— A walk to the library. She returns two books and picks up three more. The librarian recognizes her but doesn’t say anything about her work. That’s why she likes this branch.
— An hour of guilty pleasure: old episode of Forensic Files on low volume while she does a jigsaw puzzle. “It’s stupid,” she says. “But my brain needs stupid sometimes.”
She doesn’t check it.
“People think the hardest part is the physical stuff,” she says, unwrapping a rice cake with almond butter. “But the hardest part is staying present without losing yourself. You’re giving parts of yourself to the camera, to the scene partner, to the director, to the audience. Break time is when I take those parts back.”