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Mar. 22nd, 2020 09:39 pmReading. The Will To Change, bell hooks: finished! I continued to find it a mix of "clear, uncompromising, nuanced articulation of the ways in which toxicpatriarchal masculinity operates and harms people, and the ways in which women* are complicit in that" and "baffling insistence that there exists as a useful concept a feminist masculinity, which mostly seems to translate to well-adjusted, psychologically healthy adult human". I was particularly taken with "the substitution of manhood for selfhood". I probably want to reread and take notes.
Slowly working my way through 5 Times the Raptors Tried to Kill Miriam, and 1 Time They Didn't. So far, it is very soothing.
Watching. The Spy Who Dumped Me, as a soothing rewatch.
Listening. So much TMA. Now up to episode 109 and plodding steadily along. Bought B-Sides the Point on Friday but have not yet scraped together the audio spoons to listen to it.
Growing. ( Read more... )
Observing. Things I had not previously spotted actually successfully eating from the bird feeders: a wood pigeon! a magpie! Also the coaltits are back, and I have been enjoying the robin down the plot.
Playing. PoGo: notable catches include a 100% Sawk, a 100% Snubull, and a shiny Pikachu.
Horn: in addition to ongoing Making A Noise With My Face, I have been (re)reading the sections of The Big Book on maintenance and tuning, and in consequence spent some of today scrubbing the poor thing's innards. Adam, whose instruments have I think all been wood-based, watched me amble up to the kitchen sink with no small amount of horror and indeed revulsion (which is fairly similar to the expression string-players get when I cheerfully do routine maintenance involving a hammer, and to be honest I can't fault them for it). Is it sounding better? Maybe! Is the embouchure rejig an improvement? Definitely! -- tone at the top of my range has improved markedly. Still working on getting back to "clean" and also "smooth" but those are steadily improving too. Next up: a concerted effort at staccato.
Slowly working my way through 5 Times the Raptors Tried to Kill Miriam, and 1 Time They Didn't. So far, it is very soothing.
Watching. The Spy Who Dumped Me, as a soothing rewatch.
Listening. So much TMA. Now up to episode 109 and plodding steadily along. Bought B-Sides the Point on Friday but have not yet scraped together the audio spoons to listen to it.
Growing. ( Read more... )
Observing. Things I had not previously spotted actually successfully eating from the bird feeders: a wood pigeon! a magpie! Also the coaltits are back, and I have been enjoying the robin down the plot.
Playing. PoGo: notable catches include a 100% Sawk, a 100% Snubull, and a shiny Pikachu.
Horn: in addition to ongoing Making A Noise With My Face, I have been (re)reading the sections of The Big Book on maintenance and tuning, and in consequence spent some of today scrubbing the poor thing's innards. Adam, whose instruments have I think all been wood-based, watched me amble up to the kitchen sink with no small amount of horror and indeed revulsion (which is fairly similar to the expression string-players get when I cheerfully do routine maintenance involving a hammer, and to be honest I can't fault them for it). Is it sounding better? Maybe! Is the embouchure rejig an improvement? Definitely! -- tone at the top of my range has improved markedly. Still working on getting back to "clean" and also "smooth" but those are steadily improving too. Next up: a concerted effort at staccato.