#i should also lend you the raw shark texts whoops

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9 and 14?

9. Best month for you this year?

HOO good question!! the second half of this year was ROUGH (broke my leg, moved out of a stressful home and into a house that needed. so so so many renovations, had to reschedule the move because of that, family health emergencies, you get the picture) but the beginning of this year was amazing. i travelled A LOT. Im caught between March, when i travelled to Wolfville and Canning in Nova Scotia for work, both places i had lived when i was young, and April, when i travelled to Halifax and Moncton on my own for the eclipse, and had an amazing time finding art and good food everywhere i could for a couple days. In the end I think April wins out, not even for the eclipse but for the experience of planning and executing a trip like that on my own.

14. Favorite book you read this year?

Im using this answer to specifically plug my current read, When its a Jar by Tom Holt, to you specifically, which i was going to do when i saw you tomorrow anyways. Its a fantasy about a normal guy in London who slays a dragon by accident and just generally seems completely determined to evade his destiny solely by wholeheartedly believing that he is Not A Hero. it is ALSO about a man who is trapped in a glass jar without his memories, who wakes up and works out the basics of the universe (gravity, time, the water cycle, what those things on the end of his legs are, etc), only for an entity to appear and inform him that whoops! you have an infection. and to treat this infection we have to take your memory away again. for the 248th time. 248th times the charm, though! its also about the multiverse. how these things all intertwine i am piecing together as we speak, but i am only about halfway through the novel right now. it reminds me both of discworld in that its an irreverent british fantasy deconstructing a basic concept of society (in this case Organizational Bureaucracy), and of the raw shark texts in that its doing something fucky with the idea of The Universe and what it means to inhabit and therefore become a part of it. HIGHLY recommend, if i finish it before i see you tomorrow you can borrow it!!