Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversaries celebrated: 1
Oscar nominees watched in preparation for the ceremony: 25 of the 35 (full length) & 11 of 15 (shorts)
Oscar nominees enjoyed: 14 (full length) & 7 (shorts)
Plays: 3 (Macbeth; The Importance of Being Earnest; English)
People behind me in the theatre who complained that English was actually about identity and culture, when she was hoping it would be about grammar: 1
New roombas: 1
Trips to the Indian grocery store in Sacramento, during which an Indian woman expressed happiness that I love Indian food & attempt to make it myself: 1
Days I was horrified/ashamed/terrified to be American: 28
Nights of good sleep: 0
Comedy performances with my students, on Valentine’s Day: 1
“Bad pick-up line” jokes I had to write for our performance slideshow: 1
Comedy performances that were just me for 1.5 hours: 1 (Chronic Pain: A Comedy)
Former students who flew in from Colorado to see the show and who brought flowers: 1
Outpatient procedures: 2 (on the same day)
Live Comedy shows attended: 2 (Maria Bamford & Mike E. Winfield)
Paintings by my (Grand)Daddy that found places on my walls: 3
Drawings and paintings by my (Grand)Daddy that are at the Paint Chip waiting for frames: 4
New restaurants in Sacramento tried: 2
Times I realized I had eggs about to go bad & I rushed to eat them all because it seemed very wrong to waste eggs right now: 1
New recipes tried: 4 (Air Fryer Chinese-style Lemon Chicken; Slow Cooker Lemon Chicken Thighs; Chicken Mulligatawny Soup; Air Fryer Meyer Lemon Chicken)
Campus Book Project Events hosted: 2
Guest speakers in my comedy class: 1
Guest speakers in my Health Science Writing Class: 1
Servings of lamb: 2
Pilgrimages to the oldest continuous Chinese restaurant in California (and possibly in the US) before it closes: 1
Times I was low-key stalked by a guy in an Amazon delivery vest: 1
What I’m watching: The West Wing; Sisi; Black Box Diaries; Seth Meyers; Elsbeth; Groundhog Day; Sugarcane; Memoir of a Snail; A Different Man; Flow; Doctor Who; SNL; Yellowjackets; Slow Horses; I’m Still Here; The Oscar Live Action Shorts; The Oscar Animated Shorts; Wicked; Anora; Harley Quinn; The Daily Show; Last Week Tonight with John Oliver; Wicked; Sing Sing; The Substance; I Am Ready, Warden; The Brutalist; Flow; I’m Still Here; Maria; The Girl with the Needle
