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TV: I have started watching Murderbot! I am intrigued by it! Skarsgard is doing really good at displaying Murderbot's discomfort and the team gets nicely fleshed out. I am cautiously optimistic. The fight scenes are less horrifying than I was imagining.

Real Life:
In other, sadder news, over the last week, a very dear friend of mine has been dealing with the sudden illness and death of a dear friend of theirs (not someone I knew directly). Since we are each other's emergency phone call buddies for a lot of stuff, that means, while I was in no way attached directly to the person who just passed away, I have been doing a lot of emotional support over the phone and I am feeling the general sadness of human fragility and loss rather than missing a particular person. But he was about my age, and he got sick and died and there's just a whole lot of grief swirly around me even if it's not mine.

Work has been incredibly intense due to hosting events on site, so I have had a lot of traveling to the site, sleeping in a strange place, and doing pointless customer service to support a branch of my org's team that needs people to help manage the events. The whole thing seems wildly pointless.

What I've Read
Oh I have read nothing. Slightly behind on the year to date goals

What I'm Reading
He Who Drowned the World – Book club re-read
The Ministry of Time by Kailane Bradley – 25% ish, it’s kind of The Terror fanfiction
Hunting Toward Heartstill by Blackkat -about 45%
My Favorite Thing is Monsters -Emil Ferris – over 60% - okay this is turning out great.
The Antarctica Conspiracy Derin Edala – slightly on hold.
Someone You Can Build a Nest In – John Wiswell – 15%

What I'll Read Next
Hugo Nominees are out!
Track Changes
The Deep Dark
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2
The Tainted Cup
Alien Clay
Service Model
The Ministry of Time
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way
Monstress, Vol. 9: The Possessed
Navigational Entanglements
The Butcher of the Forest
The Hunger and the Dusk: Vol. 1
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
The Brides of High Hill
We Called Them Giants
The Tusks of Extinction
“Charting the Cliff: An Investigation into the 2023 Hugo Nomination Statistics”
“Signs of Life”
“By Salt, By Sea, By Light of Stars”
“The Brotherhood of Montague St. Video”
“Loneliness Universe”
“The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion”
“The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea”
“Lake of Souls”