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Some bullet points from the last week or so:

Fanfic: All Young Royals, lately. I am working on the epilogue chapters for Heart and Homeland (trying out a new POV) and a one-shot focused on August, Nils, and Kristina. I might give myself until the weekend or so to finish the one-shot, as the quick dopamine hit of having something to post may do me good, and it’s also good for me to practice shorter form things. Right now what I have down is mostly dialogue. And I’m playing with a setting I love.
Reading: I’ve been stuck in the middle of Don’t Want You In A Best Friend Way and it’s fine but I’m also so not in the mood for historic queer romance where there’s a modern view of marriage-for-love lurking in the background. Maybe a more extended ramble for another time.
Television: I’ve watched the first few episodes of Sort Of season 3 and I’m HERE FOR THEM. Still watching Extraordinary and it continues to be charming.
Cooking/Food: The first grape tomatoes of the year came into the farmer’s market last Sunday! I tried something new and blistered them and ate them in a bowl of kamut with Italian herbs and nutritional yeast. This proved to be a good decision. In other news, I put together some smoothie packs with pear, mango and kale. I don’t tend to eat pear and mango on their own, but blending them into a smoothie with lemon juice, ginger, and matcha powder might be a change of pace. Or it might be vile. We’re gonna try and experiment.
Adulting: I am so behind on my taxes and my FAFSA it’s not even funny.
Teaching: We’re studying Iran in my class now, and I decided to drift away from my textbook and research Iranian women’s movements and then share that information out with my students. Our textbook is pretty decent but it tends to give the Pahlavi shahs credit for promoting women’s rights on their own… without talking about what actual women get up to. And I thought, why not change that? Feels like it’s been a good move so far.
Eclipse: It was cool, and also sometimes you work in a school and twelve year olds are trying to pay their friends 50 dollars to look directly into the sun. Yikes.