10 Things We're Doing Besides Hiatus-ing

May 9

erica’s things

Getting outta bed with no snoozing (!!!) due to the very annoying and very effective Kiwake app.
Experiencing history with a nice UX: Histography.io makes events chronicled on Wikipedia all navigable and pretty.
Raging about capital punishment and our oh-so-flawed criminal justice system while reading Bryan Stevenson’s *important* Just Mercy.
Doing so much—too much?—internet research: What to buy? What travel to plan?
Snacking on lupini beans. The pitch: They’re kind of like Italian edamame.

Learning to shuck my own shells at Little Creek Oyster Farm & Market on the North Fork of Long Island.
Keeping with tradition—specifically the anniversary one that dictates cotton for year two of marriage—by getting my guy a gift certificate for a custom-fitted shirt from the tailoring-obsessed experts at Kamakura.
Learning, via a thoughtful essay from Grace Bonney, that my all-white-everything interior-design tendencies are bathed in controversy. Who knew?!
Rethinking my judgy stance on store-bought bloody mary mix thanks to some guy named Curt.
Loving this fashion-nerd deep-dive into the big-picture thinking and tiny, granular details that go into the creation of a Met Gala look.

Accumulating a stash of this wrapping paper—it’s so happy-making and, since it comes in newsprint-style sheets, easy to store.