• Louise Glück
• Maggie Smith

mid-March and April; spring equinox March 19

• clean house!
  • laundry
  • dust
  • clean the floors
    • ✔ bathroom
    • kitchen
    • ✔ living room
    • hallway
    • bedroom
  • ✔ goodwill trip
• ✔ arrange fresh flowers (white spray roses, white hydrangeas, moss balls)
• make a fritatta
• bake a tea cake (grapefruit poppyseed cake)
• go to the farmers' market for seasonal vegetables (herbs, sprouts)

news literacy

• read 224 news stories on Washington Post (double from last year)
• find a new favorite news source
• find a really good news/educational podcast
• have two news/educational podcasts in my top 5 on spotify wrapped

new music

• don’t have Taylor Swift as a top artist ;)
• listen through more discographies
  • ✔ Noah Kahan
  • Hozier
  • Lake Street Dive
  • The 1975
  • Leon Bridges
• try a new genre (jazz/blues)
• do some music history

books

• Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
• Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

movies

• American Fiction (2023)

television

• Sense8 seasons 1 and 2
• Invincible seasons 1 and 2

songs

• Sarah's Place by Zach Bryan and Noah Kahan
• Home by Good Neighbors
• End of Beginning by Djo
• Anywhere with You by Maggie Rogers

albums

• I Was / I Am (2021) by Noah Kahan

listened

• Lake Street Dive
• Noah Kahan ♥
• Maggie Rogers

to listen

• Leon Bridges
• Hozier
• The 1975
• Eliza McLamb
• Sammy Rae & The Friends
• Chris Stapleton
• Bleachers
• Paul Simon

saving for

• permanent bracelet (~250)
• roomba

miscellaneous

• ✔ free people tiered white lace skirt - poshmark
• ✔ orange tweed jacket (for research presentation)
• ✔ Marc Fisher Hadya pump - light blue
• ✔ le mini macaron “petit bouquet” gel nail polish set
• ✔ with gift card pavoi silver jewelry
• adidas women's SL 72 sneakers - pink and green
• Offseason Athletics 'ring the bell' cream tshirt (30)
• local eclectic rainbow beaded necklace
• alo yoga airbrush streamline bra tank
• The Philly Tarot Deck
• tower28 SOS facial rescue spray

blue, green, cream, mixed bamboo & walnut wood tones

• ikea
  • coffee table - lunnarp or nordeland
  • kivik ottoman - gunnared blue
  • grapalpmal duvet cover - beige
  • daksjus plant stand - small and large
  • manalg woven wall lamp
• houseplants
  • crassula ovata
  • lemon-lime philodendron + disco ball hanger
• light blue and white textured throw pillows for sofa
• light blue throw blanket for living room
• green velvet cover for floor pouf
  • or two light blue poufs - homegoods
  • or textured blue and white pouf - homegoo...

• black knit sweater-blazer
• white, black, colored t-shirts
• "dad" fit/loose denim shorts
• tank top or short-sleeve swing dresses
• sweatpants/joggers
• lightweight mohair cardigan
• colorful mules/flats

• the mafia in the United States
• 'The Troubles' - Northern Ireland
• the ethics of doing the right things for the wrong reasons
  • children’s privacy regulation / COPPA
• vampire stories in literature - history, as metaphor, as romance
  • Edward Cullen video essay
• Nirvana & Cobain - influence on music/pop culture
• infantilization of adult women (i.e., “girl math”) vs. “reclaiming girlhood” and embracing historically undervalued feminine interests
  • https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/digit...
  • many, many substack essays
  • Code Switch: 'Taylor Swift and the unbearable whiteness of girlhood'

Trust by Hernan Diaz

• dross - worthless
• gregariousness - social
• antinomy - a paradox
• irascible - easily angered
• fastuous - arrogant
• ardor - passion
• abstemious - self-controlled
• august - respected
• vertiginous - dizzying
• lacunae - a gap

The World According to Color

• iniquitous - unethical