Live Plays and Performances: 36
Antony and Cleopatra; Come from Away; Keith Lowell Jensen’s Not for Rehire; Kinky Boots; Metamorphoses; Slowgirl; A Winter’s Tale; Home; Two Pints; The Other Place; Keith Lowell Jensen’s What I Got Arrested For; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre with Brianne of Tarth; Blithe Spirit; Small Island; Aaron Simmonds’s Disabled Coconuts; Heidi Kills Time; Macbeth; Wuthering Heights; The Lehman Trilogy; Weird Al Strings Attached Show; Hamilton; In the Heights; Hannah Gadsby’s Douglas; Oklahoma; Life Sucks; Sleep No More; Play Time; Margaret Atwood: Live in Cinemas; Between Riverside and Crazy; Fat Kid Rules the World; Ranked; Burst; White Noise; The Humans; Hansard; Present Laughter
Davisville interviews: 1
Podcast interviews: 2
Other interviews: 3
New books published: 1
Herniated discs: 1
Ligaments strained: 2
Surgeries and injections: 4
Incredible butt bruises from falling down in DC: 1
Times I went into shock after a blood vessel getting nicked during an allergy shot: 1
New doctors broken in: 7
Osteopath appointments in Oxford: 4
Times I got to fly in the fancy class across the pond: 2
Times our little blind kitten got himself lost: 1
Times my cocky little Thoth got himself lost, except the neighbors thought he was just out on his usual stroll: 1
Visits to the Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen: 2
Visits in which I was able to eat the amazing grouper at the Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen: 1
Times I cried in a German airport: 1
Times I found a bed and a chain in a bathroom at UCD: 1
Times I watched Good Omens all the way through: 3
Times I held a chicken: 1
Full books finished (not counting issue comics, magazines, online reading; counting rereads): 61
Lamentation by Ken Scholes; Lucy & Andy Neanderthal by Jeffrey Brown; The Rook and Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley; The Healing of America by T.R. Reid; The Secret Loves of Geeks by Hope Nicholson (ed); No Apparent Distress by Rachel Pearson; Nelvana of the Nothern Lights by Adrian Dingle; Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente; Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann; Fire and Hemlock and A Tale of Time City and Howl’s Moving Castle and Dogsbody by Diana Wynn Jones; La Belle Sauvage by Phillip Pullman; TransAtlantic by Colum McCann; Above the East China Sea by Sarah Bird; Meaty and Same Year, Same Trash by Samantha Irby; People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks; I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro; How to Marry a Werewolf and Impudence and Competence and Reticence by Gail Carriger; Down Among the Sticks and Bones and Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire; The Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell; Among Others by Jo Walton; the four Murderbot Diaries books by Martha Wells; Fangirl and Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell; There There by Tommy Orange; The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris; Bitter Medicine by Clem and Oliver Martini; The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke Harris, MD; a book of short stories edited by Neil Gaiman; Heavy by Keise Laymon; first two books in the Inheritance Series by NK Jemison; The Testamants (twice) by Margaret Atwood, along with Alias Grace and Cat’s Eye; The Fellowship of the Ring; Alice in Wonderland; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis; A Discovery of Witches and The Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness; Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler; How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman; A Very Scalzi Christmas by John Scalzi; The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter and European Travel for Monstrous Gentlewomen by Theodora Goss; So, Anyway by John Cleese
Purses stolen: 1
Drivers licenses obtained, because the replacement license I had to get after my purse got stolen expired six months later: 2
Epic battles with the credit card company after they accused me of lying about my purse being stolen: 1
Epic credit card battles won: 1
Performance of my one-woman show: 2
Stand-up performances (other): 7
Museums and Exhibits: 54
British Museum, Sally Lunn Museum, American Museum and Gardens in Bath, Jane Austen Centre, Bath Abbey, The 9/11 Museum, Neue Gallery, Old Royal Theatre and Masonic History Tour, Wellcome Collection, British Library, Victoria and Albert food exhibit, Design Museum Kubrick exhibit, The American Writers Museum in Chicago, Bampfa in Berkeley, Native American Museum where I had bison, African American Museum, Natural History Museum in DC, FDR monument, MLK monument, Whiskey Museum, Little Museum of Dublin, Famine Exhibition, Dublin Gaol, Dublin Castle, Trinity College Library and the Book of Kells, EPIC Immigration Museum, The Divinity School, Natural History Museum in Oxford, The Sheldonian Theatre, Christ Church, Magdalene, The Oxford Botanical Gardens, The Harry Potter Studio Tour, Stonehenge, Prague Castle, Wilton House, The Acropolis, The Museum of Cycladic Art, The Acropolis Museum, Athens’a 1st Cemetery, National Archaeological Museum of Athens, MSU Museum, Sedlec Ossuary, Kupta Hora Cathedral, Brno Ossuary; The Church of Loreto in Prague, The Temple of Poseidon, Underground Market Labyrinth in Prague, Saint Charles Bridge, Uncomfortable Oxford Walking Tour, Trinity College Oxford, Wadham College; Bodelian Library exhibits; the Roman Baths
Attendees at this fall’s UC Davis stand-up club performances: Hundreds!!!
Non-California cities visited: 16
Chicago (twice); Washington DC; Anaheim; Cincinnati; London; Bath; Gerrards Cross; Oxford; Dublin; New York; Prague; Brno; Vienna; Kupta Hora; East Lansing (and Lansing–I can’t count this as two); Athens
Exciting new ice cream flavors tried: 2
(G&T and Black Currant and Clotted Cream)
Times Anubis ate rum cake: 1
Conferences: 8
The first jacket I’ve ever cared about, bought at WonderCon, which I think might begin a new era in which I care about clothes sometimes (my new prescription sunglasses make it a verified trend): 1
New nephews and cousins: 2
Gin distilleries: 2
Whiskey distilleries: 4
Ouzo distilleries: 1
New pubs tried in Oxford: 7
Times I couldn’t tell the difference between a packing crate and a shopping basket in Oxford: 1
Baby showers hosted: 1
Courses taught: 16
New courses taught: 1
Christmas ornaments I had the energy to put up: 2
Times I probably irritated Weird Al by making him sign his tiny gold record: 1
Trips to Nandos: 8
Times I got to eat fried okra in a hotel room with a view of the Acropolis: 1
Incredibly bad flus I currently have, which have knocked me down harder than I’ve been knocked down in years and that probably guarantee I’m forgetting some stuff for this list: 1
