marking time
+ a list of books I finished reading, January to June 2023
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It might just be the phase of the pandemic we’re in but I’ve noticed, for the last year, that I mark time in all of these ways. By biweekly clients. By when my nails need trimming. When the animals’ claws are too long and all three need trimming. By semi-regular acupuncture appointments. I mark time by annual physical exams that have to happen one year plus at least one day after the last for insurance purposes. By the school calendar, different from my own childhood, this one being mid-August to early June. I mark time in the fall by the birthdays of family: two in September, one in October, one in November (me, the outlier, in May). Marking time by the last time we had our annual party where we invite everyone over to make tamales the last Saturday before Christmas—2019.
