vital functions
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kaberettReading. The Masked City, Genevieve Cogman. I am a little bit perplexed about the metaphysics and ontology of this world, and also What Even Is A Dragon, and I'm still finding the prose intermittently confusing, but it is distracting and not particularly brain-intensive, which is pretty much what I want out of my media consumption at the moment.
League of Dragons, Naomi Novik, because I apparently last read any of these circa 2013, and I was vaguely aware the series had finished but hadn't Got My Act Together, and then the library app (it's learning!) pointed out to me that I could have pretty much all of them with zero time waiting in the hold queue, and while I'm really not certain I can remember much about what happened in the last two books I am not entirely sure this matters, and certainly I am finding it easy and pleasant reading with DRAGONS that DRAGON and do a LOYALTY and that is about my intellectual level right now.
Watching. The Blue Planet: Coasts. Last episode! There's a bunch more DVD extras (hurrah box sets), but that's the main body of the thing Finished. I think, on balance, I am surprised by how much material was repeated between episodes (both in terms of actual footage and in terms of general Oh Right We're Doing This Animal Again, and a little surprised at the extent to which I felt there wasn't a Coherent Narrative (beyond "look at these aminals, don't they aminal") but it has been excellent comfort viewing and I've been very excited about meeting all these various creatures. I am tired, it's late, beneath the cut find my liveblog of this episode in specific.
Exploring. Knole! As somewhere to stop and have lunch that was more pleasant than a service station on the bank holiday Monday (which, well, the brewhouse had excellent metre-thick stone walls and was lovely and cool), when we were taking a vanload of Stuff from A to B. There were DEER and CARVED TREE STUMPS (badger, hedgehog, deer with replacement wooden-spoon ear) and scrumpy reduced to £5 the litre, and very nice it was too.
Poked around the park oppositesebastienne's new place, also, where there were BIRBS and DOGS and PLANTS.
Additionally spent the night in Adam's old college, as a convenient place to crash in Oxford last night, where I got shown The Lake and was generally Excited About Plants, and very pleasant it was too.
Growing. There might??? Be a fig???
Observing. Deer with antlers! Teenage coots! Many mallards and cygnets! Some coal tits nesting in Adam's college's guttering!
Poking. At some point before the end of the water festival last week I got my 300th extra-large Magikarp, and thereby achieved the Gold Badge! I'm actually at 307 now; didn't get notified of the achievement but am very pleased to have Finally Got There. Also particularly excited to have got my first Smeargle (which was always going to take a while and was, again, helped by the water festival Take Some Snapshots research tasks -- I really hate the noise my phone makes when I do the snapshot Thing, and actually putting it on Proper Silent is at least two batches of executive function, so I've been quite nope about the entire concept.)
League of Dragons, Naomi Novik, because I apparently last read any of these circa 2013, and I was vaguely aware the series had finished but hadn't Got My Act Together, and then the library app (it's learning!) pointed out to me that I could have pretty much all of them with zero time waiting in the hold queue, and while I'm really not certain I can remember much about what happened in the last two books I am not entirely sure this matters, and certainly I am finding it easy and pleasant reading with DRAGONS that DRAGON and do a LOYALTY and that is about my intellectual level right now.
Watching. The Blue Planet: Coasts. Last episode! There's a bunch more DVD extras (hurrah box sets), but that's the main body of the thing Finished. I think, on balance, I am surprised by how much material was repeated between episodes (both in terms of actual footage and in terms of general Oh Right We're Doing This Animal Again, and a little surprised at the extent to which I felt there wasn't a Coherent Narrative (beyond "look at these aminals, don't they aminal") but it has been excellent comfort viewing and I've been very excited about meeting all these various creatures. I am tired, it's late, beneath the cut find my liveblog of this episode in specific.
SPECIAL FLAT CRABS also only sea-going lizard (in the Galapagos, which I'm mostly familiar with because of my rocks).
what is a CApelin
Why
I Have Concerns
Is It A Sex Thing
IT IS AND MOST OF THEM DIE WHAT THE FUCK
otehr populations lay in the ocean so WHY DO THE NEWFOUNDLAND LOT DO THIS WTF. (safer from predators, develop faster bc warmer?)
limiting factor on seabird colonies is availability and concetration of food
tufted puffins!!! horned puffins!!! all bread at Talan, 14 species, RIDICULOUS EYES, such yell, kittiwake have very red mouth, crested auklets!!!
Prions lay SELF-HEATING EGGS
... elephant seals are SO BLOB and... it a sex thing. ... OH NO SMOLS your noses are less rubbish also that was a Very Alarming Nose-Related Sex Thing
Exploring. Knole! As somewhere to stop and have lunch that was more pleasant than a service station on the bank holiday Monday (which, well, the brewhouse had excellent metre-thick stone walls and was lovely and cool), when we were taking a vanload of Stuff from A to B. There were DEER and CARVED TREE STUMPS (badger, hedgehog, deer with replacement wooden-spoon ear) and scrumpy reduced to £5 the litre, and very nice it was too.
Poked around the park opposite
sebastienne's new place, also, where there were BIRBS and DOGS and PLANTS.Additionally spent the night in Adam's old college, as a convenient place to crash in Oxford last night, where I got shown The Lake and was generally Excited About Plants, and very pleasant it was too.
Growing. There might??? Be a fig???
Observing. Deer with antlers! Teenage coots! Many mallards and cygnets! Some coal tits nesting in Adam's college's guttering!
Poking. At some point before the end of the water festival last week I got my 300th extra-large Magikarp, and thereby achieved the Gold Badge! I'm actually at 307 now; didn't get notified of the achievement but am very pleased to have Finally Got There. Also particularly excited to have got my first Smeargle (which was always going to take a while and was, again, helped by the water festival Take Some Snapshots research tasks -- I really hate the noise my phone makes when I do the snapshot Thing, and actually putting it on Proper Silent is at least two batches of executive function, so I've been quite nope about the entire concept.)
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Date: 2019-09-01 10:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-09-02 02:59 am (UTC)They what? *is too baffled to even be horrified*
*quick Wikipedia visit* Ah. These are not the prions I thought you meant.
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Date: 2019-09-02 06:01 pm (UTC)