Miso Soup

Step 1: Purchase miso paste at the store. There are different flavors of miso, and it doesn't matter which one you buy. I currently own a small tub of barley miso, and I'm pretty happy with it.

Step 2: Make broth by simmering a carrot broken into a few pieces, two unpeeled garlic cloves, a thumb of fresh unpeeled ginger and red pepper flakes in cold water over low heat for about 20 minutes.

Step 3: Fish out chunks and melt one tablespoon of miso in the hot broth per bowl.

Bonus: dumpster diving in your own home

People Who Have Cut My Hair Badly, 2002- present

The best Yelp-reviewed stylist at Immortal Beloved
Soraya at Images 2x (~2007, ~2008)
Michael at Paabo
someone else at Paabo
Two people at Vertical Clearance in SF
multiple stylists at Hair Cuttery in Bethesda
one person at the Dominican hair place down the street
one person at a pricey Georgetown salon I went to with Madeleine
the Vietnamese woman who used to cut my Grandma's hair at home
someone else at Immortal Beloved
an Irish woman at a salon in Long Island City
annoying dude at Chaos in Bethesda
guy wearing bad cologne at salon across from Politics and Prose
liz gallardo
john peter and george at axis in dupont circle

People who have cut my hair well, 2001-present:

Soraya at Images 2 (~2001, ~2002)

Before that I had long hair that I blow-dried every day. And before that I was in high school and everyone had "the Rachel"

ayurvedic scam

eating thin mints until i feel sick enough to stop eating thin mints

everything i say ends with "and"