Today, I took in:

the rest of The Fifth Season — so good!

I made:

a trip to a park in which to read my book

Today, I took in:

more of The Fifth Season

tennis!

I made:

a very little bit of writing

it through many queues to get into Wimbledon, where I saw a little bit of tennis and ate a Pimmsicle before the match was rained out

Today, I took in: 

the first section of “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ We Were Eight Years in Power

the first few chapters of The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

several episodes of the second season of GLOW

the rest of Poirot: Sad Cypress

I made:

a simple lunch I used to make all the time when I lived in Rome, which made me nostalgic

a post-lunch snooze in the sun of the garden

Today, I took in:

George Saunders’ “The Semplica-Girl Diaries” and Lauren Groff’s “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

a third of Poirot: Sad Cypress

a bit of Richard Ayoade’s The Grip of Film

I made:

a start on a new piece at choir — a medley from A Chorus Line, really fun to sing

Today, I took in:

a couple episodes of Blackadder

the boring part of the Croatia-Denmark game (i.e., between the first two goals and the penalty shoot-out)

I made:

some bookshelf organizing, a thing I can always get into

Today, I took in:

Julie Otsuka’s “Diem Perdidi” in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

I made:

a quick swim in the Brockwell Lido

a fun night of dancing to all Prince tunes

Today, I took in:

Nathan Englander’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories

I made: 

a really fun night of karaoke with my choir

Today, I took in:

the second half of an episode of Queer Eye

the first third of the England/Belgium game at a pub

I made: 

the trek up to Hampstead Heath, where I swam in the ponds and sunbathed in the fields in the glorious summer weather

Today, I took in:

the rest of “The Case for Reparations” in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power

I made:

a call to a friend, after a long time of us trying to find a time to chat

Today, I took in:

half of “The Case for Reparations” in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power

half an episode of season 2 of Queer Eye

I made:

a foray into the beguilingly easy world of M&S “Dinner for Two”