January
1: going to my folks' for a New Year's feast
2: vegetable stew
3: revision work during the last, unbusy hour
4: powerhousing the better part of a near-400-page book
5: learning the "manual" checkout system during a half-hour internet outage
6: return to Minecraft
7: unintentionally ending up in the university area in my southward journey
8: Gregory Alan Isakov's cover of the Lumineers' "Salt and the Sea"
9: listening to tunes while out on patrol
10: transferring my book post-its to a spreadsheet
11: derpy feminist comics
12: In Five Years
13: making a vegan BLT
14: the Riverside trail reminding me so much of the no outlet road along Otter Creek
15: going on a bean spree
16: toying around with my coworker Rebecca's banjolele
17: weird city finds, like Cap'n Crunch inside the fingers of a latex glove
18: my coworker Alysa trash-talking the suburban hellscape that is Rio Rancho
19: pot pie: breakfast, lunch, & dinner
20: a novel about writers doing writer things
21: Tramway biking
22: finding a Polaroid nude in a box of donated books
23: skate shoes & 2013 Monstercat vibes
24: Well Played
25: donated movies with written notes inside the cases about dates watched & impressions
26: coming back to GTA after many months and finally completing a mission I failed half a dozen times
27: when my opinion of a book drops down to 2 stars upon reading reviews from fellow dissatisfied readers
28: Pixar animated shorts (Out, Twenty Something, Far from the Tree)
29: black-eyed pea and collard tacos with apple-avocado salsa (from the cookbook Isa Does It)
30: beans on waffles
31: It Ends With Us
February
1: The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window pilot
2: Izi's first snow (& closing work early)
3: believing it wasn't going to be a murder mystery
4: lounging around the house in oversized sweatpants
5: slammed on a Saturday
6: a vaguely Bronteian horror of madness and magic
7: Matt bringing up the Village Green Preservation Society after seeing the old yearbooks that got donated and getting "People Take Pictures of Each Other" stuck in my head
8: a discussion, prompted by an AskReddit post, on most unattractive male names
9: teaming up against the anti-mask lady (sort of...)
10: riding through Los Ranchos
11: a Regency-era historical romance, full of unnecessary soap-opera drama and cringe
12: juggling with Jeremy
13: playing with a rake and ball found out on patrol
14: a Valentine's night in, listening to Gregory Alan Isakov while I cook myself a meal and read a romance novel
15: childfree representation in romance fiction (shout out to Jen DeLuca + Well Matched)
16: psychological fiction (of the amnesia variety) gone thriller
17: playing fetch with Chop on the beach in GTA V
18: Ammonite
19: wearing my hair in a different style
20: dumb drama on a Netflix dating show
21: open world exploring
22: ideas for character improvement
23: when our most devoted regular returns three times in four hours
24: the "old-timey" language in Tipping the Velvet
25: paved paths flanked by wild brush
26: little bro coming in for a visit + getting a library card
27: online jigsaw puzzles
28: commiserating over the car theft experience
March
1: steadily getting more and more of my coworkers obsessed with the Seterra countries typing test
2: the beautiful, contemplative tracks from Rough and Rowdy Ways
3: family bonding through geography quizzes
4: adding crispy oven-baked tofu atop a noodle stir-fry
5: surprise that some of the Here Comes Science album is an actual vibe
6: TR girls meetup
7: racing each other on the typing tests
8: ---
9: going to the OG with a craving for spring rolls and chow mein
10: renewing my Rio Rancho library card to get some CDs (that ABQ doesn't have)
11: Jarvis posting a video on Love is Blind & me getting it now that I'm involved in the subreddit drama
12: staying up past midnight with Gregorian chants and a text on theology
13: Sunday rush keeping us on our toes
14: "from Zeus to Jezeus" (from the text linked below as "this theology book")
15: coming up with & comparing top 10 favorite albums lists
16: going out to dinner with coworkers
17: lunch & a bosque walk with the grandparents while they're in town
18: Angles by the Strokes
19: agreeing on the... rough quality of a new group member's writing submission
20: a novel about a portal into a parallel life
21: still loving this theology book despite the fact that the author used a quote from Marianne Williamson as an epigraph
22: catching up on Zak George videos
23: a morning winter wonderland that all but disappears by noon
24: feeling decently confident about a cover letter (& my qualifications relative to the job description)
25: return to the Riverside trail (bushwhacking through the bosque & passing Tingley Beach)
26: serving as the guinea pig for the NM trivia quiz
27: the retro-artifacts-in-resin countertops at Anodyne
28: an accessible book on the psychology of bias
29: watching Jarvis and Jordan react to a "race swap" reality TV show
30: a fortuitous meeting with the owner of the animal rescue where I adopted Stanley
31: successfully clipping a dog's toenails for the first time
