I learned to braid a single plait down my back just now. Something that despite roomfuls of female cousins I never learned so that's one for me, universe.

Things I Still Don't Know How to Do:

swim

• drive a car


• make rice without burning the bottom of it


• frijoles de la olla (dunno what to even call this in English and I'm too lazy to look it up)

I have about fifty years or so to learn how to do these things and they're basic, right? I should get the hang of them. In regards to things I should have learned fifteen years ago:

• play the guitar


• learn to sing and play the guitar concurrently


• not to let relationships define me


• braid a single plait down my back

write every day

What do I need to learn right now?

• the California Drivers Handbook


• the Golden Rule


• how to be alone with my thoughts


• people with ADHD/ADD probably need complete silence to be efficient and I might as well accept that

even if I'm not the best candidate for marriage or motherhood, I can still work on being a damn good writer, right?

to breathe without getting the urge to play "Breathe" by Anna Nalick and pretend I'm 12 years old

that I need to write like I'm running out of time