This dissertation is brought to you by…

A running list of things/people that have been sustaining me for the past year, in no particular order:

• Mac’n’cheese
• Childcare, both affordable and not
• Nap time
• Spotify
• Google Maps
  
• My personal map of Palermo
• Video calls
• My laptop
• Historical sewing YouTube

• Netflix
• Facebook Messenger
• Tiny Snek Comics
• Sarah’s Scribbles
• Interlibrary Loan
• Remote access to JStor
• Pictures of my children
• Videos of my children
• Pinterest
• Never opening Instagram
• Weekly check-ins with friends
• A very supportive partner
• My minimal Italian skills
• Crochet
• Gizmodo blogs
• Lactaid
• Spices, but especially cinnamon and paprika
• Potatoes
• Lycamobile
• smartphones (honorable mention: headphones)
• accessible mental health care
• Steam
• walking outside
• this blog

Surprising omissions from this list:

• Tea
• coffee (seriously, I thought that both parenthood and dissertating would make a coffee drinker out of me, but apparently not)
• WhatsApp
• Amazon
• sugar (my body thanks my brain)