culture consumed (December, 2019)

tv

• bits of Warehouse 13 my housemate was watching and then the full episode "Nevermore" (1.11) -- I've heard good things about this show (well, the first season at least), but it reminded me a lot of a procedural and I wasn't in love with it
• Jane the Virgin 3.02-3.08
• [going through My List on Netflix] Always a Witch 1.01 -- which unfortunately turned out to be not good [I think I added it to my list when the trailer came out but didn't hear about the problematics ... though even without that core Problem, it's just not very good]
• [also going through My List on Netflix] Dear White People 1.01-1.04 -- which is great, she says, very late to the party

movies

• The Mummy (1999) -- fannish movie night
• Knives and Skin ("feminist teen noir") with unfinishedidea -- which was more Twin Peaks (she says, never having seen that show) than Jennifer's Body, to my disappointment
• Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker with Thom et al. -- which was technically a movie
• Hallmark Christmas movie Write Before Christmas with my SIL et al. -- which actually grew on me, though it has some stalker-dude elements that it did not in fact need, which unncessarily soured the core cute relationship for me

music

• the Otter Creek album Fiddle Preacher (because Thom posted a YouTube link to "Sometimes You Just Know")
• The Dead Cowboys self-titled album (because Thom posted "Listening to the new Dead Cowboys album. I’m going to be really disappointed if there isn’t a Deutero-Isaiah reference. Also, do I need a Songs By Bible Scholars playlist?")

books

• 6 picturebooks
  (I did some adult-book reading, I just didn't finish any of them in December)

live theater

• ART Moby-Dick (a musical by Dave Malloy and Rachel Chavkin) with Thom and reflectedeve [which was definitely a show]

[2020] begin as you mean to go on

I was invited to multiple NYE parties but didn't really feel like going out. I chilled at home, finally started watching Dear White People on Netflix, and ended up spending the last couple hours of the year in the most delightful of the group chats I'm in.

I then got a reasonable amount of sleep, had a Regularly Scheduled Boundaries And Relationship Check-In Conversation about the polyamory I'm trying to make happen in my life, went indoor rock wall climbing, and went to a Universal Basic Income discussion.

So I guess I'm doing pretty well at "begin as you mean to go on"?