Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 📚

Super fun! Highly recommend.

I’m reading Howl’s Moving Castle. Bit of a spoiler & Miyazaki left it out of the movie (rightly, I think) but Howl is actually a post-ac wizard whose family is v. disappointed he isn’t doing more with his PhD. This delights me. 📚🍿

I’m exhausted. My mom has gone to the ER once a week for the past 5 weeks. My kid has not been in school for a full week since the beginning of the month. I’m still tweaking my thyroid meds. I will gladly accept your sympathy & empathy. I do not require your advice or questions.

Want to read: Ghosts of the Forbidden (Glazier’s Gap Book 1) by Leanna Renee Hieber 📚

I just ordered a 20 ft inflatable black cat. It will dominate the culdesac. I’m kind of hoping it becomes haunted. (RIP The Best Cat, 11/1999 - 6/2017)

My currently-planned NaNoWriMo novel is a YA supernatural rom-com set at musical theatre camp in the late 90s. It miiiiiiight have some autobiographical elements.

You can have all of the research that funding agencies can possibly provide us but if we can’t talk about what it means for our actual lived experiences and put it into perspective with our real lives, it’s not worth much.

• Chelsea Conaboy

I love today’s issue of Publish Not Perish in which Jenn McClearen draws a connection between Joli Jensen’s idea of communal writing and rejecting the narcissistic individualism of the academy.

I just played D&D for the first time in 3+ years and it was so great I almost cried.

🎮 Things from today’s Nintendo Direct that feel like gifts they’re making for me, specifically:

• Theatrhythm Final Bar Line
• Harvestella demo today
• Tales of Symphonia remastered (I never finished the original on GameCube but I loved what of it I played)