Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

29 If you were given an extra day every year to do whatever you want, what would you do?

Well, I've sort of just had an "extra" day, and I think I spent it pretty well.

I woke up early, and I didn't get out of bed right away but I also didn't stay in bed so long I felt bad about it, which I sometimes am prone to doing when I have too much unstructured time. I did some work on the first of my two midterm essays (I'm finding it very weird that essays are not a terrifying and life-consuming thing, after last month! they're back to normal amounts of demanding and difficulty but normal feels weird now).

I went to the Portico Library with a couple people from my writing group, who it was great to catch up with even if they did keep misgendering me -- the group is an offshoot of the WI I used to be in, and even though it's not associated with that now, it is still all women except me, and it's mostly not people I know really well so maybe they forget or maybe they're just suffering from the "women and non-binary" problem you all so eloquently helped me understand the other week.

Amd then I helped take some stuff to the tip, I had excellent Chinese food for dinner and watched Picard, and now I'm going to bed!