I’m still recuperating from my stress cold/manuscript hangover, but am starting to pick up the pieces of my routine again. Today I made my first real to-do list in weeks, and actually did a good two-thirds of it: I rehung some curtains rods, made a couple overdue appointments, caught up on email, and took my first online spin class on an old exercise bike we got the other day off Facebook Marketplace. (I’m on a trial of the Peloton app, which lets you stream the classes with your own equipment, and I think I finally understand the appeal.)
I’ve also started posting to my Instagram again, and will be cataloguing all the books I read this year, and hope that doing so publicly will be just enough of a nudge for me to choose reading over other activities like obsessively following election news. At the time of my writing this, I’ve only posted two books so far, but have a backlog from January that I’ll be putting up later this week. I generally advocate staying off of social media altogether, but if you’re going to be on Instagram, you can follow along here.
