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vital functions
May. 10th, 2020 11:39 pmReading. Still plodding along with The Story of my Life. I'm sort of ruefully amused at myself; I'm feeling embarrassed and defensive about "yep still working on the book I've been picking away at for over a month now", and also recognising that This Happens And Is Okay, and also observing what an excellent demonstration it is of why I'm doing vital functions posts rather than What Are You Reading? Wednesday. So that's a thing.
I'm charmed by the letters themselves -- now being well into correspondence -- but continue extremely raised-hackles about the framing language used by the compiler, which is part of why I'm taking so long over it, I think.
I've also been slowly making progress with Sound and Fury: when opposition to facilitated communication functions as hate speech (Stubblefield, 2011). I was mostly here for the literature review; I'm not sure I'm going to keep going into the exploration of the "functions as hate speech" chunk.
Watching. Planet Earth: shallow seas. ( Read more... )
Listening. Slowly slowly TMA: this week's episode, and we're coming up on episode 30 on the relisten. (I remain irritated at my apparent ongoing mental block about needing to write a Proper Post. Goal for this week: just make some words even if they're incoherent bullet points. That goes for the PhD as well, actually.)
Cooking. Two batches of sea-spicy aubergine, the second less successful than the first.
Ruby Violet's pear sorbet recipe. It is so good.
Sourdough with 10% rye and a good addition of caraway: did exactly what I wanted it to, to my delight. This Will Be Happening Again. (I've also been admiring My Mother's First Sourdough, and various other bread made by various other people!)
Making & mending. ... I've logged into my Dreamhack for the first time in, literally, a year (apparently my previous login was 11th May 2019!). I haven't done anything yet beyond getting it vaguely up-to-date and trying to troubleshoot issues actually getting things started, but hey. Dreamhack.
Growing. So many plants. So many.
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I've very definitely started hitting my limits in terms of how often I can leave the house, which is tedious. Gonna hafta rejig this to pace myself better, and also actually click buy on the irrigation system.
Observing. The fox and parakeets, at the allotment! The yellow rose, in the hedge at home. THE BAT.
Playing. Okay okay okay. Most exciting PoGo news: 96% Mewtwo from the Kanto research, by far and away my best; two half-decent shiny Snubbull during the event along with two 98% IV Snubbull and one 100% (having already wild-caught one previously); a Scraggy from actually playing in the Battle League; yet another shiny Magikarp, ditto a high-level high-IV Machop; and a SHINY SHADOW MAWILE with 82% IVs pre-purification! I am also very much enjoying the increased interaction range for Pokéstops.
Horn: staccato is haaaaaaaard. Progress is, nevertheless, being made.
I'm charmed by the letters themselves -- now being well into correspondence -- but continue extremely raised-hackles about the framing language used by the compiler, which is part of why I'm taking so long over it, I think.
I've also been slowly making progress with Sound and Fury: when opposition to facilitated communication functions as hate speech (Stubblefield, 2011). I was mostly here for the literature review; I'm not sure I'm going to keep going into the exploration of the "functions as hate speech" chunk.
Watching. Planet Earth: shallow seas. ( Read more... )
Listening. Slowly slowly TMA: this week's episode, and we're coming up on episode 30 on the relisten. (I remain irritated at my apparent ongoing mental block about needing to write a Proper Post. Goal for this week: just make some words even if they're incoherent bullet points. That goes for the PhD as well, actually.)
Cooking. Two batches of sea-spicy aubergine, the second less successful than the first.
Ruby Violet's pear sorbet recipe. It is so good.
Sourdough with 10% rye and a good addition of caraway: did exactly what I wanted it to, to my delight. This Will Be Happening Again. (I've also been admiring My Mother's First Sourdough, and various other bread made by various other people!)
Making & mending. ... I've logged into my Dreamhack for the first time in, literally, a year (apparently my previous login was 11th May 2019!). I haven't done anything yet beyond getting it vaguely up-to-date and trying to troubleshoot issues actually getting things started, but hey. Dreamhack.
Growing. So many plants. So many.
( Read more... )
I've very definitely started hitting my limits in terms of how often I can leave the house, which is tedious. Gonna hafta rejig this to pace myself better, and also actually click buy on the irrigation system.
Observing. The fox and parakeets, at the allotment! The yellow rose, in the hedge at home. THE BAT.
Playing. Okay okay okay. Most exciting PoGo news: 96% Mewtwo from the Kanto research, by far and away my best; two half-decent shiny Snubbull during the event along with two 98% IV Snubbull and one 100% (having already wild-caught one previously); a Scraggy from actually playing in the Battle League; yet another shiny Magikarp, ditto a high-level high-IV Machop; and a SHINY SHADOW MAWILE with 82% IVs pre-purification! I am also very much enjoying the increased interaction range for Pokéstops.
Horn: staccato is haaaaaaaard. Progress is, nevertheless, being made.