The waiting game
Hello. It’s quite a day. I am only here to give you some things to do that are not about the el*ct**n:
Take a walk. Or a run! I have gingerly eased my way back into running lately, using this app, which I have almost completed. It doesn’t make you run more than 3 days a week, and it focuses on building up endurance in terms of time rather than distance, so you can run as slowly as you need to.
Make this pasta with wilted greens, bacon, and a fried egg thing that I made last week for dinner. I almost cried, it was so good. Then watch a delicious food movie.
Watch The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix, which I watched over the past week and thoroughly enjoyed. It is a great show about that thing that happens to, I am guessing, most of us: You’re really good at something, and that natural talent carries you for a while. Then you reach the outer limit of that talent, and you have to decide whether to panic and self-destruct, or to get humble and start actually working. Also, it is narratively surprising at every turn (every time I thought I knew what was going to happen next, something else did). Also it has great outfits. Suitable for teens and up, I’d say.
Get off Twitter/Facebook/probably Instagram at this point. If you’re not getting paid to track election returns obsessively, then you are positively borrowing trouble, and whether or not you pay attention to it, the results will be the same. If you must, just find a reliable source of information. (That reliable source of information is almost certainly not television.)
Instead, did you know that Whose Line Is It Anyway are on this random CW website, for free?? Like whole years of full episodes. You can also get the CW app for your Apple TV, and probably other apps too, and they’re all on there. Laughter is the best medicine.
Okay, one thing worth reading: For those who think a lot about evangelicals and the election, Tim Dalrymple’s editorial at Christianity Today is very good.