I'm still working through Moby Dick (very dense book but I'm enjoying it).
My non-fiction read atm is Plutocrats - The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland.
Figured I might as well understand what is happening even if I don't like it, lol. It's a pretty intellectual slog but I'm doing all right. Chrystia Freeland is amazing.

How to know you are living in a dystopia without hearing "You are living in a dystopia."

Honestly, I cannot even fathom the world anymore. It is now controlled by a small, elite group of people, mostly men, who have more money than sense and where 'progress' is idolized at the expense of safety and what may be best for humanity. 

That's all I'm going to say but I couldn't resist commenting on this absurdly apropos headline. 

And now back to regular escapist programming ;)

I did not think I would be so hyped for this space mission, but I happened upon the launch when I was bored and found it quite exciting and very nostalgic. As a kid we’d watch all the rocket and space shuttle launches, sometimes in school, and it was pretty freaking cool.

Now, as an adult, it just boggles my mind how they can do this sort of thing, and calculate so precisely how to make everything go exactly to plan. I watched the re-entry and splashdown to make sure they did make it back okay, because, again, I was expecting something to go wrong, merely because I couldn’t imagine that everything would possibly work as it was supposed to. 

But it did, and they are safely back home. I’m not sure how practical this kind of space exploration is, considering all the stuff going on on the planet itself, but I did find it gave me some sense of optimism and encouragement that in some things, humanity might actually know what it is doing.