Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 02:30 pm
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 02:20 pm
Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo (2010): two things at once. One is a sometimes farcical tale of Paama and Ansige, sincere cook and compulsive overeater; the other, more sober, centers upon a djombi or spirit who is deprived of the chaos stick that---obvious jokes aside---enables his job to be carried out. Despite early information that Anansi plays a part, it's very much a "how" story, not a "what," and (I think) either one appreciates its method/manner/tone or one doesn't.
Others have posted clearer reviews/comments; see e.g. starlady, oyceter, rachelmanija, and rushthatspeaks. For me, there wasn't enough Paama either in setup or during the longish exploration of how Paama and the deprived djombi interact. I liked the djombi-only scenes and the sense of layer(s) beyond the machinations Anansi himself enacts, since Anansi stories account for most of my prior exposure to tales in the tradition where West Africa and the Caribbean overlap.
Others have posted clearer reviews/comments; see e.g. starlady, oyceter, rachelmanija, and rushthatspeaks. For me, there wasn't enough Paama either in setup or during the longish exploration of how Paama and the deprived djombi interact. I liked the djombi-only scenes and the sense of layer(s) beyond the machinations Anansi himself enacts, since Anansi stories account for most of my prior exposure to tales in the tradition where West Africa and the Caribbean overlap.
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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 07:04 am
On Sunday, we finished printing our wedding invitations. And the fiance and I turned to each other and said, "That took much less time than we expected."
Last night, we finished addressing the invitations. And we collapsed on the couch and said, "That took so much longer than we thought it would."
*exhausted, but with completed invites*
Last night, we finished addressing the invitations. And we collapsed on the couch and said, "That took so much longer than we thought it would."
*exhausted, but with completed invites*
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 01:27 pm
These are plot bunnies I'm not going to get to immediately but still want to talk about because otherwise they will keep hopping around my brain and misery is better with company. They're mostly Teen Wolf these days, because what even is my life, but there's a few other fandoms as well.
( Yarncraft fics )
( Various Homestuck Fics )
( Various Teen Wolf fics )
And that's all I have at the moment, which is way more than enough, really. Well, all the fanfiction plunnies I have, at any rate.
( Yarncraft fics )
( Various Homestuck Fics )
( Various Teen Wolf fics )
And that's all I have at the moment, which is way more than enough, really. Well, all the fanfiction plunnies I have, at any rate.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 11:21 am
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 11:55 pm
In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:
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- Sunday, 2356: RT @NoelMcKinney: I want a smart washing machine doesn't start until it tells me I left chapstick in my pants pockets yet again.
- Monday, 0005: My fitbit #Fitstats for 5/19/2013: 469 steps and 0.2 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/23LLYD
- Monday, 0133: @feliciaday You're not the only one. I watch movies and see if they even have women talking to each other.
- Monday, 0133: RT @chip_uni: Dear Princess Celestia, Today I learned that when someone offers you a taste of ghost pepper extract, SAY NO. Your student, C…
- Monday, 0637: @WaPoExpress http://www.readexpress.com/2013/05/an-u
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 10:09 pm
I don't actually know the answer to this question, which is why I'm devoting an entry to it now, and may re-visit it. Would Alison Bechdel's friend Liz Wallace be able to watch a movie about my life?
Obviously I am not the only woman* in my life, and not the only woman of significance -- there are more women around me than just bit players; there are women who I introduce to my other friends by their names (or unique monikers for privacy purposes). Unlike The Shawn Era, I'm doing pretty well here.
I talk to the women in my life. Perhaps not all of them as often as I probably ought (I should call Mama sometime that I'm not hair-on-fire busy) but I do talk to various people, and fairly often for me, even if it's not all that often for each of them.
I talk to the women in my life about things which are not men. Let's explore today.
I talked with![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
norabombay about an entire array of mostly-not-men topics, including dogs, work/job-hunting, food, cooking, and various shenanigans. I'm not sure if His Crumbliness came up at all today.
I talked with my Overlady at work! Mostly this was about the Upcoming Event, but we had a good long debriefing about a number of other things. I think there were two conversations about men: the Stage Manager hasn't given me back my highlighters yet ("Order another set.") and that our Grandmanager's response to seeing me in tears that one time will never not be funny. (There was something stressing me out which touched on work, he was the first work person I ran into, I started to cry, and his face went through this incredible series of truly hilarious gymnastics, which were entirely worth the price of admission.) (The irony of the fact that I'm illustrating the fact that mostly we didn't talk about men, by enumerating the men we did talk about, does not escape me.)
The interlude where I retrieved a co-worker who was in town from Israel for the upcoming Thing, and whose meeting got canceled thus leaving me in charge of Monday's hospitality, and all the related conversations and introductions don't count, as that co-worker was a man.
All of the deeply hilarious administrivia related to the Upcoming Thing counts, because it's the Upcoming Thing, and most of the people I was speaking to about it are women: my Overlady, her Understudy, my manager, the other manager with the fabulous sweater -- we had a great old time making sure that stuff was ready and organized.
I had occasion to be pretty fabulously organized about office supplies. This entry is not the place to go into detail, as it was in support of a talk for some male co-workers.
On my way home, Nora and I talked again, about anything and everything as usual. After I got home and started poking Twitter,![[twitter.com profile]](http://twitter.com/favicon.ico)
amyty and I discussed the fitbit.
And so, to bed.
* For practical purposes.
Obviously I am not the only woman* in my life, and not the only woman of significance -- there are more women around me than just bit players; there are women who I introduce to my other friends by their names (or unique monikers for privacy purposes). Unlike The Shawn Era, I'm doing pretty well here.
I talk to the women in my life. Perhaps not all of them as often as I probably ought (I should call Mama sometime that I'm not hair-on-fire busy) but I do talk to various people, and fairly often for me, even if it's not all that often for each of them.
I talk to the women in my life about things which are not men. Let's explore today.
I talked with
norabombay about an entire array of mostly-not-men topics, including dogs, work/job-hunting, food, cooking, and various shenanigans. I'm not sure if His Crumbliness came up at all today. I talked with my Overlady at work! Mostly this was about the Upcoming Event, but we had a good long debriefing about a number of other things. I think there were two conversations about men: the Stage Manager hasn't given me back my highlighters yet ("Order another set.") and that our Grandmanager's response to seeing me in tears that one time will never not be funny. (There was something stressing me out which touched on work, he was the first work person I ran into, I started to cry, and his face went through this incredible series of truly hilarious gymnastics, which were entirely worth the price of admission.) (The irony of the fact that I'm illustrating the fact that mostly we didn't talk about men, by enumerating the men we did talk about, does not escape me.)
The interlude where I retrieved a co-worker who was in town from Israel for the upcoming Thing, and whose meeting got canceled thus leaving me in charge of Monday's hospitality, and all the related conversations and introductions don't count, as that co-worker was a man.
All of the deeply hilarious administrivia related to the Upcoming Thing counts, because it's the Upcoming Thing, and most of the people I was speaking to about it are women: my Overlady, her Understudy, my manager, the other manager with the fabulous sweater -- we had a great old time making sure that stuff was ready and organized.
I had occasion to be pretty fabulously organized about office supplies. This entry is not the place to go into detail, as it was in support of a talk for some male co-workers.
On my way home, Nora and I talked again, about anything and everything as usual. After I got home and started poking Twitter,
And so, to bed.
* For practical purposes.
Monday, May 20th, 2013 09:40 pm
Monday, May 20th, 2013 11:07 pm
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 11:04 pm
I have 81 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 81 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.
Hit me!
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 08:57 pm
I came home from work and laid down for an hour. This is a bad habit I'm trying to break, on the principle that I could get more accomplished if instead of laying down I sat down and did some crochet or read a book, but I'm getting cranky with myself over how much stuff I need to get done each week and how I should be productive every single minute of the day.
Eventually I got up and changed into gardening clothes (by which I mean a t-shirt and a ripped pair of jeans) and got out to do some work in my garden. I spent about an hour and a half weeding, something that it really needed. There's more to be done, but now at least it looks more like a garden-in-progress and less like an abandoned lot. I'm somewhat depressed over it, still. I had ambitions of being able to feed myself home-grown vegetables from Memorial Day to Labor Day and everything is still so small I don't think I'll have anything harvestable on the 27th. It's a cold spring when collards, radishes, and spinach you planted at the end of March are only an inch tall on May 20th. On the bright side, all my potatoes are up and looking very strong, so at least I won't lack for potatoes.
I'm being tempted by the latest BPAL update--a Lunacy (Honey Moon) and three single notes (Passionflower, some patchouli, and Wild Dandelion). OK, so the patchouli isn't a threat and I managed to talk myself out of Honey Moon and Passionflower, but the Dandelion intrigues me. I'm enough of of a plant nerd to know that dandelion flowers don't have much in the way of scent, so this will be the PBAL perfumer's imagination of a dandelion, which means it could be anything. I find this weirdly attractive. The problem with this is that their postage is so high I flatly refuse to buy only a single bottle from them, so I need to decide if there is anything from the general catalog I want enough to make the whole thing worthwhile. This in turn needs to be balanced against the plane tickets I need to be buying soon and oh yeah, I do keep claiming I want a bicycle for transportation. Choices, I have them.
Eventually I got up and changed into gardening clothes (by which I mean a t-shirt and a ripped pair of jeans) and got out to do some work in my garden. I spent about an hour and a half weeding, something that it really needed. There's more to be done, but now at least it looks more like a garden-in-progress and less like an abandoned lot. I'm somewhat depressed over it, still. I had ambitions of being able to feed myself home-grown vegetables from Memorial Day to Labor Day and everything is still so small I don't think I'll have anything harvestable on the 27th. It's a cold spring when collards, radishes, and spinach you planted at the end of March are only an inch tall on May 20th. On the bright side, all my potatoes are up and looking very strong, so at least I won't lack for potatoes.
I'm being tempted by the latest BPAL update--a Lunacy (Honey Moon) and three single notes (Passionflower, some patchouli, and Wild Dandelion). OK, so the patchouli isn't a threat and I managed to talk myself out of Honey Moon and Passionflower, but the Dandelion intrigues me. I'm enough of of a plant nerd to know that dandelion flowers don't have much in the way of scent, so this will be the PBAL perfumer's imagination of a dandelion, which means it could be anything. I find this weirdly attractive. The problem with this is that their postage is so high I flatly refuse to buy only a single bottle from them, so I need to decide if there is anything from the general catalog I want enough to make the whole thing worthwhile. This in turn needs to be balanced against the plane tickets I need to be buying soon and oh yeah, I do keep claiming I want a bicycle for transportation. Choices, I have them.
Monday, May 20th, 2013 07:53 pm
Brent's in Utah. My moon is dark, my stars are gone.
They'll return eventually.
They'll return eventually.
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 08:08 pm
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Two strands, one of hot pink Red Heart Super Saver and one of sparkle!white Red Heart Sparkle.
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 10:17 pm
Things that are making me happy on the internet today:
& The Daily Mash's commentary on the Tories fucking around with marriage equality: Gay people to continue having lots of hot sex
(Also I am going to be sharing a hotel room with M and he agrees with me about stealing as much food from the complementary breakfast as we can possibly get away with.)
& This gif of a small owl being outraged by a door.
& From the BBC: Dan Brown on 'hurtful' reviews and saving the world. This bears a startling similarity to the Telegraph's mocking piece a week or so ago XD The article summarises his book thusly: In Inferno, Brown reintroduces Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon, who wakes up with amnesia in Florence, Italy, and has to try to save the world from an evil scientific genius while simultaneously evading a crack squad of assassins.
*chokes with laughter*
My favourite part, on researching in Italy:
"We got a secret tour of the Palazzo Vecchio. I had this great experience where I got to the end of a secret passage and you push on this wall and the wall spins and I stepped out into the map room.
"I had pushed my way through a map of Armenia that a whole lot of people were looking at. These were tourists who thought, 'This is crazy, I'm in the Palazzo Vecchio and Dan Brown just stepped out of a wall'. They felt like they were in the novel."
Yes of course you knew what they thought I don't doubt this at all.
& The Daily Mash's commentary on the Tories fucking around with marriage equality: Gay people to continue having lots of hot sex
BRITAIN’S gay men and women have defied angry Tories by taking their gayness to a new and hotter level. [...]
Tim Loughton, one of the Tory backbenchers who wants to win by cheating, said: “Please stop being like this.”
& I am beginning to get massively excited for NineWorlds convention in August. They've just posted the schedule for their Fanfic track. I'm also waiting for the Queer Fandom one, and the Gaming, and Crafting, and Steampunk, and literally everything else.Tim Loughton, one of the Tory backbenchers who wants to win by cheating, said: “Please stop being like this.”
(Also I am going to be sharing a hotel room with M and he agrees with me about stealing as much food from the complementary breakfast as we can possibly get away with.)
& This gif of a small owl being outraged by a door.
& From the BBC: Dan Brown on 'hurtful' reviews and saving the world. This bears a startling similarity to the Telegraph's mocking piece a week or so ago XD The article summarises his book thusly: In Inferno, Brown reintroduces Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon, who wakes up with amnesia in Florence, Italy, and has to try to save the world from an evil scientific genius while simultaneously evading a crack squad of assassins.
*chokes with laughter*
My favourite part, on researching in Italy:
"We got a secret tour of the Palazzo Vecchio. I had this great experience where I got to the end of a secret passage and you push on this wall and the wall spins and I stepped out into the map room.
"I had pushed my way through a map of Armenia that a whole lot of people were looking at. These were tourists who thought, 'This is crazy, I'm in the Palazzo Vecchio and Dan Brown just stepped out of a wall'. They felt like they were in the novel."
Monday, May 20th, 2013 02:34 pm
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 02:02 pm
Le sigh.
For the 1st time in my life I am paying for water by the gallon. I've had a well, I've had a flat rate for all the water I used, and I've had water included in the rent.
My attempts at saving water are slowing driving me insane. All my basement walls are sound and dry. Its a wonderful basement. We love our basement. I'm there now because its cooler than upstairs.
Our yard is a solid slab of clay. It does not absorb water. At the back of the house, we have an old cistern, now filled with dirt and sealed off. there is an old pipe to bring the water in the house. I'm reliably informed they used the cistern to wash clothes up until the 70s, at least. (The roof water filled the cistern.)
Now when we filled in the broken down, moldy cistern, I filled that water pipe up with caulk. The leak came in around the old cistern pipe.
Since I did that, In 3 years, we had one storm so bad that there were a few drops between the pipe and the wall.
Then I started dorking around with the one downspout for the entire house and every time it rained, about a gallon or so of water came in there.
I decided I really do like having a dry, not moldy basement, and I do not want to dig down 4 feet or so, including the area under our A/C, to remove the pipe and cement up that hole for real. And if I did that, the water would find somewhere else to come in.
The papers that came with my rain barrels assumed that my house would have several downspouts and it does not. So the quantity of water is much higher than the manufacturer planned for.
Yesterday, I moved all the rain barrel gear over to the garage. The garage is already damp inside. We don't care if it gets worse. These garages are of such poor quality the city classifies them as sheds and does not even make you get a building permit to work on them, because they are sheds.
The house is back to normal. The original downspout is reinstalled.
The garage does not have gutters. A few years ago, I found some "L" shaped vinyl trim and made a rain diverter over the people door so I could get in and out without walking though a waterfall.
I found a little bit more and extended this down the east side of the garage and its a tiny gutter for a tiny roof. To get the full effect, I should get a few more feet to go all the way to the end of that side. If I don't get enough water to suit me, I may wrap around to the south side as well. Our garage roof is actually a pyramid of Giza shape, so each side gets 1/4 of the water that hits the garage. If I really get foaming at the mouth crazy over this, I could install real gutters on the 3 sides that matter and get another barrel and do this for real.
Please prepare the rubber room at once. How much can 100 or even 150 or 200 gallons of water cost?
For the 1st time in my life I am paying for water by the gallon. I've had a well, I've had a flat rate for all the water I used, and I've had water included in the rent.
My attempts at saving water are slowing driving me insane. All my basement walls are sound and dry. Its a wonderful basement. We love our basement. I'm there now because its cooler than upstairs.
Our yard is a solid slab of clay. It does not absorb water. At the back of the house, we have an old cistern, now filled with dirt and sealed off. there is an old pipe to bring the water in the house. I'm reliably informed they used the cistern to wash clothes up until the 70s, at least. (The roof water filled the cistern.)
Now when we filled in the broken down, moldy cistern, I filled that water pipe up with caulk. The leak came in around the old cistern pipe.
Since I did that, In 3 years, we had one storm so bad that there were a few drops between the pipe and the wall.
Then I started dorking around with the one downspout for the entire house and every time it rained, about a gallon or so of water came in there.
I decided I really do like having a dry, not moldy basement, and I do not want to dig down 4 feet or so, including the area under our A/C, to remove the pipe and cement up that hole for real. And if I did that, the water would find somewhere else to come in.
The papers that came with my rain barrels assumed that my house would have several downspouts and it does not. So the quantity of water is much higher than the manufacturer planned for.
Yesterday, I moved all the rain barrel gear over to the garage. The garage is already damp inside. We don't care if it gets worse. These garages are of such poor quality the city classifies them as sheds and does not even make you get a building permit to work on them, because they are sheds.
The house is back to normal. The original downspout is reinstalled.
The garage does not have gutters. A few years ago, I found some "L" shaped vinyl trim and made a rain diverter over the people door so I could get in and out without walking though a waterfall.
I found a little bit more and extended this down the east side of the garage and its a tiny gutter for a tiny roof. To get the full effect, I should get a few more feet to go all the way to the end of that side. If I don't get enough water to suit me, I may wrap around to the south side as well. Our garage roof is actually a pyramid of Giza shape, so each side gets 1/4 of the water that hits the garage. If I really get foaming at the mouth crazy over this, I could install real gutters on the 3 sides that matter and get another barrel and do this for real.
Please prepare the rubber room at once. How much can 100 or even 150 or 200 gallons of water cost?
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 02:32 pm
What I Watched Week #20
New TV:
Nurse Jackie 5.06
Bates Motel 1.09
Lost Girl 3.13
Criminal Minds 8.22
Arrow 1.23
The Vampire Diaries 4.23
Elementary 1.23 & 1.24
Re-Watched TV:
Arrow 1.01
Yes I'm already re-watching Arrow, I can't believe how much I love this show!
New TV:
Nurse Jackie 5.06
Bates Motel 1.09
Lost Girl 3.13
Criminal Minds 8.22
Arrow 1.23
The Vampire Diaries 4.23
Elementary 1.23 & 1.24
Re-Watched TV:
Arrow 1.01
Yes I'm already re-watching Arrow, I can't believe how much I love this show!
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 02:28 pm
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Monday, May 20th, 2013 10:41 am
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