{"id":45884,"date":"2026-04-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=45884"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:27:26","slug":"whats-in-my-now-semi-chellas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-now-semi-chellas\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in my NOW? \u2014 Semi Chellas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Semi C. is a writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/03\/semi-chellas-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45885\" width=\"661\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/03\/semi-chellas-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/03\/semi-chellas-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/03\/semi-chellas-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2026\/03\/semi-chellas.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>PHYSICAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theiceplant.cc\/product\/5-year-diary\/\">Five year diary<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theiceplant.cc\/product\/5-year-diary\/\">&nbsp;<\/a>&#8211; only a couple sentences a day, but the perspective that emerges once you are into the second or third year is incredible. Like, it turns out everything bad happens to me on December 11. Everything good is first week of April. I\u2019m on year 7.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/glocusent.com\/collections\/reading-lights\/products\/glocusent-bookmark-style-best-book-reading-light\">Reading light (bookmark style from Glocusent)<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; this tiny thumb drive of a nightlight saves me from looking at my phone if I\u2019m awake in the night, with warm and cool settings and different brightness.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxo.com\/oxo-good-grips-hand-held-mandoline-slicer.html\">Mandoline slicer (from OXO Good Grips)<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; makes all slicing and dicing way easier, which makes me eat more veggies.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>DIGITAL<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duolingo.com\/\">Duolingo<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; I am now competent in two new languages, but it\u2019s also a way to be productive and not on social when I\u2019m on my phone.<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.headspace.com\/\">Headspace<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; meditating on a streak!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>INVISIBLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I love this Toni Morrison quotation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cLike failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge\u2014even wisdom. Like art.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsinmynow.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sign up here<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0to get\u00a0What\u2019s in my NOW?\u00a0a week early in your inbox.<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ec17518-5a1f-4d72-bb4c-90894919687f_600x600.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>issue #249<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2303],"tags":[2389],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45886,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45884\/revisions\/45886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}