📝 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.
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💬📺 “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.
📺 Just finished watching the latest season of Hilda. My heart is so full. 🥹
Apparently my mid-life crisis is mostly watching Derry Girls and thinking, “Yes! That’s exactly what it felt like to be a teen girl in the mid-to-late 90s” while wishing everyone understood that a combination of En Vogue and Enya is the perfect soundtrack. 📺🎵
