ten good things
Mar. 18th, 2016 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett1. My medical appointment this morning passed off astonishingly quickly and smoothly -- I was obliged to attend the triage clinic for a minor irritation, and my regular GP turned out to be the duty doctor. I now have a follow-up phone appointment with him for next Tuesday (not the three-weeks'-time my own attempts to get to talk to him anyway was going to land me with), and have as instructed e-mailed him the name of the respiratory specialist I want to be packed off to. (His instruction to e-mail is important, because last time I sent anything non-routine -- all e-mail has to go via reception -- I got told off a bit.) On my way out he sort of raised an eyebrow at me and said "I like your badge", and I grinned back and thanked him and was off on my way; the badge in question is an I SUPPORT JUNIOR DOCTORS sticker I was kindly given when I had a hospital appointment during the last 48-hour strike.
2. I pushed through Hyde Park to Green Park Station rather than getting the bus, and in consequence saw (a) concrete and recycled glass plaques commemorating the Great Exhibition, which I'd not previously met because I don't normally go around that part of the Park, (b) a cavalry drill behind Knightsbridge barracks, complete with swords and bugles (and, yes, shouting sergeant-majors). Which is the first time I'd seen the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment at anything above a rather prissy trot, and (c) a wide and riotous array of crocuses and daffodils various.
3. The post brought me a new-to-me e-reader! My previous one was alas dying a very definite if somewhat lingering death; I am Very Excited about having a new technology friend. It can connect to wifi! It is faster! The buttons work! I have ORGANISED IT. (Relatedly, calibre is great.)
4. The kitchen contains lemon macarons and also custard ready for bruleeing; A brought me pears last night, so lunch was the last of some very nice goats' cheese and some sourdough toast and a pear. (Breakfast, to fortify me against Leaving The House At That Kind Of Time, was fried mushrooms with garlic and parsley, also on sourdough toast.)
5. I am very much enjoying having a tiny sun set up. I basks in it, yes I do.
6. I am absolutely delighted at someone having made a pinboard for Mercedes, who is one ofrecessional's OCs in your blue-eyed boys, not least becauuuuuuuuse either the OP also has a non-obvious DW oooooooor someone actually appreciated me dropping the link to the post in which M. finds Someone Who Looks Like Mercedes in comments on ybeb, i.e. I am not the only person who makes a point of rereading all the comments on all the parts of the fic every time I reread the thing on the internets. >>;
7. Fact: the Tallis Spem, Spem in Alium, is a very very famous piece of early choral music in forty parts. Fact: Allium is the genus that contains onions, garlic, leeks, spring onions, etc. (Subsidiary fact: the -lic of garlic is the leek word, and it shows up much much more in allium names in Swedish). ... fact: this means that there is a Certain Type Of Person who mutters spem in allium any time they're cooking with a member of the allium family. So when I'm reblogging pictures of allium flowers on tumblr that is obviously the tag I use, and then this happened and I was delighted forever.
8. Thus spake Carly Rae: a song of Friedrich Nietzsche, in the event that you had not yet met it. (Stare into the abyss and the abyss will call you, maybe.)
9. I have managed to acquire blue corduroy slippers that meet the requirements outlined by podiatry, in plenty of time to take them along to next week's podiatry appointment.
10. I currently have a palindromic number of support points, and for bonus minor smug it is the first four-figure palindrome, and I am actually just completely delighted about it. I get a small jolt of glee every time I think about it. BRAINS: sometimes they can be pretty great.
2. I pushed through Hyde Park to Green Park Station rather than getting the bus, and in consequence saw (a) concrete and recycled glass plaques commemorating the Great Exhibition, which I'd not previously met because I don't normally go around that part of the Park, (b) a cavalry drill behind Knightsbridge barracks, complete with swords and bugles (and, yes, shouting sergeant-majors). Which is the first time I'd seen the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment at anything above a rather prissy trot, and (c) a wide and riotous array of crocuses and daffodils various.
3. The post brought me a new-to-me e-reader! My previous one was alas dying a very definite if somewhat lingering death; I am Very Excited about having a new technology friend. It can connect to wifi! It is faster! The buttons work! I have ORGANISED IT. (Relatedly, calibre is great.)
4. The kitchen contains lemon macarons and also custard ready for bruleeing; A brought me pears last night, so lunch was the last of some very nice goats' cheese and some sourdough toast and a pear. (Breakfast, to fortify me against Leaving The House At That Kind Of Time, was fried mushrooms with garlic and parsley, also on sourdough toast.)
5. I am very much enjoying having a tiny sun set up. I basks in it, yes I do.
6. I am absolutely delighted at someone having made a pinboard for Mercedes, who is one of
recessional's OCs in your blue-eyed boys, not least becauuuuuuuuse either the OP also has a non-obvious DW oooooooor someone actually appreciated me dropping the link to the post in which M. finds Someone Who Looks Like Mercedes in comments on ybeb, i.e. I am not the only person who makes a point of rereading all the comments on all the parts of the fic every time I reread the thing on the internets. >>;7. Fact: the Tallis Spem, Spem in Alium, is a very very famous piece of early choral music in forty parts. Fact: Allium is the genus that contains onions, garlic, leeks, spring onions, etc. (Subsidiary fact: the -lic of garlic is the leek word, and it shows up much much more in allium names in Swedish). ... fact: this means that there is a Certain Type Of Person who mutters spem in allium any time they're cooking with a member of the allium family. So when I'm reblogging pictures of allium flowers on tumblr that is obviously the tag I use, and then this happened and I was delighted forever.
8. Thus spake Carly Rae: a song of Friedrich Nietzsche, in the event that you had not yet met it. (Stare into the abyss and the abyss will call you, maybe.)
9. I have managed to acquire blue corduroy slippers that meet the requirements outlined by podiatry, in plenty of time to take them along to next week's podiatry appointment.
10. I currently have a palindromic number of support points, and for bonus minor smug it is the first four-figure palindrome, and I am actually just completely delighted about it. I get a small jolt of glee every time I think about it. BRAINS: sometimes they can be pretty great.
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Date: 2016-03-18 08:26 pm (UTC)Like: I have paid for replacement forks on my dance chair! (I am a bit miffed that they're charging me £30 for a new pair of front casters but if they give the current ones back as well then I'll just whack them on t'other chair; if they don't I shall grump but there is no need for me to borrow trouble.) I have realised that there is no call whatsoever to pay £115 for having them cut me another two bits of sheet metal because I can do the same job for the cost of a sheet of plastic and some patience with a saw, or I can get my employers' workshop to do it for me at cost, probably! (Cost will not be £115.) I am sort of facepalmily enjoying the novel I've almost finished, in that it is Victorian and thus far Very Pointed on gender equality and class and economics but it also contains two dead mothers and a lot of whiny friendzoned bros! I have more books in the stack to read next! I am looking after myself! Come Home has funded! CN Lester is being a badass activist all over the internet! Smitten Kitchen just posted a recipe for apricot-hazelnut-browned butter hamantaschen, which is a combination of ingredients that is obviously targeted at me! I am coping really well with a bunch of very difficult shit and I'm very proud of myself! Etc etc etc. :-)
Curl up in small ball purr happily yes yes.
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Date: 2016-03-18 08:45 pm (UTC)With my friend Lia I've gathered and eaten a kind of wild leeks, known as ramps. This particular variety may be North American, I'm not sure, but the name ramps comes via a few modifications from Old English "hramsa", which is cognate with Ancient Greek κρόμμυον "onion", and apparently words for Allium members in some other IE subfamilies as well (too lazy to check OED at the moment) - so it apparently comes from the Proto-Indo-European word for some kind of Allium.
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Date: 2016-03-18 08:52 pm (UTC)Them being not at all wedge-shaped, after all.
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Date: 2016-03-18 08:53 pm (UTC)That's some pretty great things.
I love being able to stop something on a good number. I try not to let it bother me to stop on an annoying one.
(Nor have I figured out what the difference is. Oh well.)
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Date: 2016-03-19 02:24 am (UTC)(Just coincidentally that story actually is from my parents' home town, I've almost certainly had relatives taking part in that competition, and, while it technically isn't my home town I did actually spend most weekends there as a child)
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Date: 2016-03-22 12:41 am (UTC)Possibly while preparing the officers' dinner.
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