July 2022 Monthly Wrap-Up
July was A Month. I worked a lot and had a lot of places to go. I also did a fair amount of fun stuff (minor league baseball game, Mean Girls Broadway tour, cookout for the Fourth, etc), but felt pretty awful during most of it from pushing so hard… and then I rounded off the month with two ER visits and a nice little hospitalization (sarcasm, it was awful and we are burning my “lucky” medical socks).
This month I’m…
Reading: Tokyo Dreaming, Emiko Jean (DNF). Beetle Bunker, Robert Elmer (reread). Changeling, William Ritter. The Thousandth Floor, These Dazzling Heights, and The Towering Sky, Katharine McGee (rereads). Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber. Everything Sad Is Untrue, Daniel Nayeri. We Were Dreamers, Simu Liu. Before Takeoff, Adi Alsaid (DNF). Winterhouse, Ben Guterson. Mosquitoland, David Arnold (reread). The Phantom Tolbooth, Norton Juster (reread?). Book Lovers, Emily Henry. 14 total.
Listening to: Podcasts–the Unpublished podcast; The Manuscript Academy podcast. TSITP soundtrack. Come From Away. Heathers. The 5SOS Youngblood album and Sabrina Carpenter’s new album. See my full July playlist here.
Watching: YouTube–The Frey Life. Movies–What About Bob; Love and Gelato (DNF); Black Widow (rewatch); Where the Crawdads Sing; The Booksellers (documentary).
Writing: I sent Things We’ve Lost off for a round of professional edits, and I’ve also been researching agents and workshopping my query letter, which is so exciting!! I did volunteer work with the Diamonds Conference and People Hope. I also wrote songs, wrote letters to pen pals, and toyed with the idea of opening my own healthcare content agency.
Buying: Clothes (lol oops). A cute port cover. More neutral color claw clips.
Grateful for: Getting caught in a summer storm. Fresh produce from the church garden. Good conversations with our People Hope volunteer team. Seeing a chipmunk. The neighborhood kitty visiting me. Piano time. Space to “do nothing” creatively. The sheepdog at the hospital. Seeing my favorite nurses.
What did you do in July? What have you been reading lately? How are you feeling about August?
