Wanna gab? Let's gab!
Welcome to my substack! (Did you just gag reading that? Me too)
On Friday I was on the phone with one of my bosses from one of my two part time jobs: I’m a high school volleyball coach in my hometown and a video editor for a podcast (gag again). The aforementioned boss is from the latter job and the phone call was supposed to be brief, just so we could go over one edit, but it turned into an hour and half of trying to figure out if he knew anyone who could possibly connect me with a “real” job opportunity. Maybe something full-time or maybe even something with benefits!!! He is quite worried about me having moved back home and into my parents house which always makes me laugh because I see it as being pretty lucky to be able to do and he sees it as being one day away from my last.
He was asking me the usual things one asks when you’re looking for a job: What roles are you applying to? What are your ~hard~ skills? What is your dream job? I try not to hesitate or say um because I want to sound self assured, I don’t want him to doubt my abilities, although it’s not really about what he thinks about me it’s really about what I think about myself. I have a running list of job titles in my notes app to enter into search bars: “brand marketing associate” “retail experience coordinator” “associate marketing manager”. Stick “associate” at the end of any varying synonym of the word “marketing” and it’s on my list.
He passively throws out the idea of writing a substack to me and I scoff, unconsciously. He asks me why and I don’t really give him an answer. He exclaims, “I’m a white guy with a podcast!” and ya know what Matt, you’re right. If you can have a podcast then why can’t another white girl have a substack?
alright, let’s f*cking gab
#1 The new Glossier book. Glossy: Ambition, Beauty and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier. What a mouth-full. Every piece of promotion I saw about this book before reading it was something along the lines of "The Rise and Fall of Weiss’s Glossier” blah blah blah. Which is far from what the book is about. It’s more so a poorly researched recount of the past 10-ish years of the beauty brand, with a weird tone of jealousy in the authors writing. If that sounds interesting to you, you can have my copy.
#2 This British Vogue Article by Alexa Chung. The absolute icon just turned forty and she’s sharing a life lesson for each year. My favorites are #1, #13 and #36
#3 The Eyewitness Beauty podcast. Probably the only good thing to come out of reading that book was learning about this podcast. Just look how sassy that title is!!! They talk about the book in this episode and how the author went into this project interviewing people under the understanding that what she was writing about would be the beauty industry at large. Instead, she ended up publishing a work just about Glossier.
#4 The Sephora sale. 20% off in this economy does not go a very long way. Walking into a Sephora this past weekend you would think they were giving away the secret to perfect skin. I did go twice.
#5 2 loafs of banana bread. I used the recipe from Alison Roman’s Sweet Enough. I made one loaf on Tuesday and another on Saturday it was that good.
#6 The Adult by Bronwyn Fischer. 5 out of 5 ⭐️’s. A summary (because the blurb on the back is very revealing so skip that one): Natalie is starting her first year of university in Toronto, a few hours away from the lodge her parents own that she grew up on. She’s been assigned a single dorm even though she didn’t necessarily ask for that and is now worried her floor-mates will judge her for it. Unsure of any direction she should be headed in, she signs up for a variety of classes, really anything that still has a space for her. She ends up in Jones’s class on Nature Poetry and is trying to complete an assignment in the park. A stranger, an older woman called Nora, sits besides her. This isn’t the only time their paths will all cross.
#7 I wanted to sit outside somewhere new and read. I went to an arboretum which I had never been to before and got caught up walking along this path alone and got really scared I would get lost so after about three minutes of walking and having read none of my book I took this pretty picture and immediately went back to my car.
Okay. Yeah. That’s it! If you read this, I’m in love with you.
Until next time!
Xx, Gabbie
I’m obsessed! This is what I need to get through the next 13 months
I can’t wait to be influenced by you on such cool things :)