- Ugh Bunnies! Why must you tempt my dog into murder most foul? EVERY FREAKING YEAR. I cannot seem to keep them from nesting in my yard. I have a terrier! Bad combo. Very bad.
- Prom dress season is winding down at the day job. The glitter remains. So much glitter. Embedded in the carpet. On my clothes, in the treads of my shoes. I had to remove glitter from my eyeball on Wednesday. So much glitter. It’s following me home and moving in. It’s in my dryer filter. And when it’s not glitter, it’s sequins. The fun part is that at the end of the day, when the lights are low, you can let it all just sort of blur into a multi-colored disco ball. Also? Most prom dresses have pockets now!
- Still listening to the Tortured Poets Department. Some great runs of songs in there. Plus a handful of skippable ones. 31 songs was TOO MUCH. But if the entire album consisted of nothing more than the run from “The Tortured Poets Department” to “So Long London” and the run from “Guilty as Sin” to “I Can Do It with a Broken Heart”, it would be amazing. The fact that there are other songs on top of that which I adore? It makes this extended album a winner for me. Another song that I really think is top notch: “How Did It End?”
- Checked out too many books from the library and am desperately reading all my free hours. So far my favorites this month are Diavola by Jennifer Thorne (such a great narrative voice!) and What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell, which tells a time loopy YA horror-adjacent story set in a corn maze. Both are high recommends. I also read Gwendolyn Kiste’s The Haunting of Velkwood, which was not quite what I wanted, but was pretty good anyway. I still have 5 books to read in the next ten days: Projections by S. E Porter, Necrobane by Daniel M Ford, The Bathysphere Book by Brad Fox, My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon, and The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence.
- Writing is an issue. The irksome “chronic condition” is really screwing up my writing time. I can sit and type, or I can focus, but the back spasms, joint pain, etc. do not let me do both at the same time. I am trying to think of a workaround, and also being a little sad that apparently my day job does not require the same amount of intense concentration that writing does.
- Trying to find good TV to watch. I am sampling Anthracite on netflix, as well as Bodkin. I want to watch Elspeth on paramount (I think), and of course, there’s New Who! But see #4. TOO MANY LIBRARY BOOKS. I have two due back in three days, and it’s going to be a race. I want to read both of them!
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