Didn’t quite manage a dry January this year (as I have the past few) but I decided to do a dry February - the idea to “Take A Month Off From Drinking To Improve Your Health All Year.” Yes, February is the shortest month of the year but it already feels like the longest. Especially this past week. As a friend put it, “it’s like we get all of winter’s greatest hits in one week.” Extreme cold, ice storms, two blizzards and a snow emergency and we’re heading back to extreme cold starting tomorrow. Tomorrow will make five days of weather related school closures for my son’s school in 2019. And I was supposed to teach my class at the college tonight but that’s been cancelled as well.
An author I enjoy, Jasper Fforde, has a new book coming out next week. The timing for Early Riser is pretty perfect with all this very wintry weather:
In a world where winters are long and brutal enough that 99.9 per cent of the human race choose to hibernate, naive-but-intrepid Charlie Worthing takes a job as a novice Winter Consul, part of an elite force tasked with the safekeeping of those slumbering through the season.
No hibernating for me just yet even though this is all wearing me right out. Tomorrow is Friday, at least. And the divine 2 Dope Queens will have a new special on HBO. Saturday night I get to see Boy Harsher again and this time with Kristina Esfandiari’s NGHTCRWLR. Sunday two of my loveliest friends are marrying each other and my son and I are baking some of our specialties for the wedding. Got to get those sparks of joy where I can.
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