vital functions
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kaberettReading. Got out of the library this week, because they were right there when I was waiting for a loo to come free: Head On, which I had not yet got around to, and record of a spaceborn few, because alexwlchan particularly recommended it. (I was indifferent to the first book and found the second book very soothing and iddy.)
The Push: on the one hand I'm a bit "... HOW DO YOU HANG AROUND YOSEMITE AND NOT HAVE EVEN PASSING FAMILIARITY WITH THE CONCEPT OF POLYAMORY", and on the other hand oh good grief she clearly didn't want to hurt him & thought she was offering what he wanted but fundamentally the way she wanted to stay married to him was not the way he'd ever wanted to be married to her. -- TOMMY WANTED TO FREE SOLO EL CAP. OH DEAR. OH DEAAAAR. IT'S OKAY YOU GOT BETTER. And, some way further through: gosh I am astonished by how thoroughly I am holding my breath and having my palms sweat with the tension of this even! though I already know the story!
From the library, via the magic of ebooks: Normal People, Sally Rooney, enthusiastically recced to me by Waterstones staff the other week. I was wary and it's full of triggers but oh dear no actually I love this a lot and have promptly placed a hold on her first book. (It's vivid and intense and evocative and I spent the entire thing feeling kind of breathless, and -- oh dear, children, oh dear.) The thing is, though, that I know why I love it! I just can't quite wrap my head around why everyone else does. (It is A LitFic Phenomenon, if you have thus far failed to come across it.)
Bonus slow progress through my current Shaun Tan, Tales from the Inner City, which is slow mostly because they're incredibly dense and I want to savour them and also their art.
Film/TV. Leverage continues... Leverage. We are just sitting down to watch The Grand Budapest Hotel along with dinner and cocktails, because Date Night; I have never seen it before, but A is fond. (We were going to watch Amélie, and indeed I have got crème brûlée in the fridge to eat with, but we were mysteriously unable to find a copy despite being pretty sure the house ought to contain at least one, so A Different Film It Is and... we will just have to eat more crème brûlée in future.) -- right okay yes I enjoyed that.
Growth. Mysteriously, only one row of cherry tomatoes has hatched. Probably they need to be Planted up but I'm still quite ??? at them. (Okay no wait between writing this on about Thursday and... Saturday evening...? some more started hatching, HURRAH.) Meanwhile, my LEMON TREE has arrived.
Further points: A, who has The Patience Of Several Saints, spent this afternoon on glazing the greenhouse with me. The greenhouse is now done. I am Very Excited??? I need to work out why my bin got a bit sort of sad (mostly because I didn't feed it for a bit over a week, I suspect) and make it happy again, and actually pull up all the dandelions, but the next major project is in fact now finalising my raised beds aaaaaaaaaah.
And! One more chilli! Which may or may not survive, who knows, but chilli-the-largest has A Third Leaf and so does passion fruit-the-largest, so, fingers crossed.
Notable Pokémon. Last week: shiny Articuno traded from A (because he! had a spare!!! this is most unfair!), plus a wild-caught shiny Pineco. HATCHED A PERFECT TURTWIG. Also wild-caught a perfect Weedle, which is actually my second, but I sent the first one to the professor Back In The Day before we had TMs because its moveset wasn't ~perfect~ and I needed the storage space. This week: shiny Lotad shiny Lotad shiny Lotad. Wednesday morning -- right after the bug-type event ended -- SHINY CATERPIE as first Pokémon of the day.
Additionaly and furthermore, hatched BABY SNORLAX and BABY SUDOWOODO (Munchlax; Bonsly) and am Very Excited about their little faces.
... and a shiny Taillow because this is Frankly Ridiculous, and then on Community Day I... got two shinies (neither of them any good) and more importantly traded a bunch of the Bagon I'd caught with A and ended up with a 100% lucky Bagon, aaaaah.
Language. Still attempting to blitz the end of FutureLearn Irish 101; still annoyed by the lack of explanation of pronunciation and especially by the insistence that we watch a video of two speakers in a language we don't yet know repeatedly while... perky upbeat music has been edited into the background. That is a Hard No from me, friends.
alexwlchan particularly recommended it. (I was indifferent to the first book and found the second book very soothing and iddy.)The Push: on the one hand I'm a bit "... HOW DO YOU HANG AROUND YOSEMITE AND NOT HAVE EVEN PASSING FAMILIARITY WITH THE CONCEPT OF POLYAMORY", and on the other hand oh good grief she clearly didn't want to hurt him & thought she was offering what he wanted but fundamentally the way she wanted to stay married to him was not the way he'd ever wanted to be married to her. -- TOMMY WANTED TO FREE SOLO EL CAP. OH DEAR. OH DEAAAAR. IT'S OKAY YOU GOT BETTER. And, some way further through: gosh I am astonished by how thoroughly I am holding my breath and having my palms sweat with the tension of this even! though I already know the story!
From the library, via the magic of ebooks: Normal People, Sally Rooney, enthusiastically recced to me by Waterstones staff the other week. I was wary and it's full of triggers but oh dear no actually I love this a lot and have promptly placed a hold on her first book. (It's vivid and intense and evocative and I spent the entire thing feeling kind of breathless, and -- oh dear, children, oh dear.) The thing is, though, that I know why I love it! I just can't quite wrap my head around why everyone else does. (It is A LitFic Phenomenon, if you have thus far failed to come across it.)
Bonus slow progress through my current Shaun Tan, Tales from the Inner City, which is slow mostly because they're incredibly dense and I want to savour them and also their art.
Film/TV. Leverage continues... Leverage. We are just sitting down to watch The Grand Budapest Hotel along with dinner and cocktails, because Date Night; I have never seen it before, but A is fond. (We were going to watch Amélie, and indeed I have got crème brûlée in the fridge to eat with, but we were mysteriously unable to find a copy despite being pretty sure the house ought to contain at least one, so A Different Film It Is and... we will just have to eat more crème brûlée in future.) -- right okay yes I enjoyed that.
Growth. Mysteriously, only one row of cherry tomatoes has hatched. Probably they need to be Planted up but I'm still quite ??? at them. (Okay no wait between writing this on about Thursday and... Saturday evening...? some more started hatching, HURRAH.) Meanwhile, my LEMON TREE has arrived.
Further points: A, who has The Patience Of Several Saints, spent this afternoon on glazing the greenhouse with me. The greenhouse is now done. I am Very Excited??? I need to work out why my bin got a bit sort of sad (mostly because I didn't feed it for a bit over a week, I suspect) and make it happy again, and actually pull up all the dandelions, but the next major project is in fact now finalising my raised beds aaaaaaaaaah.
And! One more chilli! Which may or may not survive, who knows, but chilli-the-largest has A Third Leaf and so does passion fruit-the-largest, so, fingers crossed.
Notable Pokémon. Last week: shiny Articuno traded from A (because he! had a spare!!! this is most unfair!), plus a wild-caught shiny Pineco. HATCHED A PERFECT TURTWIG. Also wild-caught a perfect Weedle, which is actually my second, but I sent the first one to the professor Back In The Day before we had TMs because its moveset wasn't ~perfect~ and I needed the storage space. This week: shiny Lotad shiny Lotad shiny Lotad. Wednesday morning -- right after the bug-type event ended -- SHINY CATERPIE as first Pokémon of the day.
Additionaly and furthermore, hatched BABY SNORLAX and BABY SUDOWOODO (Munchlax; Bonsly) and am Very Excited about their little faces.
... and a shiny Taillow because this is Frankly Ridiculous, and then on Community Day I... got two shinies (neither of them any good) and more importantly traded a bunch of the Bagon I'd caught with A and ended up with a 100% lucky Bagon, aaaaah.
Language. Still attempting to blitz the end of FutureLearn Irish 101; still annoyed by the lack of explanation of pronunciation and especially by the insistence that we watch a video of two speakers in a language we don't yet know repeatedly while... perky upbeat music has been edited into the background. That is a Hard No from me, friends.
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Date: 2019-04-15 06:57 am (UTC)I assume this is a largely rhetorical question, given that the answer is almost certainly "because not noticing anything other than climbing". *g*
and on the other hand oh good grief she clearly didn't want to hurt him & thought she was offering what he wanted but fundamentally the way she wanted to stay married to him was not the way he'd ever wanted to be married to her.
Indeed. And it would have been a classic "relationship not working, add more people" too.
I'm sure I must have recced her piece at you already; it's heartwrenching and very good: https://www.outsideonline.com/2169946/we-tell-it-it
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Date: 2019-04-18 09:34 pm (UTC)and: yes, yes you had, and POOR HER.
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Date: 2019-04-19 09:03 am (UTC)And you can also see why it must have hurt like hell for him to have to hear "Actually I was never really into you anyway, I just didn't know how to leave you."
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Date: 2019-04-15 04:16 pm (UTC)Greenhouse!! Plants!!
Hurray for happy-making Pokemon!
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Date: 2019-04-18 09:38 pm (UTC)Normal People: our protagonist is a girl-then-young-woman raised in an abusive and violent household, with poor social integration and maaaaajor Emotional Impermanence Issues. It... can be hard going? But also it's very obvious why I love it, I'm just really baffled about it being A Mainstream Darling.