A Natural Scientist

Dr. S: Five wires?  FIVE wires?  How? WHY? One outlet,  one switch,  one fixture....
[Somewhat later]
Dr. S: What are you doing?

 So my in-laws are moving here permanently in 9 days and I both advocated for this and am glad. However.
First,  I acknowledge that I am a bossy,  take-charge kind of person.
But second: there are many moments when I am forcibly reminded of my mother in law washing the (new, unused) disposable silverware before my BIL's wedding while the rest of us frantically set out the CHAIRS and TABLES and FOOD....

These Deadly Prophecies: teen sorcerer has to figure out the mystery of her mentor's death.  Fun,  well written,  not scary.  Recommend.
Vaster Wilds: book club book which manages to be both grim and wholly unrealistic,  as if the author had never set foot in a woods.  Hated every page,  0/10, definitely not for me....

Between keeping track of the children's activities and needs,  my in laws closing on a house here in a week, the city board I now run, work fires, plumbing repairs, and everything else.... well, it could always be worse but it's a lot.
So naturally today I suddenly came over all peculiar and had to lay down for most of the day,  because that was my body refusing to let one more barnyard animal in the house....