tiny newsletter #129: get in a pool, any pool

hi friends!

enough of ‘waiting for august to swim' - friend of the newsletter (fotn) caitlin dickson and i checked out the newly renovated astoria pool last wknd and guess what, it's wonderful!! 

it's olympic sized, free, and you can walk to abuqir for the freshest seafood in nyc after – the type of place where you pick your own fish. a perf day in queens! 

this week, i...

📚 read tom lake. in ann patchett’s (who also wrote the incredible bel canto) latest novel, a mom / ex-actress tells the story of her life to her three grown daughters, and to us. it’s set on a fruit farm in northern michigan and the descriptions made me homesick! loooooooved. 

🃏 played sequence. this game is a mix of cards and connect four. rules are: look at your cards and place a chip on the board in a spot that matches one of them. the goal is for you and your team to put 5 chips in a row. s/o to fotn arielle schoen for intro'ing me to it!

🧋drank bubble tea. i always get the same order (black milk tea w pearls, 100% sugar) bcuz it reminds me of when i was a research assistant at the mit media lab and used my transferred over wellesley meal plan credits on it every week that semester, lol. 

~ bonus section ~ 

🖊️ great pen rec 🖊️ i've been working on illustrations for a project i’m excited to show you soon (!) and this pen has such a lovely feel – any line i draw has some natural variation to it and the tip doesn’t feel too delicate. 

💌 and that's the tiny letter! thank you for reading, xo aud