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My apartment with its torn up walls, slanted floors, and exposed brick walls who sometimes cough up crumbled rock onto the floor, the couch, and sometimes my bedsheets, also has free & limitless water (except not free of the environmental implication; not free in that the hot tends to be more a trickle than a stream) and a clawfoot tub.
Tonight I sat in that tub, under the hot spray, and I looked and I noticed, for the first time in years, the magnets in the shower curtains,—when was the last time I recognized these little guys who quite literally hold together the whole shower experience?
The simple act of noticing what I haven’t noticed since the deep recesses of my own childhood inspired this momentary radical nostalgia in me, the kind which reminds that I haven’t changed all that much since the days I played with toy ships in the bathtub, imagining dramatic scenes with wave swells and dense dark storms, since the days I shot off water from the tips of my fingers at intangible yet ever wily foes.
Feb 2, 2024
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i like showering. i always have. it’s so comforting to stay stagnant while the world moves over you, hot water hitting your back. i zone out in the shower because i shower in the morning. i get sleepy. i like to listen to punk music in the shower to stay awake. i like to wash my hair. i like to stretch my fingers and crack my back on the side wall. i love to run the water through my hair, let it fall flat and slick. i like the way it makes my hair curl, my face warm. i like how the world fogs around me. i think about my girlfriend and coffee and work and i feel groggy, admittedly, but hopeful. morning showers are lovely
Feb 6, 2025
Figuring out the shower, whether it be staying over at someone’s house, being on vacation, or going to a new gym, is always a journey. What knob gives you hot water? Do you have to pull the thing to make it come out of the spout? Do I have to open the drain? I navigate the world through a veil of perpetual cluelessness so this can easily become a ten minute ordeal. I’ve shed blood. But on the other side, a crisp refreshing feeling of cleanliness that feels earned, and a new appreciation for the machinery of home.
Jan 17, 2025
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I have taken showering in the comfort of my own home for granted. I started going to the gym recently and I find that the only way I can remain consistent is if I go first thing in the morning. Which means I go straight to work right after. Which means I have to shower in the locker room. Which means I only shower at home when I don’t go to work directly after the gym, so Saturday and Sunday. Surely, I could just “take another shower” if I wanted the comfort of my own shower so bad throughout the week. However, not only is that more effort and time wasted, but also, the wait until the weekend to treat myself to a home shower releases a sort of euphoric catharsis. Taking a dump naked and immediately hopping into the shower. The smell of EOS Pink Champagne body wash emanating through the steamy bathroom. Sky Ferreira shower curtain watching my bare butt as I brush my hair and perform my skin care routine. These are the sort of experiences you can only get twice a week.
Feb 23, 2025
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made a joke post on substack notes that i honestly still think is pretty funny but it turns out it went whoosh right over a lot of peoples' heads, especially on twitter people thought it was serious,—and so here i am with my phone blowing up because friends and people i haven't heard from in years are just seeing it on their feeds and texting me allll about it
Sep 9, 2024
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this feels like a crazy little window of time in which everyone on this app is cool,
i'd follow anybody here honestly
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