Oscars watched: 1
Oscars awards missed, due to Hulu fucking up: 2
Movies watched: 2 (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes & The Comeback Trail)
Times I dropped my phone in a play on the way to my seat, but an usher grabbed it and they got it back to me: 1
Books: 5 (Quietly Hostile; When the Moon Hits Your Eye; Eleanore of Avignon; To Shape a Dragon’s Breath; Life Hacks for a Little Alien)
Classes ended: 4
Classes started: 1 (two more start today)
Spring “Breaks”: 1
Seeing the author of Weathering at the Mondavi Center: 1
Gasping when I learned the author got death threats when she first published her research: 1
Seeing Soledad O’Brien at the Mondavi center: 1
Comedy performances with the club: 2
Comedy performances with my class: 1
Seeing Russell Howard, one of my absolute favorite UK comedians: 1
Abstracts submitted for a conference in Paris: 1
Meetings to help set up an Atwood conference in Spain: 1
Breathing tests: 1
Nerve burn tests: 1
St. Urho’s Days celebrated: 1
Plays: 2 (Jeeves and Wooster; Everything Beautiful Happens at Night)
Times I wanted to hem a pair of pajama pants and so I got out a little sewing machine I had bought for exactly times like these, but it outsmarted me, and I gave up after a couple of hours: 1
Times Snowball gave me a heart attack by briefly getting over the fence: 1
Hubby ER visits: 2
Cat ER visits: 1 (Thoth was hospitalized for two days)
Interviewers who said, “Give my best to your cat and your husband, in that order”: 1
New Recipes Tried: 3: (a Bolognese with Thai red curry paste; Katsu Curry; Chicken Florentine)
New Recipes Loved: 0
Catch ups with friends: 4
Days that Anubis was diagnosed with a heart murmur: 1
Times it was sunny, so I put on a new sun dress and then Snowball jumped on my lap and a little nail ripped the dress (this was predictable, so D’oh): 1
Days in which I thought we’d reached a new low in our country, worse than the day before: 31
(As I write this, I’m listening to Trump explain that he’s not kidding about serving a third term.)
What I’m watching: Doctor Who; Seth Meyers; John Oliver; The Daily Show; Call the Midwife; Slow Horses; Abbot Elementary; The Simpsons; Harley Quinn; The Pitt; Matlock; 30 Rock; Elsbeth.
What I’m listening to and reading: The New Yorker; Discover; The Smithsonian Magazine; National Geographic; Morning Edition; All Things Considered; Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me; This American Life; Savage Lovecast; New Music Friday; The Moth; American History Tellers; American Scandal; Fresh Air; This is History; Working it Out; Levar Burton Reads; Asimov’s; Sidedoor; Pretend
