Keep up with my content consumption and other activities week by week by reading my quarantine diary on Instagram.
Books
- Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (my 4th by him)
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (my 2nd by her)
- Belgravia by Julian Fellowes (and watched the miniseries)
- Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (my 6th by him)
- Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
I'm one book behind on my reading goal for the year, and it does not help that that book is the 850-page tome Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.
Podcasts
In January, I finished The West Wing Weekly podcast.
My audio obsession of the moment is the You're Wrong About podcast, which I've listened to in its entirety (91 episodes) in the space of a month.
Now that I'm caught up with You're Wrong About, my next podcast of choice will probably be Ologies by Ali Ward.
Puzzles
While I voraciously consume episodes of You're Wrong About, I busy my hands with jigsaw puzzles. The following are puzzles I've completed since April:
- Eight Arms for You (1000 pieces, a few days)
- Mammals With Mohawks (500 pieces, one day)
- Potato Chips (500 pieces, two weeks)
- Dog Gallery (1000 pieces, a few days)
- Vegetables/Légumes (1000 pieces, a few days)
- Owl with pentagram (500 pieces, a few weeks, did not finish)
- NPR Podcasts (1000 pieces, two days)
- The New Yorker: A View of the World from 9th Ave (1000 pieces, a few days)
- NPR: Sound Community (1000 pieces, a few days)
- Geo Toys: Brooklyn magnetic city puzzle (100 pieces, an hour)
TV (aka things I watched at home)
Series continued:
- Call the Midwife: season 8
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: season 7 (ongoing)
- The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj: volume 6
- Steven Universe: season 5, movie, and follow-up series Steven Universe Future
- Black Mirror: season 5
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: season 3
- Star Trek: Discovery: season 2
- The Politician: season 2
- Sex Education: season 2
- Dead to Me: season 2
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: various episodes here and there
- American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson: all (rewatch inspired by You're Wrong About)
- Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (1 and a half times)
- Ever After (rewatch)
- Parks & Recreation special
Series started:
- Breaking Bad: seasons 1-4 (with Cricket and Mark in person)
- Big Little Lies: season 1
- Killing Eve: season 1
- The Good Fight: all (4 seasons)
- Castlevania: all (3 seasons)
- Unbelievable: all
- The Stranger: all
- Hollywood: all
- Mrs. America: all (while texting Cricket as we watched simultaneously in our homes)
- Star Trek: Picard: all
- Star Trek: Short Treks: all
- Fosse/Verdon: all
- Belgravia: all
- The Great: all
- Upload: all
- Ilana Glazer: The Planet Is on Fire
- One Child Nation
- Downton Abbey movie (on a plane)
- Crazy Rich Asians (on a plane)
Movies (streamed):
- The Laundromat
- Late Night
- Bombshell
- Bad Education
- Whitney Cummings: I'm Your Girlfriend
Live-streams and virtual watch parties:
- NYMAAC watch parties: Ant-Man and the Wasp, The 13th, and Just Mercy (via Netflix Party); Where'd You Go, Bernadette? (with the Page & Popcorn Book & Movie Club via Kosmi); West Side Story (via Kast); Jagged Little Pill (via Facebook watch party)
- Puffs: 3 consecutive Fridays in April of virtual staged readings from the Puffs! canon
- LGBAC "Home Together" and "Marching With the Band" series
- Breaking Bad: season 5 (with Cricket and Mark via Netflix Party)
- Saturday Night Seder
- Dar Williams on Susie on Sundays
- Judy's Live on Instagram
- @Laurateachesyoga live on Instagram
- Return to Mostly Sondheim
- My niece's piano recital
In-person viewing
Movies (in theater):
- Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker (w/Kathryn)
- Little Women (w/Page & Popcorn)
Live theater/shows
- Hamilton on Broadway (2nd time, with family)
Things I did
- Went to Hawaii with my parents and Cricket
- Played in one concert: QUO Soliloquy of Dreams, Ian's first concert as artistic director
- Performed and volunteered at LGBAC's Drag Bingo fundraiser at Slate
- Two trips to NJ for NYMAAC service events, and two more for socially distanced pool parties
- Celebrated 15 years as a New Yorker and 4 years at my current workplace, and turned 40
- Went on 0 dates
- Doodled Chicago and Washington DC
- Got into a habit of taking regular long walks, and then out of that habit
- Mourned the loss of Car2Go but welcomed CitiBike into my life
- Taught some basic music theory to 3 people and led an online trivia night for 13 people
- Adopted 2 new plants (string of bananas and echeveria) and kept all my other plants alive, and the cats are still alive too
- Recorded percussion tracks for 4 virtual performances (Can-Can and Les Toréadors for QUO, Baba O'Reilly and Bad Guy for LGBAC)
