April Update plus April Books (#12)

It was a long, dreary winter, my friends, and it seemed spring would never come, but it is here at last, and I am so so relieved.  I didn’t do too much in April, except work a lot.  Work continues to go really well, which is so weird for me.  I’m used to being the outsider and the troublemaker at work (though not by choice), and while I am still very much an outsider, I am (very) productive and (very) competent.  Shockingly, this seems to matter, and so the bosses love me.  So, um, yay me?  I’m trying to enjoy before it inevitably all goes to shit and I’m the bad one again.

 

 I went to see R one Saturday, which was the total extent of my sociability.  I told you it was a dreary month.  Plus the whole I have no friends bit is still very much the case.  But for May I will see L next week, plus we are going to FL to meet my brother.  I am so terrified.  Thank god I have E, who has really been a champion and so incredibly supportive.  Usually he makes everything about him (Oh, you fell and hurt yourself, it’s all my fault because I should have done something different, so let me tell you how horribly I feel kind of nonsense), but really there’s just no fucking way this can be about him and he has really surprised and gratified me by stepping up and being a wonderfully supportive and sympathetic.

 

I didn’t even read much this month, because it was just too dreary.  Plus I watched a lot of Netflix, including all available seasons of Agents of SHIELD.  It’s probably inevitable that I would love that series, it’s like Jos Whedon wrote it with my personal history and problems in mind.   I love it so much I’m contemplating buying Season 6, bc it’s not available to stream yet.  Anyway, my book numbers look better than they are because I finished a few audiobooks that have been hanging on forever, plus I’m being better about counting the stuff that we read out loud in the evenings.

 

27  The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession by David Grann

 

28  The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

 

29  Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault

 

30  Ilsa by Madeleine L’Engle

 

31  The Hidden Live of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World

 

32  The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer

 

33  The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigle: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis

 

34  The Secret Life of Wombats by James Woodford