Finished reading The Starless Sea (affiliate link).

So much to say about this book but too tired to say it now. Planning to write a full post tomorrow.

📽️ Watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

I remember when this came out hearing friends debate about the extent to which it was a rehash of the first movie, with most people feeling like it had little new to offer. I liked it and found it fresh enough, but I think I’ve only seen the first one once when it was in theaters.

I like how there are only a couple of new dynamics here - one of the nice things about a sequel is that mostly everybody knows each other already so they can spend more of the movie doing stuff, not just running around adding new members to the team.

Baby Groot is precious, Mantis is adorable, Drax is hilarious, and I was sort of less interested in everybody else this time but, like I said, I did like it.

📚 Read House of X #1.

I’m excited about this book and the Dawn of X relaunch event. It’s nice to have a clear starting place to get back into X-Men comics.) (I pretty much bailed after Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1.)

I get my Marvel comics on a six-month delay due to reading them via Marvel Unlimited. I’m looking forward to catching these (and cosplaying as Captain Kate Pryde from Marauders.

Currently reading: eBay for Dummies by Marsha Collier 📚

I just audibly gasped because Splash is on Disney+.

Had a dream that my committee required a year to read my dissertation between submission and defense but nobody told me until I had submitted, and that’s why I’m reading the SILS doctoral handbook at 4 am. (4 weeks. It only requires 4 weeks between submission and defense.)

Every time I go to Blue Bicycle Books in Charleston, SC, USA I’m delighted by this sign they place on the shelf with the Chronicles of Narnia.

Raging because I don’t understand how OneDrive is supposed to work and thus lost more than half of the work I did yesterday.

Mom dreams: this morning, I dreamed I had to save Michelangelo, who was trapped in a collapsed Roman sewer, and reunite him with the other Ninja Turtles (Casey Jones was down there too and he was no help), and also I had to buy a new car seat.

My kid paints these giant abstract paintings; I call him my little Rothko. I cut hearts out from 2 paintings for him to give to his friends as valentines.