some good things make a post

[kaberett]

1. We have had some spectacular sunsets several days running -- all sharply delineated beautifully illuminated brightly coloured fringes and trails of cloud.
   
2. I am grinning pretty much every time I look at the hardcopy of the thesis. Giving myself a Nice Tangible Object was definitely a good call.
   
3. I first became aware of flowering teas long after I stopped drinking caffeine. I realised, earlier today, that this is a thing I can have -- like, if I'm going to be having regular migraines I am absolutely going to gleefully grab hold of every single possible positive associated experience.
   
4. On which topic I have also spent a very pleasant chunk of the day looking at tea bowls, and am going to let the research sit and percolate while I decide which I actually want. (The question is essentially "what kind of blue glaze?" -- naturally.)
   
5. Treasure of the day: Papa's army uniform cap, GviR ROYAL ENGINEERS metal crest and all, buried in the last two suitcases of camera gear which I have finally got around to cataloguing today (give or take the two camera cases I have not yet managed to get into, but I'm pretty sure one of them's empty and I've definitely dealt with The Majority Of The Stuff at this point.

Comments

[vass]

<3 Thank you for sharing the good things.

[silveradept]

Huzzah for all of those good things. Flowering tea is all sorts of visual fun.

[lunabee34]

So happy for your tea delight. :)

On tangible objects

[emperor]

It probably says something about me that I have hard-copies of both the thesis that almost-failed and the version that got through viva take two with minor corrections, but I don't have a hard copy of the final version...

Re: On tangible objects

[kaberett]

I have no intention of getting a hard copy of the final version! But - perhaps relatedly... - I emphatically Did Not incorporate all of the changes requested by the editor to the-published-paper-that-is-chapter-3 in the thesis...

[oracne]

Print copies are SO SATISFYING.

[sfred]

Hurray, in particular for 2.