My biggest goal for the summer has been to distract myself. Here are some of those distractions.

Books

YA Fiction:

Caraval

Shadow and Bone

Seige and Storm

Ruin and Rising

Picture Books:

We’re All Wonders

I Live in Tokyo

The Pigeon Needs a Bath

We are Growing

Poetry:

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Nonfiction:

The Complete Guide to Yoga Inversions

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women

Make Trouble

Men Explain Things to Me

The Mother of All Questions

Graphic:

Vampire Knight v.19

Movies:

Horror-

Kwaidan

The Witch

The Handmaiden

The Host

Housebound

Alien, Covenant

Train to Busan

Kuraneko

The Prowler

Black Christmas

Sisters

Rabid

Ugetsu

Frailty

Mushashi Miyamoto

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

Demonia

Dawn of the Dead (remake)

Two Evil Eyes

Action-

Baby Driver

A Touch of Zen

The Hateful Eight

Seven Samurai

Wonder Woman

Dragon

Atomic Blonde

The Dark Tower

Comedy-

Bad Moms

The Fundamentals of Caring

The Incredible Jessica James

Anime-

My Neighbor Totoro

Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic

Drama-

Dunkirk

Documentary-

Blood on the Mountain

 

Musical-

Anything Goes

Video Games:

Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Arms

Mario Kart 8

 

Podcasts:

Nerdist

Stuff Mom Never Told You

Yoga Podcast

Hellbent for Horror

The Savvy Psychologist

The Film Vault

Yogaland Podcast

Yoga:

Vinyasa Flow

Beginner Aerial

Power Pilates

Power Flow

Power Yoga

Yogalates

Inner Strength Yoga

Inversions Workshop

Heated Core Power Yoga

Restorative

Heated Vinyasa

Hatha

Hot Flow

TV:

Vampire Knight

Good Morning Call

Hemlock Grove

iZombie

American Horror Story

Glow

Archangel

Music:

Audio, Video, Disco by Justice

Woman by Justice

Shadow by Chromatics

Dreaming Dreams by Pino Dinaggio

Stranger Synths

Stranger Boy by The Weeknd

Learning Japanese with the following apps:

Memrise

Kanji!

Japanese!

Easy Japanese!

Hello Talk

Japanese

Meditating with the following apps:

Simple Habit

Calm

 

 

Working with Kids:

Marionette Making

Shadow Puppet Making

Graphic Novel Writing

Picture Book Writing

 

Writing:

Writing more PINKpoems

Working on Barbie erasures and collages

Writing an essay on fortunetelling/feminism/film

Received one acceptance and many rejections

Published one chapbook and have another forthcoming (soon!)

Submitted and submitted

 

What are some of your distractions? Leave comments. Maybe I can distract myself even more in the upcoming months.