j. cush
5:30 - awake, dying
5:46 - drinking coffee and playing my little games
6:25 - get ready
6:40 - out the door
7:05 - train to Camden (most days the first thing I do is leave Philadelphia)(it’s very nice to see the sun rise crossing the ben franklin bridge, today was streaky pink and dark blue)
7:24 - at work :(
-8:28 put everything in its place, breakfast execution, make too much pancake batter
buttermilk pancakes
485g buttermilk
248g whole milk
3 eggs
10g vanilla x
118g butter, melted
40g honey
500g flour
20g bp
3g salt
8:32 - coffee #2
8:55 banana bread (it’s better when you ferment your bananas for a week)
8 bananas (put them in a vac bag, forget about them, realize you really need to use them before you accidentally ferment them into straight alcohol)
2 ½ c sugar
4 eggs
1/2lb butter, melted, cooled
1t van x
2T baking soda
3c flour
1/2t salt
cream bananas w sugar, 5 min med speed. eggs in, one at a time. butter in. dry in. pullman pan, 350 for an hourish.
9:00 lunch prep long haul begins
9:35-11 big boy breakfasts a la carte
10 - (we have reached the time of day where I wish I were in bed, and i cut my finger trying to open a water bottle which sounds crazy but i’m not even the first person to do it this week. i hate you mountain valley!)
10:30-12:00 mad desperate scramble to push out lunch. our dishwasher decides the appropriate thickness for a slice of cheese is:
(somewhere between 12 and 1:20, people eat)
1:20 everyone leaves us alone :)
1:47 - coffee #3
1:59 - the people who said they were coming over for lunch at 12:30 finally show up
2-3 we are cleaning. the degreaser steaming from the plancha gives me a headache. (one day i’ll probably get cancer from this)
3:15 - collective vent session
3:30 - return to Philadelphia, it is R A I N I N G
4:50 - very unsatisfying pb&j. Unusual
5:45 - cat lying on me. puts me to sleep.
6:45 - fish time.
before:
after:
j.cush is not a native Philadelphian but might as well be at this point. she hopes to die by supervolcanic eruption. until then, you can find her in the windowless bowels of the wells fargo center.
