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Celebrating. A Labour government.

Reading. An Immense World, Ed Yong, which I am adoring to the point that when I got to the end of the first chapter I went back to the beginning of the introduction and went through it again, taking notes this time. I have already enthused about entertaining footnotes and have now also cackled at Plausibly Deniable Dick Jokes as well as taking, as I say, copious notes. It goes back to the library tomorrow and then there will be a wait to get back to the top of the hold queue. I'm going to buy a copy. (I am slightly mourning the fact that there does not yet appear to be a lavishly illustrated coffee table dead tree edition.)

Watching. Dead Boy Detectives, the first episode thereof! I am pretty sure I'd have got much less out of it if I hadn't been going in thoroughly spoiled (by some very enthusiastic close reading), but I was and I did and I am looking forward to More (for all that I have totally failed to get my act together to watch more this weekend).

Two videos on stationery:

SBRE Brown's Fountain Pen Shootout Kyuseido Kakari VS Conid Kingsize. If you do not have a burning desire to hear someone's thoughts on comparing two £1000 fountain pens, do not watch this. Even if you do I... am not convinced this is worthwhile? I think this is the second thing of SBRE Brown's I've psyched myself up to watch and I really do not get His Position In The Fountain Pen Hobby. (lolsob, though, at the Kakari's lack of roll stop... being fixable with a Kaweco add-on clip.)
HOW TO SHARPEN PENCILS (9:28; no captions, audio more important than video). This one I do highly recommend. I watched it because I expressed to A my amazement ~~and outrage~~ that people will apparently spend over five hundred dollars on pencil sharpeners. It SURE WAS AN EXPERIENCE that I have now inflicted on several other people, along with the person's website Artisanal Pencil Sharpening. This is a BRILLIANTLY observed pastiche and I am still having intermittent hysterics over the part where I didn't start getting actually suspicious until the Commentary On Mechanical Pencils ("fuck them") and wasn't convinced until THE LAST, LIKE, FIFTEEN SECONDS. Yes I'd spent most of it going "... this is RIDICULOUS, what the FUCK" but that does not mean I doubted it. Hilarity: the delivery on the "any rap group will do" line was so pitch-perfect and the content was so unexpected that my audio processing just totally cut out and I Just Did Not Parse It or, you know, I might have noticed a bit sooner. Bonus: Adam also totally failed to parse that line on his first watch-through, so was delighted that I had exactly the same issue.

Playing. We have finished the storyline of Ori and the Blind Forest and have something like 4% completionism left to go?

Cooking. Two new recipes: Ottolenghi's one-pot chickpeas with carrots, dates, and marinated feta, and Meera Sodha's ben ben noodles. The chickpeas are going into our general rotation; the noodles are not (and once again had about twice the noodle or half the veg it needed for our preferences) but I get to tick off another recipe from her book!

Eating. We got nearly a kilo of blueberries for remarkably little money on Monday, and I have been inhaling them ever since.

Growing. The persimmon's feet had started escaping out of the bottom of its container, so today I potted it up. I do not actually expect the new pot to be Adequate for its purposes for very long, but it has at least a bit more room!

Also potted up a few other bits and pieces, and continued intermittently tidying the patio.

Did not manage to make it to plot. Very bored of the agoraphobia.

Observing. BAT.

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I adored The Dead Boy Detectives, minus the one episode that was a little too close to my trauma. Jenn and I actually ended up doing what is, for us, a binge. SO MUCH LOVELY QUEERNESS.

Edited Date: 2024-07-08 11:19 am (UTC)