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[kaberett]

Anyone interested in doing Kew the Movies with me? I've booked tickets for myself and a friend for the Star Wars showing already, but I'm happy to have others join us and I am 100% up for seeing any of the other showings (Jurassic Park, Mean Girls, and Labyrinth). I am similarly up for potluck picnic dinners.

On the heartbreaking difficulty of getting rid of books:

After all, the romance of minimalism relies on invisible abundance. The elegantly empty apartment speaks not to genteel poverty, but to the kind of hoarded wealth that makes anything and everything replaceable and available at the click of a mouse. Things and the freedom from things, and then things again if you desire. If you miss a book after getting rid of it, Kondo consoles, you can always buy it again. Dispose and replace, repeat and repeat.

What should student doctors learn about sexual healthcare? This survey is being run by the University of Oxford:

We are redesigning courses for medical students to teach them what they need to know about sexual and genital health. If you have experience of going to the doctor for these issues, including asking about contraception, sexually transmitted diseases, screening, or any concerns about your genital or sexual health, we would like to hear from you.

I am spending a lot of time at the moment watching two eaglets grow up.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

THIRTY BOOKS IS AN UNACCEPTABLY TINY PERSONAL LIBRARY hmph. I got so pissed off at Marie Kondo when I got to that part of her book. And yeah, it is precisely as this link says: unless I get 100% of the purchase price of a book when I dispose of the book, I cannot dispose of the book unless I truly won't ever want or need it again because I cannot simply buy it again.

I do have to confess to a bad case of tsundoku, though.

[kaberett]

Yeah, like, I am working on only having with me, in hard copy, the books that I Really Want In Hard Copy (mostly poetry and things to lend), and it's... still more than that.

And YES QUITE re selling/disposing of.

[jjhunter]

Off the bat for the latter, 'sexually transmitted infections' is the more accurate term (especially since not all carriers of STIs will show disease symptoms).

/is not a UK resident, and thus not wholly comfortable responding to the survey herself

[birke]

There's a book I checked out from the Montgomery County Public Library system when I was 13-ish. I liked it a lot. After we moved to Berlin and started using Amazon to buy English-language books, I spent some birthday money on ordering a copy for myself. Ten years later, I was living in Montgomery County again and checked the same library for books by that author. Gone.

Gone?

Yeah, there were no books by that author in the system anymore. Not that book, not another one I'd also liked but not quite understood at 13 and would have liked to reread.

Just, all, gone.

The librarian told me that if books were lost or worn out, they wouldn't replace them if the circulation numbers had been low. That book wasn't popular enough to replace.

I was very glad that I had bought it. This author's books also have a nasty habit of going out of print, so there's no guarantee I'd be able to read it again.

[macey]

how impressed would you be if I manage to align transatlantic shenanigry to coincide w/ the labyrinth showing

I mean it's deeply unlikely but. waaaaant. (how fast do they sell out?)

[kaberett]

I mean I'd be fairly impressed!

Unfortunately I have NO IDEA how quickly things sell out, but I dare say that if I acquire what turns out to be an Extra Ticket I'll be able to find someone local to take it if timings don't work out for you! I'll have to hold off on actually buying the thing until my bank account is in... slightly less dire straits (HOPEFULLY SOON).

[sfred]

Oh, yes, that about things and wealth. I can feel easy-come, easy-go about things that I know come up frequently on Freecycle, but.
I dispose of books that I absolutely know I won't want to read again or lend out, but that's it.

[davidgillon]

Potentially interested in seeing Star Wars, but at the minute my summer plans are dependent on my sister. She's appearing in the Kynren son-et-lumiere and I've left it to her to figure out when we're going as a family to see it/her, which effectively means she's deciding when I spend my next fortnight in Durham.