Finished reading: The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚

Listened to the audiobook narrated by Andy Serkis, which I think made it much more enjoyable than when I read it in print 20+ years ago. Highly recommend.

Me, listening to an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation with my eyes closed: “Is that Harry Groener? It sounds like Harry Groener.

opens eyes, looks at screen

Narrator: It was, in fact, Harry Groener.

There’s been some hard stuff this week, but I also went to the pool and had dinner outside on my gorgeous deck with my gorgeous family and that was really great.

🍿 Watched The Company of Wolves. Peak 80s gothic fantasy with a gorgeous score and the grossest werewolf transformations I’ve ever seen.

What’s the most fun thing you’ve done in the past 2 years?

💬📚 “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Okay, Internet. What’s the best way to D&D remotely?

I slept for 9 hours instead of 10 last night (what a luxury, I know, believe me that I give up a lot of leisure time to sleep this much and I don’t like it) and my body is punishing me I guess by giving me brain fog.

A body should not require this much sleep.

But mine does.

The Jiminy Cricket or Frog (of Frog and Toadl in my head: “If you do X, the whole week will go more smoothly.”

Me: “Nah, I’m gonna try and finish up Return of the Obra Dinn.”

Did not finish: A Little Life: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara 📚

Beautifully written. After 400+ pgs of almost non-stop trauma, this book was actively making me unhappy so I set it aside. Definitely search around for content warnings before reading.