Birthday selfie from yesterday in my South Square Mall - oops I meant Starcourt Mall - hat.

Finished reading: Carrie by Stephen King 📚

I don’t recall the last time I read a book inside of 24 hours.

Me: I don’t know what to do! Should I spend the next 45 minutes reading CARRIE or playing METROID?
W: I like the 80s, too.

Posted on my birthday in 2018:

Yesterday I found out that my thyroid is out of whack again. I’m trying to remember everything I learned before, not just about how to heal, but also how to cope.

plus ça change…

🔖📝 Read On Writing with Chronic Migraines (Catapult) by Yuvi Zalkow.

I really appreciate Zalkow’s metaphors for pain and tiered system for deciding what work to do. This may inspire me to create my own spreadsheet of task levels.

🔖 Read Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed (Catapult by Ravynn K. Stringfield.

I always love reading what Dr. Stringfield has to say. This is, in a way, a scholar’s origin story, and I love it.

🔖 Read Video Games Are for Everyone—And That Should Include Disabled People (Catapult) by Allyssa Capri.

Great discussion of where the gaming landscape is with respect to accessibility, plus resources for disabled gamers, and it ends on a positive note.

I keep asking myself, “When will I not be too tired for x?” and it turns out my thyroid hormone levels are suboptimal so now that we’re upping one of my meds doses I really hope the answer is “In about 6-8 weeks.”

The past few years, I’ve written a blog post on my birthday about who I want to be that year. My birthday’s in 2 days & as I look back at the past year, I’m too exhausted to come up with new thoughts on who I want to be. I’m going to let last year’s stand.

Most of the time the answer to not having enough storage is to get rid of stuff, but with books, I tend to feel the answer is more bookshelves.