Excluding programming stuff needed for work* I haven't read a book by a white dude all year, and I'm not particularly dying to go back to them after my challenge is over.

I've read SHIT-TONS of great stuff by POC and women and queers (and, obviously, all the possible overlaps of those things), and I've also read more overall than I have in a long time.

(I did finish the book I was in the middle of at midnight Jan 1, but that was Chernow's Washington biography, and thus directly influenced by my Hamilaria.)

* it's also made me realize that supporting tech stuff by women is just as great a need, maybe greater -- the necessary exception I made to get the job done just makes me even more pissed off when the Only Definitive Book On Blah Blah Code Library is yet another dude. Step it up, tech publishers.

I am feeling definite fatigue with Straight White Guy narratives in any medium at this point. Feeling like that ground is well and truly covered.

Aw, can't we have another "I'm an asshole, but I'm just so damn talented!"

Is it all the crime fiction and mysteries?

Yep. And I'm over it! I mean, I'm not over crime fiction, but give me Karin Fossum.

So I did a super half-assed job of vacuuming two rooms, but guess what it was? Better than nothing!

Jesse you've read Dana Stabenow and Laura Lippman, yes?

Y'all I have 2 boxes ready to ship to people, I got part of my brother's Christmas to my parents who are flying there next week, I have a small pile of things to get listed on ebay today, I vacuumed the back room, AND I just did a pretty thorough cleaning of the garage. Still not quite able to get both cars in comfortably but I only need to get rid of a few more things or clean out the final corner and somehow make space by consolidation. So excite.

It was poetry that dragged me seduced me into reading writers of color, primarily women: Lucille Clifton, Edwidge Danticat, Rita Dove, Naomi Shihab Nye, etc., etc. Jane Kenyon and Mary Oliver, too, and others. But while YA and fantasy and scifi brought women--Piercy, McCaffrey, Norton, McKinley, LeGuin, Cherryh and others into my life it was poetry that opened me up to POC.

3 eBay listings up. It's a little more challenging doing it on my phone, but I'm gonna get more done.

Dinner is going to be black bean, corn and green chile dump with queso on the side. No work.

Jesse you've read Dana Stabenow and Laura Lippman, yes?

Oh yeah. I have stacks of Lippman. Stabenow I've mostly read from the library.

It was a beautiful day here and I spent the afternoon in a laundromat because a cat decided to pee on the bed while I was cleaning the litter box.

I've kept my reading weighted toward women and POC for the last six years. Intentionally so for the last four.

So someone invited my mother to a grief workshop that is apparently about being a medium or whatever. I said it's in Florida in January, she should just go!

8 listings up now and pics taken for 6 more.

If I can keep this up, I might get a chunk of mac's old toys up and a bunch of yarn or fabric. Thus far this is clearing out the last of my Lularoe over buying from last year.

As is always the case, I wish I had another day in this weekend.