COMPLETING, ever so slowly, a puzzle I had made from a photo I took a decade ago at the county fair. It’s harder than I thought it was going to be!!

CONSIDERING buying a DVD player and a membership to my local video rental store, and replacing streaming with DVDs.

COUNTING down the days (60!) till the Michael Jackson biopic premiere, the return of gym flowers, and warmer weather and spending hours each day outside under the sun.

ENJOYING an episode (or half of one) of The West Wing each evening after dinner and charmed by how funny it is (I’m actually laughing out loud), and surprised by how much of Hollywood was on this show, either as regulars or guest stars.

FEELING vindicated as hell, along with all my fellow lifelong conspiracy theorists.

LISTENING to nervous system regulating music while either reading or doing word searches for an hour before dinner each evening instead of scrolling, watching TV, or listening to a podcast. Big recommend.

LOOKING, still—endlessly!—for a new therapist.

LOVING the first signs of spring in the Trader Joe’s flower department.

KEEPING a spreadsheet of words I encounter in books I read that I don’t know, that I’ve forgotten the definition to, or that I can use properly in a sentence but can’t articulate a clear definition to. (I’ve been doing this since I was teenager, writing each word’s definition in the margins. Since I now read only library books (finances, the economy, cost of living, etc.), I’ve started keeping a spreadsheet of these words, a change in approach inspired by this tweet.)

MAPPING out potential summer 2026 hikes.

PREPARING to launch a monthly puzzle exchange at my gym. I’m so excited!

READING through the Epstein Files via jmail dot world, a brilliant project that began as a way for people to read every released Epstein email as if you’re logged into his gmail account, and that has since expanded into a suite of cloned apps.

SHOPPING for new bikini bottoms and finding it impossible to find cuts and patterns that I like.

USING the shit out of my library card (I’ve read 10 (!) books so far this month!).

WONDERING if other languages that use the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals routinely refer to a number (0) as a letter (O), for example when speaking a phone number (five-oh-three v. five-zero-three) or time (six-oh-seven v. six-zero-seven). Is this just an English thing? Do languages that use different alphabets and/or numerals have a similar practice?

WORKING my way through this word search puzzle book.