2025-06-16

What I’m Reading

Following Sue Jackson’s Big Book Summer Challenge, I’ve been reading Wayne A. Rebhorn’s translation of The Decameron. It’s a surprisingly breezy translation! And the individual stories are short enough that it always feels like I’m making progress.

What I’m Watching

• I’m halfway through The Pitt and it’s a contender for show of the year for me. A little overwrought but extremely well done.
• Finished Dept Q last night and it was pretty good? I mean, it’s extremely watchable in the moment but if you give it even the slightest bit of thought, you can kind of see the guff? Also, it’s an American showrunner adapting a Danish book into a Scottish setting so it’s all a bit of a mix but can we please not use the phrase “I could care less”? Thanks!

What I’m Playing

My Switch 2 arrived and it’s been great! Except it only really has one game released so far, Mario Kart World, and the high-level play on this has already left me behind, so I’m going through old Switch games I missed first time around. Right now, I’m playing Jenny LeClue, a lovely fun cozy mystery.

What I’m Making

I recently upgraded my pizza oven into one with a much more spacious opening, so I’ve been trying to up my pizza game. As I type this, I’ve got 8 dough balls in the fridge on a 72 hour ferment. The last batch I made came out great, except note to self: the opening of the oven remains suuuuper hot even after the heat has been off for a while. Gave myself a pretty solid second-degree burn the last time I made pizza.