i told myself that i wouldn't sign up for two articles in one week again. i'm on the record (in an earlier post) for that. but, i did it anyway because i love to stress myself out

i wrote a bad sonnet for class but my friend seemed to like it. so much so she posted it on her book/writing instagram account, which i appreciated

i ate too much chococlate cake at dinner and now i'm paying for it. i want to give up meat, but i can't seem to stop eating a sausage, egg, and cheddar(or cheese) breakfast sandwich almost every morning. i need to do better

called my mother the other day. we talked about a bunch of stuff. a little about my sister, a bit about her job. about my dog. about my brother. eventually we talked about 'el ojo' which is a superstition on latin american (or at least mexican) culture. my mother used to rub me down with a room temperature egg, which is supposed to remove these bad vibes known as 'el ojo'. you have to rub yourself down with it, thoroughly, and then crack the egg into a half-full glass of water. when you crack the egg, you can gauge the bad vibes with the amount of spider web-like filaments(?) or string in the egg whites. the yolk will also have a white dot, if i remember correctly. i don't feel like getting into the logistics of it all, but it hasn't happened in a while. she said i should leave an egg out and do it to myself. i've been meaning to buy eggs. i still want to drink one with my ornage juice each morning, but i need to get cage free organic eggs. pasteurized preferably, but I've yet to come across those in any store. anyway, might sneak an egg from the fridge for this purpose. might not