Want to read: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman 📚
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Me at 5 am: It’s fine, I’ll take a nap this afternoon.
Me at 5 pm: Why would I nap when there’s Bring It On fanfic I could be reading?
🔖 Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020: disheartening, but not surprising.
🔖 Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020 - Roguelikes reflect not only the cycle of the pandemic year, but also the cycle of chronic illness.
Here are my goals for 2021:
- Learn about pain management & find pain management that works for me.
- Read for pleasure & talk about what I’m reading.
- Learn for pleasure & talk about what I’m learning.
Don’t @ me about SMART goals. Do @ me about what you’re reading/learning.
Want to read: Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning by Tom Vanderbilt 📚
📚 Friends, there are at least two modern retellings of Jane Eyre coming out this year: The Wife Upstairs and Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost.
🔖 Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us I will never not appreciate Ed Yong.
🔖 The Vaccine Rollout’s Known Knowns and More In Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter, Whitney R. Robinson explains the intersection of exposure, infection, and fatality risk and how it interacts with vaccine prioritization.
🔖 The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable I don’t have a word for how this article hit me, but it hit me hard.