January

1: the changing landscape as we chug through northern New Mexico
2: chatting with my seatmate
3: making good on our vegan pizza and ice cream outing
4: street musicians and bubble blowers in Washington Square Park
5: blue-purple clouds and tangerine-pink sunset sky over a landscape of snow-covered trees
6: making sick beats on my first day
7: (a return to) sweating it out in the gym
8: patching together bits from other songs' drum lines as inspiration
9: a dinner date...
10: some morning cuddles with the doge
11: getting a couple books from the withdrawn cart
12: a lil goodbye kiss outside Ross
13: Q&A movie night (Call Me by Your Name)
14: "Qu'est-ce que tu fait, monsieur?" "Je pense de toi"
15: befriending his friends
16: making (vegan paleo) pancakes together on a snowy morning
17: lunch with the trek group's two other vegans
18: utterly losing myself after 10 mg of edibles
19: homemade peppermint hot chocolate after a long walk in the snow
20: the crew video-chatting me to include me in the reunion
21: Key & Peele skits
22: a mandatory lecture as an excuse to go inside the new building for the first time
23: happy gender confusion (the drag show)
24: staving off starvation with a pack of fruit snacks
25: vulnerabilities after dark (even the most painful ones)
26: weird get-to-know-you questions
27: mint tea with agave
28: return to Chewing Gum
29: some sweet Bojack stickers
30: pizza party hangout as we listen to a mix of everyone's songs
31: kidnapping* (babysitting) a dorm neighbor's dog for a spell

December

1: a story about a teenage girl DJ (with all the regular high school angst of your standard YA novel)
2: working together on our time capsule
3: a group-discussion interview
4: going to open mic night to see a classmate (and others) perform
5: cena de celebración and roasting peeps (including each other and our prof)
6: Billie Eilish - when the party's over
7: when scrolling through the plethora of comedy subgenres on Netflix is more entertaining than the movie we finally ended up watching
8: casually starting~ Swahili lessons on Duolingo even though *i HaVe FiNaLs PeOpLe WhAt Am I dOiNg*
9: working together on our time capsule, pt. II: staking out a booth in Wilson & setting up our display
10: exchanging 2019 top songs mixes
11: screen-recording clips from my favest movie evah to use for a video essay
12: "Shame" by the Avett Brothers
13: browsing the Main Street shops for gifts
14: braiding bi flag-colored ribbons (blue, purple, & pink)
15: laughing with my friend's grandma at a garbage Hallmark movie
16: eating together at a vegan diner in Brooklyn
17: successfully falling asleep on the train
18: walking with my brother around the mostly-deserted UNM campus
19: erryting is erryting (memories of learning Jamaican Patois with my friend)
20: lunch (@ Cheba Hut, a.k.a. stoner subs) with my brother's friends
21: rating best, worst, fave and least fave Schoolhouse Rock multiplication songs
22: sippin' that tea together (literally and figuratively)
23: listening to an audiobook on hair dyeing day
24: an entire day of taste-testing and eating homecooked delicacies
25: How to Stop Time
26: braiding Kwanzaa-color yarn into my hair
27: getting my brother a new dashiki
28: adding some new artists to the holiday playlist (Chronixx & Lizzo)
29: the new (2018) Grinch movie
30: Green Eggs and Ham joking on vegans
31: walking to the duck pond with my brother and his friend