March is the year’s most tragic and most inspired month. Here are Bwog’s favorite beverages and locales, products and purchases, books, films, albums, and experiences of the past 31 days.

We’re eating and drinking…

  • York Peppermint Patties
  • Maple syrup in coffee
  • Almond croissants from Hungarian eaten in the 111th St People’s Garden
  • Chocolate soy milk juice boxes… milk boxes?
  • Passionfruit green tea
  • Sourdough toast with peanut butter and honey
  • Mac and cheese at 3 am
  • Trader Joe’s meringues
  • Mini M&Ms
  • Oatmeal with apples and Justin’s vanilla almond butter
  • Unfrosted blueberry Pop-Tarts
  • Chocolate mailed to me from home
  • Lemon La Croix
  • Homemade vegan tarts
  • Lemon poppy seed loaf
  • Chamomile tea
  • Wine while hammocking
  • Asparagus, since it’s asparagus season!
  • Matzo

We’re listening to…

  • Vinyls while cleaning
  • Adrianne Lenker’s album songs
  • Post-rock, trying my hardest to find the exact vibe I’m looking for
  • The Tenet soundtrack for studying
  • Alicia Keys, specifically her latest album ALICIA omg so amazing
  • Ravyn Lenae’s Crush EP
  • Everything Kali Uchis
  • The Mountain Goats (finally)
  • The We’re Having Gay Sex podcast
  • The Beatles
  • Live albums
  • Singer/songwriters of the 1990s and early 2000s, who are the backbone of society
  • Dave Malloy. That composer is insane but genius.
  • The soundtrack to High Maintenance on HBO
  • Sean Kingston
  • “Bachelor No. 2 (Or, The Last Remains Of The Dodo)” by Aimee Mann
  • The first four Silver Jews albums
  • The On This Day in Esoteric Political History podcast
  • This American Life
  • The guys doing construction outside my window
  • chipmunks on 16 (iykyk)

We’re watching…

  • Generation on HBO Max
  • Community
  • Big Time Rush
  • The sunset at Riverside
  • Ted Lasso, and yes it’s as good as everyone says
  • Old episodes of Unwrapped on YouTube ahhhhhh
  • Oscar-nominated movies… they’re not like, great, but watching all of them was really fun
  • High Maintenance on HBO
  • Kids walking to (newly reopened in person!!!) school
  • Arrested Development

We’re loving…

  • America’s Princess Meghan Markle
  • The ship in the Suez Canal and the concept of boats generally
  • 70-degree days, sunshine, and photosynthesizing
  • Our roommates
  • Getting 10,000+ steps in a day
  • Women
  • Glass bottles
  • Saying “Sick!” 
  • Talking to my roommate about love instead of going to class
  • A walk in the park on a Sunday
  • Life is Strange, a game I haven’t played in a while
  • Cloudy skies
  • Laundry baskets with separate compartments for darks and lights that I of course ignore <3
  • Butler Lawn for picnics
  • Running by the water in Riverside Park right before sunset
  • Voting in local elections!
  • Watercolors
  • The new friends I’m making
  • My AC unit, which I turned on for the first time in ages
  • The lamp I acquired by exchanging an earring I lost the pair to
  • Mason jars and insulated metal water bottles
  • Restarting therapy
  • Vaccines
  • My grandparents
  • My free collapsible metal straw from the farmer’s market
  • Extremely foggy mornings
  • Streaming parties with my lifelong friends
  • My everyday nap at 3 pm
  • Driving! I like driving now!
  • The ducks and turtles of Central Park’s North Woods
  • The flowers I buy for myself every week
  • Speaking with my bf in cursive
  • Friendly banter with strangers :))
  • Trains!!!!

We’re reading…

  • Twitter
  • Stranger in the Shogun’s City by Amy Stanley, and loving Tokyo during the Edo Period
  • Through my newly-acquired bedside stack of used books
  • Austin Kleon’s newsletter
  • Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone again after watching the Netflix adaptation trailer

We’re wearing…

  • A new cropped white t-shirt for springtime!
  • Ballerina pink nail polish
  • Curtain bangs
  • Inherited castoff clothing from my suitemate
  • A Harry Styles mask
  • The Columbia masks
  • Conscious Step socks
  • Boyfriend jeans and High Top Converse for literally every outfit
  • Florals in spring  ◡̈  (groundbreaking)
  • The same pair of jeans I’ve worn for 5 days straight

We’re feeling…

  • Settled into that brief period of happiness where you don’t have exams or assignments to do
  • Like I’m becoming the person I needed when I was younger
  • Grateful for the thunderstorms where it rained like hell and mercifully washed away the pollen and flowers of the absolutely devilish Bradford Pear Trees that everyone has for some. damn. reason.
  • Like I’m able to imagine and plan for the future again

Feel free to check out Bwog’s January favorites and February favorites!

“March” by Hendrick Meijer via The Met’s Open Access library