Nebraska (2013) by Alexander Payne
geriatric melancholy father-and-son road adventure. the current economic backdrop gives this one a poignant flavor. i hear about people of my generation grappling with the idea that they may never accumulate any real legacy to pass down, that life may just be reduced to a series of pay periods, punctured by the occasional luxuries of organic fruits at the groceries.
life is long and fleeting. after all this trouble, in the end maybe we just want something to grab onto to think it hasn’t all been for naught.
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your lawyers hate your AI notetakers
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Venice self-guided immersive program lol🌞 you will be transformed
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i just officially left my job. i think you have to be pretty damn lucky to find yourself sad leaving a job (regardless of how excited you are about your next endeavor), and i’ve experienced it twice. maybe to some other people it’s about what they’ve accomplished, but i mostly only remember how the wonderful people made me feel.
feeling so immensely grateful at the moment✨
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after spending a bunch of time and money over the last six months trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with me— urgent care, immunologist, naturopath, obgyn, blood panel, scratch test, pee test, poop test, ultrasound— apparently i am *just* stressed.
it is one thing to feel emotionally stable, but i am learning that your body can disagree.
early this year an urgent care doctor suspected i was having an anaphylactic shock and stabbed me with epinephrine. i had no known allergies. when i went to an immunologist afterwards my body reacted to every single item on the allergy test— i had a hyperactive histamine situation. since then whenever things got unusually stressful (war and authoritarianism to further exacerbate) spots on my body would swell and itch.
i am pretty level about it now; its been a minute. when people say stress could kill you, i didn’t think they meant potentially your face and throat swell up and your heart pumps on turbo trying to keep up with your dropping blood pressure to prevent a cardiac arrest. we just have a culture that feels pretty cute about stress. i was astonished that stress looked so unflattering.
i don’t know why i’m telling this story now (other than to try out the extra character count). more time spent listening to blasting music in a fetal position can be good for you. i was pretty misguided to think mental tenacity alone could see you through. you can will your way into many things but sometimes you can’t will your way out of high histamine and low cortisol.
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Nebraska (2013) by Alexander Payne
geriatric melancholy father-and-son road adventure. the current economic backdrop gives this one a poignant flavor. i hear about people of my generation grappling with the idea that they may never accumulate any real legacy to pass down, that life may just be reduced to a series of pay periods, punctured by the occasional luxuries of organic fruits at the groceries.
life is long and fleeting. after all this trouble, in the end maybe we just want something to grab onto to think it hasn’t all been for naught.
Criterion Leaving Club Dec 2025