It’s practically the middle of May already – I’m still trying to stay on top of this, but we can see it’s slipping a bit. That’s okay! The attempt is the point. Also, I think 1 person at most is reading it, so it’s not like it even matters that much. Anyway. April was fine; it didn’t snow very much, but it also didn’t rain much. I like a lot of rain in my spring. I want to get a little bit tired of rain and grey days. I especially want some real thunderstorm action, so I can sit in my chair next to the window and watch it happen. So far, it has been dry dry dry and also far too hot. I remember vividly in April and May 2020, during lockdown, when lots of things were hard and scary, that the weather was perfect. That whole summer was pretty perfect. Warm-to-hot, just enough rain, perfect deck-sitting weather, not many bugs, and no really bad smoky days, and I thought to myself that it was going to be the last perfect summer. I haven’t yet been proven wrong, and this spring has pre-emptively failed, so yeah. Climate change sucks and I wish we weren’t fucking accelerating it by asking fucking AI how to write a fucking email.

I digress. I got a haircut in April, and it is a lovely return to Good Hair. I asked for an asymmetrical haircut back in the fall and immediately hated it, so it’s taken all winter to grow out enough to be a Robert. If you don’t know, a Robert is an extremely blunt bob. I stole this from Wakanda on a Weekday on Tiktok, who has the best opinions on red carpets, and I recommend heartily.

I have had a string of terrible luck with knitting lately, where everything is going wrong, but I did finish my cross stitch project and I had a blast. I need to block it and figure out how to frame it, but it’s the nine houses from the Locked Tomb and I might be into cross stitch now. Also, TLT is the series made up of Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, and Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, and they’re deeply weird and confusing and gross but I love them all. Alecto the Ninth has been delayed for years and I am waiting impatiently.

Speaking of waiting, Alecto is the last on my list of eagerly anticipated media releases to get news: the Murderbot TV show drops on May 16 (THIS FRIDAY, as of writing) and I am VERY EXCITE. It looks like the creators and actors and everyone involved did their best to make a very Murderbot show, and Martha Wells says she’s happy, so I can’t wait to watch it. The clips from Sanctuary Moon look phenomenal, too, and I hope that they make a very silly spin off. Let’s go Murderbot!

We also got Silksong news at the Nintendo Direct, and I fully admit to huffing the copium but I really hope it releases in June, along with the Switch 2 (we are not getting one; they are tooooo monies). Deltarune chapters 3&4 come out on June 5, and someone in this house is counting down to the minute.

The final thing I did in April is travel to visit my most bestest friend.

Also his owner, my human best friend. We had lots of pastries and did many shenanigans. It was a pretty ordinary time, without any particular Events, and it was perfect and lovely and a much-needed little break. When I came home, even loading the dishwasher was easier. It’s amazing how therapeutic it is to spend five days somewhere else.

So that was April. Not bad, in retrospect. If you’re here and you read this, I would love to know, because it truly feels like shouting into a void. I haven’t done any writing for a while, although I have a new proto-novel bouncing around my skull. If you haven’t read the MG soft scifi novel I wrote in 2023 and you would like to, I can send it to you. It’s shelved for the time being because the market is not in the mood for it. I’m sad, but I get it.