May 4, 2024

Something I thought about:

• Campus protests and Palestine. I ended up back on Twitter/X to follow what was happening and found so many people I’d missed. I have extremely mixed feelings about the social media side of things and am straight up devastated about what’s happening in Gaza and here.

Something I did:

• Followed the news — student reporting, live feeds, etc.
• Work: meetings, planning, writing
• Listened to the new Kendrick tracks like the rest of the internet
• All of the usual running around and juggling work with parenting with home stuff
• Took daily walks
• Wrote

Something I read:

• We Loved It All by Lydia Miller
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• The House of Being by Natasha Trethewey
• caught up on the War and Peace slow read
• Finished the following slow reads:
  - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  - The Preparation of the Novel by Roland Barthes
  - This Little Art by Kate Briggs
• An appreciation of Paul Auster by Lucy Sante
• That piece linked to a long profile/obituary of Auster’s late son Daniel Auster, which was just really awfully sad
• A tribute to Paul Auster by Jonathan Lethem
• “The children who remember their past lives” by Caitlin Gibson