tiny newsletter edition #24: whirlwind week + work retreat recap
hello hello!
happy friday pals! it's me, aud! i'm back to writing tiny and boy does it feel good to be typing out this little letter to you.
a fun (is it fun?) fact about me is i've always equated 'difficult' with 'good' in terms of achieving goals. i often feel that if i'm not working towards something that's hard to reach, i've somehow gotten off track. but this new living-in-nyc thing has me feeling the complete opposite. my only goal rn is to have as much fun as possible. cheers to exiting, at least for the time being, my girlboss era.
in that vein, this week i...
🍝 leaned deep into pasta. i ate spaghetti pomodoro, pink peppercorn malfadini, and picked up a box of cascatelli, a new pasta shape that has a beloved 7 part accompanying podcast (starts here). it'll be perf for this summery recipe – a madeline warshaw favorite.
👖 bought these floral jean shorts. i realized that i owned exactly 1 pair of non-athletic shorts and i've had them since high school! it's been too hot for pants and i was hitting a wall wearing dresses everyday. i highly recco embroidered flowers, this would be a super fun diy too!
🎤 went to loads of events. we saw a taping of the view (lol) – there's free lottery tickets for tons of taped shows in nyc!, watched aidy bryant interview seth meyers (she wore the most incredible dress!), saw the six (which i thought was v fun, tho it did feel like only the first half of a show), and went to a free yoga class in bryant park (and then worked outside). as i write this, tonight is a phoebe bridgers concert. this is more events than i've attended in the past 2 yrs combined!!!
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🌳 work retreat recap 🌳 last week i met up with my team in cassopolis, michigan at the edward lowe foundation for 3 days. ed invented kitty litter and left a $130m trust to create and maintain a place for michigan-based second stage companies to spend time in nature. it was such a beautiful location (1,2,3,4) and i did enjoy these two self-knowledge quizzes they had us complete. unsurprisingly my #1 saboteur is that i'm a pleaser...my achilles heel. what's yours?
💌 and that's the tiny letter! thank you for reading, xo aud
ps both starstruck and hacks have been renewed for s3!! wahoo!