Love love love these popping up all over my dash. Tagged/mentioned by @gatesofminrathous and @cimmanombagel; please everyone consider this an open tag!
...what I'm reading (books): Stiiiiiill reading The Mountain in the Sea for @slothquisitor's book club. I'm going to be at Warped Tour (lmao) for the actual meeting to talk about this book but I am so taken with it that I may write a little thing to send in. And I have Leviathan Falls allegedly coming in to my library soon? It's been a comedy of errors.
...what I'm reading (fic): Copying from last week (god) — STILL working on @skogrr's Salt & Blood, with @ratbagjasper's More Like Resting Than Running on deck. New since last week: THAT RAIN KISS I'M PACING IN RAPID CIRCLES!!!!
...what I'm listening to: I dunno what's in the air that we're all going back to 90s/00s standards, but on the drive back from Philly over the weekend, while bouncing albums back and forth with Mr Asta and the kiddo (who, at 3.5, is a RIDE OR DIE Joyce Manor fan), I put on Dizzy up the Girl by the Goo Goo Dolls. It is still a stone-cold classic through I do think I prefer A Boy Named Goo in the end. Anyway, I'm not at my height at the moment but I enjoyed the reminder that I am always and forever a reeeeal big Goo fan; ask me about my PowerPoint!
...what I'm watching: I am through a miracle going to get up to current on Critical Role Campaign 4 before the campaign resumes. I am about an hour from the end of ep30 and I have what I knoooow is a nasty little opinion about what just happened but I'm keeping it to the DMs.
...what I'm playing: Mr Asta and I just cracked open Dispatch, which seems like a fun game to play together. We've finished chapter 1 and hopefully will do chapter 2 before too long.
...what I'm eating: I made a pretty good shepherd's pie and not only that but my KID ATE SOME!!! He is "six months and counting of twice a week feeding therapy sessions" levels of picky and we just had a huge breakthrough in the last month and he's suddenly eating things.*
*please for the love of god do not offer advice on this. with love in my heart: no
...what I'm working on: I've reached The Fight at the end of ch5 for the Recrumbening and please enjoy this image to explain how I'm doing with it:
...what I'm doing to touch grass: Read outside for lunch again on this lovely day, and went on a nice two-mile errand walk around the city! Also went to a baseball game on Saturday but it was medium-bad AQI and so humid I was just all-over moist from simply walking around the concourse and also there was a tornado watch(?!) and it was at the horrid fucking Phillies' stadium (the stadium itself is nice, it's the fans that are unspeakable) so I don't know if I super count it.
...what's making me laugh: There have been a lot of really good Mets memes. We're having a truly dogshit season (after spending the second-most money of any team in the MLB!!!) but it's fine because the specific kind of long-suffering cross that Mets fans bear is truly something else.
...what's giving me hope: This is a personal hope rather than a wider one, but—I'm very bad at keeping friends once they're no longer in immediate proximity to me but on Friday I'm getting on a plane with Mr Asta to Long Beach, CA to go to Warped Tour with a guy I've known for 16 years and on our way home we're stopping in LA for dinner with someone who I first met 17 years ago, lost touch with, and then re-met 5 years later and got really close to. People are an effort! That effort is worth making! I am capable of making it! Gonna text another friend right now actually.
...what's so true to me right now: I've been really stressing myself out with all of the things I want to read/write/draw/paint/play/do and I need to chill the fuck out, really seriously. I will not get to every last little thing but the more I focus miserably on what I'm missing, the less my brain will allow me to do.
