grilled cheese + tomato soup, saltines, and just pounding gatorade throughout the day. eating the simplest to make comfort-y comfort foods that won’t agitate my symptoms at all while i let the medicine do it’s thing (added benefit is big “home sick from school” vibes)
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the other day i had a rotten sore throat w/ a quite empty pantry, so i just made a super simple pastina recipe (broth, orzo, parmesan, butter, & pepper) and i'm telling you. it was like magic how much better i felt! i wasn't cured or anything, but i felt leagues better for a few hours :)
Sep 30, 2024
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When I’m so sick I can’t eat anything else. Or so stressed that all texture and food feels wrong in my mouth, watermelon is always there for me. It’s tasty and it’s hydrating which is especially good if you’ve lost water due to being ill. It’s the perfect starter food to test the waters of whether your body can handle food right now, if it can I then move on to Heinz tomato soup with toast.
Mar 29, 2024
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Omg I am also squashing a stomach bug at the moment and I had the noravirus back in January… cursed!!
Unfortunately I don’t think you can speed up the process it just has to run its course but to help your body bounce back start with liquids: water, pedialyte, and broth in small sips to test what your stomach can handle atm. Then when you’re ready, move to the BRAT diet — bananas, rice, apple sauce, toast… a chicken noodle soup :) for about 2 days (possibly more if your stomach is still sensitive). And then lots of rest + heating pad! Godspeed 🫡 and 𝓖𝓮𝓽 𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓵 𝓢𝓸𝓸𝓷 ❤️‍🩹
Apr 23, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024