I went hard on Stardew Valley for a while, but I haven't played it in a long time now. That's pretty par for the course for me when it comes to non-portable sim games like that, though. I like to be SO thorough about optimization that if I know I don't have the time to dedicate to a game, I don't bother and usually end of restarting later.
I binged it for a little bit and burned out in season 3, I think. I'll definitely pick it back up again, but damn it's nice to see a cool TV show with lots of female leads.
It's definitely not perfect and drags occasionally (like shows that attempt way too many twists in too short of a time without enough explanation tend to), but I was really into it overall. I love Helena, mostly.
I was stung by a horsefly as a kid and remember that hurting pretty badly. I had to literally grab it and pull it off of me, which isn't a fun thing to have to do as a little girl. I've never been stung by a bee or wasp or anything, and now I'm worried I've hyped it up so much in my mind that I'll just have a heart attack if it ever happens.
Summer bugs also bite me about 5x more than other people, so that's awesome. I get weird allergic reactions ranging from 'looks like I got hit by a softball' to 'ew ew oh my god why is it swelling like that'. I never figured out if some are mosquito bites and others are spider bites. They're all pretty gnarly.
I already walk 3 total miles a day to and from train/subway stops for work every weekday, so it gives me something extra to do! The kids I teach love to talk about it (it's precious when they can't quite pronounce certain names, I tell them tales of when I was a kid in the 90s and Pokemon was the new fresh shit, we play argue about what teams we're on) and no one in my life is being a debbie downer about it.
Back around November I listened the the entire soundtrack through youtube videos while following along with the lyrics and bought it on iTunes as soon as I finished. Like plenty of people I didn't go into it thinking "Maybe when I'm done I'll read the entirety of The Federalist Papers!" but there you go, that's what Hamilton does.
I'm also super glad I know about Eliza Hamilton now. She's such a great woman in history and I had no clue what she did or who she was until I listened to Hamilton. Pippa better GET THAT TONY or I'm going to lead a one-woman riot into New York City. She's unbelievably talented.
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