Hi comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of March!
We are in the middle of March and there are exactly 2 more full weeks until the end of the month. This is a good time to review your progress so far and set goals or priorities for the rest of the month.
As usual, some discussion ideas:
- Do you want to share something you’ve done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
- What would you like to do next week?
- Which aspect are you currently focused on improving?
- Do you have any streaks? For example, “sober for one day.” Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
- If you don’t have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
- Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?
Good luck with your goals!
I got a job after a few months! I start tomorrow. Hired without a stage so that feels like they need help but, hey, I need a job.
Been chugging along reading. I feel great there. Had a big exercise day a couple days ago and I went bowling after a long time off. So my right hand and arm are sore in the weird ways.
Congratulations on the new job
What are you reading?
thank you!
“Nobody Is Talking About This” - Patricia Lockwood. Booker shortlist. It’s the experience of an online “celebritry” liberal white woman over a few years. Covid, “the dictator”, etc. It’s written in pithy disjointed paragraphs kind of like the author is tweeting it. Then a serious matter with the author’s sister and it’s become a little meditation on that. It’s pretty.
“Salvation: Black People and Love” - bell hooks. I’ve seen ms. hooks justifiably criticized on here but I thought I’d see for myself. I read lots of poc authors for February and this is wrapping that up. I don’t have a ton of thoughts on this book, I don’t think I am the target audience as a melanin-freefolk but it is interesting for the perspective. I had to finish Rashid Khalidi’s history of the war on Palestine as my nonfiction first.
I also have a bookmark in a collection of Maya Angelou’s poems that I’ve been neglecting. Trying to keep a balanced reading load with a fiction, a nonfiction, and a poetry collection this year. And I’ve got some beginner’s theory opened in a couple of tabs that I’ve been chipping away at.
That’s awesome! I’m currently reading How Not To Die by Michael Greger, which is a non-fiction book about the health benefits of a plant-based diet. It’s an incredible book and everybody needs to read it. Also, I think you would enjoy the podcast Overdue. It’s a podcast about books, the hosts are very nice and have good politics