Partial List of Things That Have Happened in the Past Two Months, No Order

made friends with a crab on a black sand beach

watched young artists present my play! they did a fully choreographed dance to LWYMMD!

protested ICE and fascist government overreach

activated against Big Oil at City Hall with my climate group

wrote a Toy Conglomerate commercial

finished a different Toy Conglomerate project

very dramatic discussion in the back booth of Y_ R____, I can’t get my head around it and had to go back a week later, to think and eat mozzarella sticks alone

a promise from a director, the director dipping

a promise from a producer, the producer might have to dip

but the treehouse meeting

attention and ghosts, attention and ghosts, ghosts, two of them

The Campbell soup can with my mom

night walk from my sister’s on solstace

rainbow celebration of life

four trips to Portillos, or was it five

the seriousness of AI across tables

the silliness of gabbing on a porch as dusk falls, about pride and patriarchy

fancy fancy drinks in WeHo with boss

fancy fancy dinner in WeHo with boss and boss

download with my friend the newly famous stand-up

download with my friend the newly divorced businesswoman

watched a billion TikToks of that Hoodie Allen song

cried to hearing “The Scientist” live, lights all night, banana slurp following, digging the tunes with the rambling bassist

strawberry bubble tea with my sister

Dusty and Lav, we all murmur at the vegan diner

Jia’s fantastic, free pool party, forgot my sunscreen, forgot my swimsuit, forgot the names

office hours at my knoll

AM scheduled then bailed on lunch three times, it doesn’t bother me, everyone is insane, but I wish he’d done it before I ordered our expensive sandwiches

SW looking snatched, picking at her nachos, concerned about Mark Ruffalo

long pool lays listening to Tunnel Vision or reading Zami, finished Doppelgänger at the coffee shop, in the corner

wrote goddaughter at our summer camp

Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 2

Talked Cobra off a cliff from her cousin’s pool house in Santa Monica

Improved musical about Leonardo DiCaprio

clacking at the substack

encouraging Cass, she can sleep until 2

pastries every morning off the lake -- biscuit, cinnamon donut, coffee cake, almond croissant

karaoke room and facials, bench in an elevator

Chicago storm at the art museum

Chicago storm at the fancy restaurant with the cheese board

Dave & Busters with Lo, beat some teens at Mario Kart, air hockey

Taco Bell Cantina, met that actress, told her I was her for Halloween even

text argument with Shellz, but it’s funny, it’s funny

I Know What You Did Last Summer and Sorry, Baby and Final Destination at the movies

recognizing I may have been put on the planet to be present

watched the Zelda Ocarina of Time walk-through for the Shadow Temple, when Link finds the lens of truth

walking in the neighborhood at golden hour

If your ex man got a problem he can test me / I'm a good fella, Joe Pesci