- walking down to the beach to watch the fireworks ten minutes before midnight
- jack telling me to 'belt it out' at karaoke, singing ouro de tolo
- sopranos all day on the 1st january
- journalling every night in bed
- accidentally putting half a bottle of oyster sauce in stir-fry
- how good that sweet bread tasted at maria's, eating alone in the living room while she put zé to sleep, a quiet moment, nice incidental sounds of the night
- finishing astro diy, spending a long time with charts and journals
- finally rewatching edifício master, after all these years
- feeling in a movie groove again
- com armas sonolentas, seeing secret messages everywhere
- secret message in an e-mail from 2016, 'desculpe o transtorno mas não falo a língua geral'
- fake vienna coffee on a tuesday morning like this
- fuzzy lying next to me while i read my tarot cards
- first swim in the sea in months, the simplicity and bliss always there after all the neuroses and stress, the familiar peace afterwards
- suedehead out of nowhere playing at the beach
- and the same triangle i photographed in berlin, in an article about video stores in porto alegre while doing research for my dissertation
- wednesday date night, burgers and beers
- swimming again on thursday morning, trying to get that summer feeling going, the sure contentedness that follows, despite everything
- getting my mind blown by shirkers when the evening promised only sulking and an aimless netflix binge
- a new episode of the good place
- blood moon, poisoned water, punctuates my days, feeds my wistfulness which is my escape
- there's no bottled water anywhere, jack got a 500ml bottle for R$4, it feels like an 80s cyberpunk novel
- brigadeiro exploded in the microwave and tasted like chocolate mousse
- watching the houses in são cristóvão roll by on the bus back from mast, i'll miss these moments specifically
- eating chicken out in the drizzle after a heatwave
- reading rosseau on a rainy saturday, feeling challenged and inspired in just the atemporally idyllic way i've been yearning for
- really good quiche and salad meal at jac's café, near the end-of-the-world street. it's been a while since we've discovered a good new place like this
- saturday night sunset walk to leme,
- gin & tonics at fernando's
- long late-night walk to voluntários, stopping for a disgustingly salty kfc
- beers with mary post-ayahuasca and about to take a plane back to berlin, talked mainly about reality shows
- coming home tired from mast, ordering a burrito, watching a movie
- meeting up with jack at the burger kiosk after a long day
- zé seemed to like the dinosaur hand i got him for his birthday
- going to the board games bar with vitória and her friends
- the video of the service dog calming down the lady having a panic attack
- some nice light coming into the living room everyday at around noon
- lying in bed in the dark, watching the thunderstorm
jan 7 2020 ∞
oct 5 2020 +