Average screen time this week: 2h30 (not as bad as I thought it was)
Movies watched: Obsession (2026), The Hunger Games (original trilogy 2012-15; rewatch), The X-Files: I Want to Believe (director’s [terrible] cut), The Lego Batman Movie (2017), Cast Away (2001; for class)
TV Shows: Silo (season 3 finale), The Vampire Lestat (episode 2)
Books: The Nerd Reich by Gil Duran (started & finished), Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (85 pages in), The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (70 pages in)
I’ve also ordered a bunch of books I’m excited to read–planning a possible special topics lit course for next fall and catching up on some old and new science fiction (about intelligence, tech, eugenics, and AI… lots of ideas brewing).
We almost got a second cat today. I kind of want it, even though I said no more pets ever. She was just a baby and she’s so cute and I’ve always wanted a black cat and… someone stop me please.
Strange Simulacra 