Five Good Things: Queen of Corona Edition

1. My aunt, who is cool, sent me my great-grandparents’ alien registration cards from 1942: Last of Italy. Grandma Victoria Vitarelle Cotugno was 44  when her picture was taken, though she looks at least twenty years older. There’s an expression on her face as if she’d like to kick your ass. I’m into it. I dig her. The note from my aunt said: she had a difficult life.

2. Plowing through nearly everything on yesterday’s to-do list, including but certainly not limited to a big-girl haircut, 500 words of the Big Fat Greek Writing Project, a double batch of pie crust (I really wasn’t kidding about this being the season of pie), a handful of magazine submissions, and a little online shopping. Just to reiterate: I really like working part-time.

3. I made Deb’s herbed summer squash and potato torte for H & J the other night. It tasted like fancy potatoes au gratin, which is to say, delicious.

4.  I’m reading Shopgirl. It’s heartbreaking but rad. Marissa told me it was rad like three years ago, but I am  notoriously slow on the uptake. After that I’m going to read Consider the Lobster, because apparently I want to be a filthy wretched hipster when I grow up.

5. I’m going to California tomorrow. Two of my three best girls are gonna be there, and no hillbilly hurricane is gonna keep me away.