or maybe I just resent him because of Dispatches from Elsewhere

I started to watch Shrinking but it was so corny and cloying and I hated everything about the main character so much that I gave up after three episodes. But the rest of the world seems to love it! Am I broken?

at least there was a dog

Then in the morning we watched Supergirl. It was fun enough but had a lot of wasted potential due to poor writing. The character arc was sloppy, the messages about revenge were incoherent, and the ending had a potentially unique character give in to do the expected boring thing. Also, I know the standards for comic book worldbuilding are low, but these were unnecessarily hand-wavey. And I'm frankly tired of gender-based violence being used as a lazy plot device. 

Are they supposed to be the Blues Brothers?

I had never seen Pulp Fiction and Partner A decided to remedy this while we were high. I found myself wanting someone there who was Extremely Nerdily Into the movie to tell me about all the other movie references contained within. (The plot, I have no recollection of now, but I enjoyed it at the time?)

worth what I paid

Free concerts: 

-A duo with drums and an electric cello, singing about the eruption of Mount Tambora.

-A 70s style gospel choir. I introduced Partner A to my strategy of interpreting all Jesus songs as horny or romantic. (Heck, maybe they are, for the same reasons a lot of artists were stuck with religious themes whether they liked it or not?) Anyway, we learned that Jesus was always punctual and "able;" I'd swipe right.

-A traditional jazz trio. I learned I have negative interest in just sitting and listening to a jazz trio; it's great background music, but not to be focused on.

procrastination works

I have small retirement accounts semi-abandoned across several companies due to job changes. I want to consolidate them but not enough to actually figure out the logistics. Helpfully, one of them just consolidated itself: a former employer moved all its legacy accounts to a company where I already have an account! 

remember to be ugly

 How social media can flatten us, because the stories we tell shape who we are.

(The article doesn't get into the ways we curate our own histories to ourselves to give them good narrative arcs, but I found myself doing that a lot more through my early 30s than after I started using social media more. Maybe it's a factor of age- or disability- related nihilism, but I don't expect my feelings and experiences to logically follow from prior events anymore. Stuff just happens! When it does I'll deal with it, but how I go about that won't necessarily have anything to do with or be consistent with what I've done before.)

I live another life

My dreams that take place at "home" are always in my parents' house, even if my kids or ex-husband were in the dream and even though I've lived in my current house longer than I lived there. But I just had one taking place in my actual house! Will it be a trend? (Ironically it was a dream that would have made more sense at my parents', because I was looking to borrow an old computer of my dad's to bring with me to Star Trek camp. There was another camp being held at the same location but they knew where to direct me because I was carrying a large computer.)