You’d be forgiven for wondering if I’ve given up on this Short Stack project; I never wrote the blog post for July and I made one entire recipe in August. These non-events both come with similar reasoning: I started a new job that I genuinely like going to, and it’s taking up more of my energy than my last one in part because I’m more willing to give it. It’s a new area for me, and that’s challenging, but I also seem to be taking well to it, and I’m proud of myself. I’m proud of how I’m doing there. Another piece of reasoning: my girlfriend moved in with me last month, which is thrilling, but August felt like a very flux-y month and I just wasn’t in the mood to cook a lot. (Heat? End-of-summer malaise? I don’t know either.)

I did make one thing, though, so I’m proud of that, in a way. Better to just make one recipe than none, I think.