Watched: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4E8, Orders of Magnitude 📺

Honestly, I appreciated the break from gimmicks, even though gimmicks are very fun. Feels right that this was a Kirk-heavy episode in the week of the franchise’s 60th anniversary.

📝 Tiny Week(s)notes (idea by @brie@social.lol):
📖 Sweet Starfire by Jayne Ann Krentz, The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. Went to indie bookstore book club for Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian and had a blast.
🎧 Fated Mates always.
📺 Hacks 😍.
🎮 The Room series.
🌱 Picked out plants for the deck that spouse planted.
🍿 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Jurassic Park (still iconic).

📝 Tiny Weeknotes (idea by @brie@social.lol, introduced to me by @cygnoir@social.lol)

📖 Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas
🎧 Fated Mates, Tarot for the Wild Soul
📺 DS9, Shrinking
🎮 Disney Dreamlight Valley, Pokemon Pokopia
♟️King of Tokyo, MLEM
🧩 Book of nonograms, Puzzmo crossword archive
💪 One Just Dance song a day
💤 Sleep: Not great, Bob
👩🏻‍🏫 Kimberstatus: Stressed by work and family health on both sides of our household

💬📺🖖🏻 “I’ve learned that I am a lot.” S.A.M., Starfleet Academy 1x08, “The Life of the Stars”

Me, watching Starfleet Academy: Oh my gosh Holly Hunter is so tiny! So cute!

The Internet: She’s an inch taller than you, Kimberly.

🖖🏻📺

💬📺 “The thing, Hastings? Do you think Poirot concerns himself with mere thingness?” Season 1, Episode 2, “Murder in the Mews,” Agatha Christie’s Poirot

📺 Watched The Residence.

So great! A country house mystery where the country house is the White House. Uzo Aduba is wonderful, as always. Full of fun actors in smaller roles.

📺🍿 How I Met Your Mother co-creator Craig Thomas wrote about the influence the movie A Christmas Story had on the show.

I replied with this:

This has me thinking about the voice-over narration in The Wonder Years, beautifully done by Daniel Stern. A Christmas Story (which for years my dad would put on for its 24-hour marathon) came out in 1983. The Wonder Years ran 1988-1993. What other films and shows use this device? (I think maybe 8-Bit Christmas does?) Are they all doing the same thing with it? What does it do that stories without flashback voiceover don’t? I would read the heck out of a smart pop culture essay about this.

📺📚📓 Read The Great Experiment: race and authorship in Shonda Rhimes’s Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story by Claudia Calhoun (Adaptation).

This is an eminently readable and beautifully argued journal article.

📺 Watched the DS9 episode, “Destiny,” and I feel like the Bajorans could really benefit from reading Oedipus Rex as an object lesson in the futility in attempting to avert prophecies.