9:34pm: sat on curb outside waldbaum’s, talking to mom on phone. She told me to watch Amy Schumer on comedy central. She said ‘she’s turning into a feminist, surprisingly. I don’t know if you’d like her personality, but some of the things she says are just really, really funny. She says women should exercise their vaginas so…they can use them, as weapons [laugh-laugh].’ She apologized for crying last night and I said ‘don’t apologize, that was nice, I was crying too, I felt good talking to you about it.’ walked by the plants, outside waldbaum’s. Mom said ‘oh honey you should do it, just buy a plant.’ I said ‘maybe tomorrow. I don’t want the cats to eat it.’ Asked her for a seafood recipe. I’m going to make this, typing before I forget:

Scallops

Butter

Garlic

Shallots

Mushrooms

Tomatoes

White wine

Lemon

Capers

Sauté the scallops in butter and garlic then set them aside. Using the same pan sauté the mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes, capers in more butter and lemon. Then you make it really hot and add the white wine and when it cooks down you put the scallops back in.

Hell yeah. Mom said she figured out the recipe from a restaurant whose t-shirt I have, it says ‘chez Ferdinand.’ Restaurant has since changed their name to Tersiguel’s, I don’t think I ever went to it when it was called ‘chez Ferdinand.’

10:34pm: walking home from waldbaum’s. Very windy. Followed a group of four college-aged girls in basketball shorts and team sports t-shirts and flip flops around the store. One of them said ‘yeah but we can take the shuttle, we’ll take the S and no one will see the liquor and we can take shots’ and the rest of them laughed. They were leaving a check-out lane. Wanted to be hanging out with them.

11:07PM: called mom to confirm some things about the recipe. She said to call her when it was done, if I felt like it.