KJ

1. I was good and got my flu shot today. We rewarded ourselves with boba tea afterwards. I have only recently discovered boba tea, mostly because I realized I didn't have to have actual boba in it (or any other toppings). It's just a nice sweet milky tea beverage.

2. I'm almost caught up on Arrowverse -- pretty much only the season finales to go. Just in time, too, since Batwoman premieres on Sunday.

3. The downside of all this TV watching is that I'm barely reading right now. But I did go to a reading by Annalee Newitz last Saturday, where they read from The Future of Another Timeline and answered my question about their favorite weird fact learned from book research with the story of Sol Bloom, a politician who initially became famous for his role in the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. And this Saturday (tomorrow), I'll be seeing Marie Brennan with forestofglory. So it's not like I'm lacking in things to read once I'm done.

The wind picked up and our local air is finally better, hooray! We also bought an upgraded air filter for the furnace, then let it run on the fan setting for several hours, and that seems to have helped. Still, I'm glad that it supposed to start raining soon (late Tuesday night in the current forecast).

In part to get into a cleaner air environment, and in part because I've been curious to see it, T and I went to see Widows. It was a really good movie, but it was a lot darker than I was expecting. This is not a light, fun heist caper -- it's a violent and thrilling crime film, with twists and turns and real scares and lots of awful, awful people, and you will probably walk out wanting to ban all men. But I'm still very glad I saw it. The acting is stellar, from an amazing ensemble. Definitely worth seeing in a theater, if you're at all interested.

One quick content warning: there is a very cute dog in the movie, and the dog is occasionally in danger. ( Not a significant spoiler but in case you need to know. )