In the last month:
Letters of recommendation written: 3
Trips to Chicago: 1
Conference presentations on Weird Al Yankovic: 1
Endings of Weird Al Presentations with Daniel Radcliffe’s “She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain”
Unhappy patterns broken: 1 (When I discovered NPR’s new music Friday, I listened to the 5+ hours each week, even though I would only really like 2-3 songs. It was hard to stop and to go back to listening to my music, the playlists I’ve curated over decades, which make me happy. I’m not sure if it was FOMO or my OCD or both that made it so hard to quit.)
Days being convinced that menopause is making my ADD worse: all of them
Visits to the Blue Box Cafe, where I had an excellent Rueben sandwich surrounded by Doctor Who memorabilia.
Days Tiffany and co spoiled me wildly: 5
Servings of fish and chips: 2
Cambodian cuisine tried for the first time: 1
Crepes that ended up being burritos: 1
Beginnings of a gluen-free month, to see if it’s making my IBS/GERD symptoms worse: 1
Times Dante broke my heart by reminding me that soy sauce has gluten in it: 1
Discoveries that gluten-free bread is simply disgusting: 1
Movies: 8 (Dumplin’; Muppets from Space; Get Out; Poltergeist; Ghostbusters; E.T.; Splash; The Shape of Water; Wuthering Heights)
Times I quoted Lisa Simpson after Ancestry told me my DNA indicates I have stubby eyelashes (“My God: They are stubby”): 1
Wonderful niece’s dance recitals attended: 1
House chickens petted: 1
Times I tried to make a project so much easier for my students, by giving them the answers in a PPT they could go back to, but then they did worse than any class ever, because they tried to use AI instead: 1
Gold Cadillac Cocktails at Poor Red’s Bar-B-Q: 1
Times I blew out a candle and somehow got blowback, which left wick soot on my face: 1
Days Canvas was down & screwed up my classes: 3
Days Canvas has been glitchy since: all of them
Episodes of The Simpsons watched with my niece and nephew: 5
Shopping trips with Du: 1
Health appointments: 14
Picnic days avoided: 1
Bruises on my eye from my son’s asshole cat: 1
Books finished: 3
Pinkie rings attained: 1
Paula Poundstones seen live: 1
Family crises keeping me up at night: 2
Book club meetings: 1
Professional development meetings: 2
Wine club shipments finally picked up: 4
Days celebrated: 11 (Cinco de Mayo; Star Wars Day; Cheddar Fries Day; British Tea Day; Talk Like Shakespeare Day; English Day; Spanish Day; St. George’s Day; Neck Care Day; Whacking Day; Mother’s Day)
