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Movies I've logged:
Hamilton (2020) ★★★★
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) ★★★
Clue (1985) ★★★1/2
The Old Guard (2020) ★★★1/2
DuckTales: The Movie – Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) ★1/2
The Rescuers Down Under (1990) ★★★
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) ★★★★★
Beauty and the Beast (1991) ★★★★1/2
The Fifth Element (1997) ★★★
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) ★★★1/2

Also I already reviewed it up there but I'm going to talk about exactly one trope thing in The Old Guard, so spoilers for that –

( The Old Guard, but exactly one trope in it )

Anyway, I guess in real life, but also extremely not -

( covid talk, but it's just about my dreams because they've been weird )

In actual real life, things continue to not be very different. varadia has to go back to the office which is annoying but mostly not really… frightening? Because she doesn't have to use public transport and the precautions being taken do seem essentially adequate. Meanwhile I have no idea what will be happening with my job any time soon when it comes to that, I don't see how in the near future we can approach anything close to what was normal before this, so… I'm glad my employer at least seems to be resisting any rush back to normality but also the perpetual uncertainty isn't that fun! But again I know I'm better off than so many it's hard to. Whatever.

So you know, reading, watching movies, etc.

And so looking for something to put in my book series spot, I read the first Murderbot book and did not decide to continue, cut for being negative -
( All Systems Red )

And then I read A Wizard of Earthsea which I liked fine, but as I approached the end I was just thinking 'idk this is fine but I'm not sure I want to read however-many-books-are-in-this-series of it' and then at the end came around to 'maybe I could come back to this but I need to read something else first.' So I started N.K. Jemisin's The Killing Moon and I am really liking that.

I also read Amy Poehler's memoir Yes Please and that was also fine. On the scale of celebrity memoirs, it's certainly more coherent than a lot of them, but it also ultimately reads like a series of blog posts. It's also not exactly Poehler's fault that the constant namedropping of Louis C.K. doesn't exactly read well now but. Reading this also coincided with what seems like a lot of shit coming out of UCB, so maybe not the best timing.

And because there always has to be a Star Wars book in the mix, I read Star Wars Myths & Legends, which I had been hoping would be something like in-universe fairytales from the SW universe, but ended up just basically being short stories that were sometimes additional stories about existing characters. Which I guess is what I should have expected but was still disappointing, and I wouldn't say I found any of these particularly interesting, but, for details –

( Star Wars Myths & Legends )

And also we finally finished playing Jedi Fallen Order and I really liked it a lot! Once the actual emotional story became clear. Which took a bit, maybe partly but not entirely because, uh, I suck at playing combat video games. But I'll write that up later.