little joys

the things i liked in the month of march

i had plenty of time to ponder the things that brought me joy this past march since i was basically on bed rest most of easter weekend and i felt the compulsion to share them with you. ~enjoy~

music

• adrianne lenker came out with a new album called bright future and it’s beautiful. i recommend you listen to it in totality on a bright spring morning when you can hear the birds singing. the songs free treasure and no machine are the ones i currently have on repeat.

• on the other end of the spectrum, paradise by snowsa has also been on my mind since it was gifted to me by the spotify algo (my discover weekly has been HITTING this month).

books

• i just finished Sula by Toni Morrison and it was the first Morrison novel that i had ever read to completion. it ruined me and i highly recommend it. #girlhood!!! #sistersbeforemisters

• i also read and adored Stefan Zweig’s The Post-Office Girl. if the curse of capitalism brings you to the brink of insanity on a daily basis, you will enjoy and relate to this book.

  “It was as though someone had sprinkled venom into her eyes while she slept, so that now she saw the world in its light: everything was ugly, malignant, and hostile when viewed with malignant and hostile eyes. She began every day in a rage.” - Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

***i track and review (very unseriously though, so be forewarned) all my reads on Storygraph if you’re curious!!***

miscellanea

• falling asleep before 10 pm every night.

• becoming a freshly minted 28-year-old!! 🥳 usually, i mope around melodramatically on my birthday (typical pisces behavior) but not this year for some reason.

• wearing vests. with big pants. with skirts. with shorts. vests x everything.

• SCHOOL GOSSIP. i have always been a huge proponent of *healthy* gossip (which is really, imo, just the act of spreading useful information), but school gossip is another beast. and since working at a school, i’ve been privy to so much juicy juicy information. maybe i’ll write about some of it someday…sensitive information redacted of course.

• mobility routines: i want the knees of a 25-year-old at the ripe old age of 70.

• THE NEW YORK TIMES CONNECTIONS PUZZLE. every day i look forward to making my little connections and exercising my little brain cells.

i hope april brings us even more things to be grateful for (and that mercury retrograde isn’t too hard on ya).

we all envy him

take care, luv u~ <3

-b