip

listening:

• BRAT by Charlie xcx

• Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol

• The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan

• A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out by Panic! At The Disco

my favorite things: smiling friends vocal stims, going out with friends a minimum of 3 times a week, perfume tiktoks, and, of course, san francisco

Ins:

• no curated aesthetics

  • i’m tired of seeing everything be hyper categorized into specific niches just to make yourself marketable

• hot girl walks

  • i still don’t have my license (at this point it’s a protest on how car dependent southern california is and showing adamant support to the shitty public transport) so I walk almost everywhere locally

• community support and volunteer work

• rereading your old notes app poetry

  

• persimmons

  • i’m really sad i haven’t had one yet this summer, its not a want it’s a need now

• talking to strangers you will never see again (i love to yap!)

• mangonadas with tequila

  • again, not a want but a need

• day drinking

  • but only with friends, if you’re doing it alone you might fall under the dsm-5 category for alcoholism

• a bold red lip

  • nothing screams chic and confident like rocking a red lip, especially barefaced

• the gaudy, the camp, the tacky

• a personal motif that everyone will recognize you by

• short nails

  • i can no longer stand the feeling of long nails, and at least short nails gives me no excuse not to practice my bass

• unorganized, messy bookshelves

• cd collections

Outs:

• instagram reels or tiktok binges

  • i can literally feel the brainrot creeping in, it’s alarming

• not being honest with your feelings

• this weird new age phrenology that’s all over tiktok for some reason

• being xenophobic towards the french

  • for the most part

• waiting 30 minutes for the next bus

• missing your train

  

• being mean

• soda

  • after drinking too much it gets all syrupy tasting and gross

• nostalgia

  • music you listened to at 13 is the exception

• not taking care of yourself

  • showers will make you feel brand new, yes you should book that psychiatrist appointment, please start stretching, and eat a fruit.

Thank you all for reading :3 !