How did you spend your spare time this month:

* AA: eating, hanging, not reading, not cooking, being with people, meals with friends 

* MM: celebrating my birthday for weeks and weeks, flowers!, loving on my peeps

Best/Worst:

* Best MM: my immersion blender is having a moment (read: she is bringing me iced matcha at home, whipped cottage cheese, caesar dressing), walking around the Tidal Basin with my mom ~wholesome~

* Best AA: Night of 1000 Alex’s / the apple coffee cake from Kingston Bread + Bar 

* Worst MM: Buffalo & Bergen (honorable mention to the Panera Supercharged Lemonade which we were actually prohibited from purchasing by a Panera manager herself).

* Worst AA: the opener for Betty Who - Slayyyyyyyyter / mass events in DC like the kite festival 

Spare Time Recs:

* AA: Girl & The Vine - ps nobody let me into a buy nothing group 

* MM: Poems to prep for National Poetry Month (April!) Pick up a new collection (Chrome Valley by Mahogany L. Browne, A Working Life by Eileen Myles, God Themselves by Jae Nichelle), follow @poetryisnotaluxury and @omiamifestival on IG, listen to The Slowdown

Culture / 3 Things You Need to Know:

* Sweet Enough is here–what do we think?

* How Do You Read So Much - or, musings on Spare Time 

* Life is Easier With a Fake Assistant?

Look Ahead:

* AA: my knitting class starts next month! Outside time, back into the reading groove and waking up early groove 

* MM: it’s time to move to Miami for a month—bye!

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