August

1: Bonza
2: shoe painting
3: learning about the ship the album Mignonette was named after
4: piggyback through the bosque
5: peachy sunrise, orange midnight moon
6: already recognizing some new places thanks to Google street view
7: driving tour of Charlotte with my roommates
8: games and chatting with some people in my hall
9: playing a space shooter video game while it storms outside
10: watching workplace safety videos and wishing they were the JonTron parody
11: biking down a tree-lined street toward uptown
12: visiting other Habitat builds in the city
13: putting up posters he sent me
14: hammering up in the attic we built
15: him taking me along virtually on his commute to work
16: meal prepping for the week
17: busting into the boarded-up house next door (and immediately reinstalling the locks)
18: installing cabinets
19: settling for "good enough" on nitpicky adjustments
20: the fact that the caulking gun has a hook that perfectly fits ladder rungs (very helpful while up on the ladder)
21: glovin' up for tub scrubbin'
22: trying out chairs at the ReStore (or, "Sweet Seats" irl)
23: 100 Humans
24: putting in new doors
25: random and slightly creepy findings among the things left behind in the abandoned house
26: finding lined-paper pages of an unknown person's novel
27: getting into the deep existential discussions with my work teammate
28: jamming to Akrasia while rolling some fresh paint on the walls
29: new desk setup
30: black bean sweet potato chili
31: talking about my options