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Thursday, July 17th, 2025 08:34 pm
The tooth hole doesn't hurt nearly as much as I expected. I think that's down to gabapentin being one heck of a nerve pain drug. It does hurt of course but manageable with tylenol. I don't like not being able to see the wound and won't be able to tell how it's healing. Here's hoping it heals well. Definitely doing my salt washes.

Found out I can't really go out to the Squonkapoloosa fest, or at least I can't go the night before because I'm house sitting. Boo. But I also found a paranormal circus ...about the same distance away. I could do it if I drive up early that day but who knows where I could park at Squonk. I'm better off at the circus which has tickets and guarantees

in today's work annoyance (and I'm not even there) the online academic calendar has the wrong day for labor day and the wrong start date (I suspect it's last years) but I got the real one today. Boy we're starting late, late enough that I can consider going to my 40th h.s. reunion...there are about 2-3 people I wouldn't mind seeing. The rest can still go to hell.

It's community rec time

[community profile] beautifulmechanical Do you love music? We do, too. (I just joined)

[community profile] birdfeeding Birds, birdfeeding, and birdwatching.

[community profile] common_nature Share the wonders of nature that are all around us!
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Thursday, July 17th, 2025 08:17 pm
Read through correspondence list. So just to let you know? I read, I just don't tend to comment - because, I can't think of anything to say outside of - oh, that's interesting, thanks for sharing.

What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to list or talk about.

my list )

***

I've thought about it? If I were in charge? I'd arrange for teachers to be paid for the entire year including the summer, with the caveat that they either do summer school for one month or a course or tutoring. They get at least one month off paid vacation. Paid for Spring Break and Christmas.
And have some latitude on materials. And smaller class room sizes.

Allow for creativity. And provide a housing stipend, also pay for transportation. Of course I want this for everyone.

Why can't I have a world where folks have equal access to health care, housing, food, entertainment, work, and love? I'm tired of the Selfish Entitled Assholes Ruling the world - can the Universe kill them off already? [Rhetorical questions - mileage may vary on this - and if it does, I'd rather not know?]

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July Question a Day Meme

14. Do you enjoy mocktails/cocktails? What’s your favourite?

Not really. Sugar is involved. I avoid sugar. Alcohol will burn off the sugar - but you know, alcohol - which causes other health related issues and drug interactions. So, I don't drink cocktails or mocktails at all any longer.

15. When was the last time you saw any bees?

About two days ago - on the flowers? I've not been walking around the flowers recently as much - because it's been really hot. Today it was 92F/32C.

16. Do you know any sign language? Have you heard of Makaton?

Not really. No.

17. If you enjoy tea, how do you make it – with a teabag, with loose-leaf tea, in a mug or in a teapot?

Usually a teabag, loose leaf requires more work. In a mug, since again teapot is work and mess, and I like easy. Also as far as I can tell there's not a lot of difference. I do have a tea infuser. I take black tea and matcha with milk (usually unsweetened oat or almond/coconut milk). Herbal without.

Right now, I'm into Matcha Lattes, which isn't a tea so much as a powder.
Stronger than green tea, with more curative power.

18. Are you good at arranging cut flowers? Have you ever tried Ikebana?

No, I suck at it. I don't know what Ikebana is? I looked it up HERE - and no. I've not tried it.

I know people who are amazing at it - a co-worker is a floral arranger and florist - she raises her own flowers, and buys cut flowers and creates amazing arrangements, with dyes and everything.

But, I get cut flowers, and I screw it up - I can't figure out the slant, have no patience, and I don't handle plants well? Also I'm allergic to flowers slightly? So I don't tend to get cut flowers that often? And mold really - allergic? And no room for them?

I can photograph and draw and paint them, though?

See?


Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 10:06 pm
Ideally I would have been able to wait a week for the blood thinners to leave my system but with an active infection in the tooth, no one wanted to do that. So 11 hours later I'm still bleeding. The old tea bag trip has helped slow it but it's still going. Fun times.

The extraction went well. He was thrilled I wasn't afraid (but someone prior had ripped the arm rest in half.) The tooth came out with slight problems because it was rotted mush, like an old tree. Now the really painful thing isn't the tooth socket, it's the injections into the mouth, holy fuck. If you told me a mule had kicked this tooth out of my head I'd believe you.

To make up for yesterday's bummer of a fannish 50 have this The 12 Best Anime of 2025 (So Far) Not my list. I've seen none of these. One day...




What I Just Finished Reading:

Nothing! Fanfic and not even most of that.



What I am Currently Reading:

Pantomine - an LGBT (intersexed main character) fantasy, I like it but somehow I set it aside for a week. I wish more was happening.

Cinders of Yesterday - Buffy/Supernatural vibes, urban fantasy, lesbian partners (by a queer author) so far I like it a lot.

Zero at the Bone - an old true crime I found at the library sale and got because of the Z in the title (for my alphabet challenge)



What I Plan to Read Next: War Child - a Deep Space Nine Novel
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 07:46 pm
1. Dueling Superman Reviews - which unintentionally depict how to write a film review and how not to write a film review.

Professional film/music/book critic and science fiction novelist John Scalzi and his daughter, an inspiring blogger (who to date has primarily written blog posts in her father's blog) post dual reviews of the new film - Superman (directed by James Gunn).

Go HERE (Warning, Athena Scalzi's review is filled with spoilers, although I got confused halfway through, jumped to the end and gave up on her review, her father, John Scalzi's review has relatively few - actually no spoilers outside of what you might see in the trailers.)

The dueling reviews - which are quite different takes on the film - unintentionally show the dos and don'ts of writing reviews, and glaringly show the difference between a professional film critic's review and a amateur film reviewer who saw a flick.

Snippets for examples of the difference:

Beginning of AS's review: Read more... )

Beginning of JS's review: Read more... )

And..

Ending of AS's review: Read more... )

Ending of JS's review: Read more... )

The trick in reviewing anything - is to give the reader just enough information for them to determine privately if they want to see, read, or listen to the item being reviewed themselves. Is it worth their time? Their taste more likely than not will differ greatly from the reviewer's - so the trick is to give them enough information, without spoiling them, to know whether to check it out for themselves. And at the same time - entertaining them, giving them interesting information, and not boring or confusing them in the process. This is not easy to do. Most amateur reviewers haven't a clue how to do it, as you can see from AS's review.

I figured out from John Scalzi's whether it made sense to see the film in a big theater, and whether I'd like it. And that was without being insanely spoiled on it. Besides giving me a headache, Athena's review confused me and spoiled me about various bits, I'd prefer not to be spoiled on. Also, AS's review only works for those who have already seen the film and not as a review - whose audience is those who haven't seen the film yet. You can't make sense of AS's review without having seen the film. I also couldn't tell if I'd like the film or not. But I knew without a doubt whether I would reading her father's review. (I won't and will wait for it to come on television. It's like Gunn's other films - too busy. And movie theaters aren't comfortable any longer? And have too many distractions? I'd rather watch at home.)

cut for length )

2. Books

I think I've landed on The Rook -

Per Good Reads: Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead. Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy. Suspenseful and hilarious, The Rook is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime.

"Utterly convincing and engrossing -- -totally thought-through and frequently hilarious....Even this aging, jaded, attention-deficit-disordered critic was blown away."-Lev Grossman, Time

About the author: Dan O'Malley graduated from Michigan State University and earned a Master's Degree in medieval history from Ohio State University. He then returned to his childhood home, Australia. He now works for the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, writing press releases for government investigations of plane crashes and runaway boats.

This may work for me - it fits my sense of humor, and I'm also a jaded, attention-deficit-disordered critic at the moment.

Plus it's on Kindle so not hard to lug around.

Finished Remarkably Bright Creatures - my difficulty with it was all the characters were frustratingly dense. The writer contrived ways to keep them apart which irritated me. I deal with dense people daily, I can't handle reading about them? Also the writing style didn't work for me, for some reason?

Re-listening to all of the Kate Daniels Graphic Audio Dramatizations - there's ten in all. Plus several single audio books, which aren't. Maybe by the time I finish there will be more? The Kate Daniels series scratches whatever itch I need scratched at the moment. Also they are kind of comfort reads.

And still making my way through the thick paperback of Fair Folk.
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 07:38 pm
XANDER: Whoa, Giles has a TV. (moves stuff away from the TV.)
XANDER: Everybody, Giles has a TV! He's shallow like us. (gestures and moves stuff further away.)
OZ: I got to admit, I'm a little disappointed.
GILES: I, ah, uh, uh -
WILLOW: (walking in.) Well maybe it doesn't work. I-It's like art.
Xander turns the TV on and sits down to watch. Willow is open mouthed with shock.
GILES: (stammering at first) Public television.

~~Harsh Light of Day~~




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Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 08:11 pm
Buffy: This thing isn’t digging up the bones of a child for fun.
Xander: Well, a demon’s got some pretty hilarious ideas about fun.
Willow: Bones of a child though. I saw that! An ancient ritual – uses the blood of a man, the bones of a child and – something called the word of Valios? I-It’s all part of the sacrifice – the sacrifice of three.
Buffy: Let me guess – ends the world.
Willow: Well, yeah, - I-it’s not big with the details, though. It doesn’t say how the world ends or what the ritual entails exactly.
Xander: The sacrifice of three... – Three people are going to die?
Buffy: No, they won’t. Because claw boy is not getting all of his ingredients. We have to find that third one, the Word of Valios, keep him from getting it.
Willow: If he doesn’t already have it. I mean, who knows where he’s been?

~~Buffy Episode #67: "Doomed"~~




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Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 09:36 pm
My wisdom tooth (upper left) shattered. I have all 4 of mine (the bottom two are too entwined with nerves to pull them and I have a big mouth where the wisdom teeth fit comfortably) Had to run to Aspen Dental (one of those big chain revolving door places) because there are shards of tooth wiggling around in there like I'm 8.

Long story short (after way too many x-rays) not only is this tooth shattered, it might also be abscessed and all of this might have been the trigger for the trigeminal neuralgia for the least 8 months. And two crowns are bad (one I knew was, I had been planning to have it fixed this fall) and both eye teeth have cavities. Well fun. I can hear Aspen going ca-ching as they add this up. I tell them no, JUST the broken tooth please and yeah gimme my x-rays. I'm only going to be here two more weeks (lie but they don't need to know) I'll have my dentist look it over.

They'll pull the tooth tomorrow (and now it's starting to hurt) And through out all of this, my Dexcom is screaming. So I had to stop the dental exam twice to get sugar pills because yesterday I was too high to read. today I'm at a critical low, so low the DexCom can only say URGENT critical low. FFS!

The stupid thing is I've been chewing on the right for a long time now thanks to the nerve pain, no issues. Today because the tooth is broken every bite I take I nail my left cheek. WHY?

I go from here to CVS to get meds. They've lost my insulins. Took 15 minutes to find them. FFS (again)


Speaking of FFS, I'm pausing the women of fandom today to talk about a few things that fans can just stop doing.

1. I MISS the Prodigal Son fandom, I don't know what it was, maybe we were all older or something but there was a lot less drama in that fandom (notice I didn't say none)

2. I've said this so many times before harassing creators is wrong. Harassing them to go faster serves no one. Harassing them because they're upset over their show being leaked makes you an ass

3. stop giving a market to the people who steal shows (Hazbin has been leaked for S2 AND S3)

4. back to harassing, it's one thing to critique a show among your friends or even doing meta and posting it and there is another to keep putting it in the creator's face telling them how badly they're doing.

5. faking creators/actors saying awful things to prove whatever random point you have is probably illegal (This time it was Amir Talai again because someone is mad Alastor is being voiced by a cis het middle eastern man and not an ace biracial one and someone faked a bunch of stuff with Amir being homophobic and then is punching out at other fans exposing this campaign of theirs)

6. Burn out is real, if a fan creator needs a break, let them have it (and it's sad that YT and other social media algorithms really force creators to the breaking point)


7. Tags are a thing. USE. THEM! I say this as an old fan creator. I started with paper zines, to yahoo groups and web rings to small websites to FFN to AO3 and beyond. Until AO3 you really didn't/couldn't do content warnings. I admit it, I was slow to learn to tag correctly (but to be fair it's not too often I do things that might be triggering and the major AO3 tags already warn for that). During Prodigal Son, younger fans laughed at me (good naturedly) because I tagged like an old woman.

I still kinda do but I've gotten much better but ffs, if you are writing your trans/intersex/genderflipped head canon, TAG IT. Tag your freaking incest fic. Etc Etc. Look I don't care what you write. Not here to police that. I am here imploring you to give the reader a heads up now that we have systems that make it easy to do that.

When I was back home I got to print a few things at work since there is no secretary right now (shhhhh) one story was LONG by a creator I do like. It was smutty (eh, actually not even my favorite thing to read) but it was also intersexed Angel Dust (I think. I couldn't quite tell, either that or trans man Angel) I do not personally want to read non-canon genders, don't care if you write them but I fell for a character the way they are in canon and that's my preference. I thought maybe it's on you. You didn't read the tags well. Reread it, nope no tags mentioning changing Angel's gender (and there is TONS of about his clit and folds in this over and over, I didn't think also this was going to be 80 pages of nothing but sex but what can you do.

We have the ability to warn readers we're making major changes to characters. Do it (I think some people don't want to because they think people will ignore their story. Yeah, maybe but man do you really want someone who is going to be way more upset than me reading something they get triggered by or don't want to read?)
Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 07:49 pm
Disclaimer: As always, good news is often in the eye of the beholder and mileage may vary on the below. Hopefully you'll find something to make you smile.

1. Only about a quarter of medical schools include training on how to discuss safe gun storage and firearm injury prevention with patients. Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic is working to change that — and ensure that future doctors play a role in preventing gun violence.

https://www.thetrace.org/2025/07/medical-school-gun-violence-prevention/

2. Great land protection story from the Port Townsend Leader about the exciting recent purchase of 81 acres of forest and wetlands by our friends at the Northwest Watershed Institute (NWI)! The land will be permanently protected and stewarded as part of NWI's 500-acre Tarboo Wildlife Preserve in the Quilcene area. Jefferson Land Trust is proud to have played a facilitation role in this project by working with the U.S. Navy to secure matching funds through the Navy’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program. The Navy’s funding purchased a restrictive easement on the land that prevents development (but does not grant any rights to the military for use of the property).

https://www.ptleader.com/stories/northwest-watershed-institute-purchases-forest-for-addition-to-tarboo-wildlife-preserve,215813

3.Senator Chris Van Hollen’s amendment in the Senate Appropriations Committee to "retain, preserve and compile" any records related to Jeffrey Epstein passed unanimously. On that note, the Epstein files are proving to be a real thorn in Trump’s shoe, and I’m here for it.

https://www.ksby.com/politics/senate-committee-unanimously-approves-amendment-that-would-preserve-jeffrey-epstein-files

[The fight over the Epstein files and release of the client list is amusing, partly because it's one of the many platforms that the Doofus ran on, and right now, his base, Magna is furious at him. Over on Twitter, Stephen King got into trouble with his fans - for stating that the Epstein Client List was about as real as the Tooth Fantasy and Santa Claus. ]

4.L.A. Mayor Karen Bass has signed an executive order to provide cash cards worth several hundred dollars—funded by philanthropy—to undocumented immigrants who miss work due to fear of ICE raids.

https://mayor.lacity.gov/news/mayor-bass-issues-executive-directive-support-immigrant-communities

5.US District Court Judge Nina Wang has fined two of Mike Lindell's attorneys $3,000 apiece for their error-riddled AI-generated legal brief. Lindell, of My Pillow, lost the defamation case and is on the hook for $2.3M in damages.

[Yeah, don't use AI to write things folks. It's a computer code created by IT - and IT can't write that well, and some can't write to save their lives.]

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5389852-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindells-attorneys-fined-for-inaccurate-ai-generated-brief/

6. Poland generated more power from clean energy sources than coal for the first time in June.

https://www.ft.com/content/ae920241-597e-49d9-a4b9-bfdfa9deabb6?accessToken=zwAGOQFSub4YkdOukgJBWX5J2dOkub_fqd6rtg.MEUCIC7wxgJShKjVR3u717YcwKFA3kRvRTs4yUanM49uZ5ZYAiEAiv7r4PrLesRguLHgvVlrgsCiItG8QsBG5GNgqjqgj5A&sharetype=gift&token=4a8b6641-d698-4252-8c2f-e667b96f2351&ref=climativity.com

7.Michael Jordan opened his fourth free clinic for people who are uninsured or underserved in North Carolina, his home state.

https://www.newsweek.com/sports/nba/michael-jordan-opens-another-free-health-clinic-native-north-carolina-2050274?sh_kit=7a2950363f4b90b1881ae76c68d24551846eea9063b67a6a14e9fa39bc419e40

8.NEW ORLEANS FINANCIAL COLLAB GETS $1M GRANT TO INVEST IN LOCAL START-UPS
The Financial Wellness Collaborative received the $1 million grant to help small businesses manage their financial health and scale-up.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/new-orleans-financial-collaborative-grant-invest/

9.Mexico sent water rescue teams and firefighters to help in Texas after the holiday weekend floods.

https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-sends-help-texas-floods-2095878

10.A new Gallup poll taken over the month of June shows Trump support on “handling the immigration issue” now stands at 35% with 62% opposing.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigration-abated.aspx
the rest of the 44 beneath the cut - the science stuff is towards the end of the list. )

And just in case you found zip in that list to smile about? Here's a photo of flowers.


Monday, July 14th, 2025 07:10 pm
Via [profile] skadowkat

1. Have you ever been to summer camp?

Yes. In Boy Scouts. I had my first sub sandwich there. The chief councilor said they were called that because if you went swimming after you ate one, you'd sink.

2. Have you ever made a s'more?

Yes.

3. Have you ever slept under the stars (no tent/tarp)?

On a trip with my sister, her husband and her friend, my brother-in-law and I did it most nights. (The girls slept in the van.) One night at a Grand Canyon campground, the commotion of barking dogs woke me. At the first whiff of the skunk, I knew there was nothing useful to be done till morning. So I pulled my head down into my sleeping bag and went back to sleep. My sister said the next morning there was a long line of women waiting to get into the restroom to wash their hair. That morning was Sunday and we'd planned to go to church services in the park. But we decided for the good of everyone, it was best if we just drove on.

4. What type of bed do you have (queen, twin, bunk, etc.)?

I believe the term is 'full.'

5. If you could retroactively erase one TV show from the history of entertainment, which one would you choose?

Having seen at least couple of shows that only lasted one episode, I'd say either Jackie Gleason's dreadful quiz show You're in the Picture or the racy and zany to the point of being stupid TV version of Animal House could be safely erased without too much objection from any one.

6. Are you more like your mother or your father?

More like my father. I do get a little panicky-excited over small problems sometimes like my mother. But I look like my dad, think like him, and reason through things more like him.

7. If you could take a year-long vacation, what would you do?

I took a couple months' vacation in Europe when I graduated from college. Even if I wasn't retired I think a whole year would just be too much.

8. If you were a crayon, which color would you want to be?

Teal

9. Which color do you think you would be regardless of what you wanted?

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Monday, July 14th, 2025 08:58 pm
So say I as I get in the car to come home. We met Lucky Uncle's wife. It was her birthday over the weekend and in a few days it'll be the first anniversary of his death so we took her out to one of her favorite restaurants: Chinese. Always dicey for a diabetic but I usually do decently in selection. This one had a dish that was represented by a hot pepper and a ginger sauce. I ended up with a sauce so sweet it was ridiculous (it also had no heat and no ginger) but my aunt is like Sheldon and is already a mess so I didn't want to send it back and give her reason to go off. I figured it won't be too much worse than general tso's which I can eat with a mild bump in sugar.

This one sent my sugar so high it was beyond what a Dexcom could read. (Yes I took my insulin, yes I'm fine, it's back down to under 150).


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Okay this ride in the graphic looks like fun

Challenge #4

Fun House
Journaling: What is making you smile these days? Create a top 10 list of anything you want to talk about.
Creative: Write from the perspective of a house or other location.



Not much is making me smile. However I DO have a list of things I love to talk about. As for a story, well I don't have that either BUT I did finish an original horror story today that has a cabin in the woods as a central location. It's not quite on point but there you go.

1. Books My genres are mostly mystery SF/F/UF and horror (all of these both adult and YA) see me on wednesday for my current reads

2. music, I will listen to almost anything. see me on mondays for music

3. cooking, I don't share recipes as much as I should. I watch a ton of YT cooking channels

4. history, it's my jam. Love historical books fiction and nonfiction, also follow history YT channels

5. Museum, I love them even little ones. Yesterday I went to a local one for a town next to where I grew up and learned Jay Livingston wasn't the only famous person out of McDonald PA, we have one woman who won 8 emmys and one pulitzer prize winning photographer

6. gardens, I will try to make gardens and museums cornerstones of my tourism but it's not just about the big beautiful gardens and conservatories, I do garden (not as well as I used to now that I'm getting old and more disabled) but I love talking about it

7. science and medicine, I am a doctor and now a biology professor, I love science and sharing links. I'm good with biology and chemistry. I'm not great with physics, astronomy and archaeology fascinate me

8. writing, I'm a published author (points to the above reading genres), I love talking about writing, looking for beta reader/critique group members in search of a group, see me on Sundays for writing links and open calls

9. cats! Well animals in general but I'm a cat person. I take care of the outdoor cat (who does not want to be indoors which sucks because he's FIV+) Rocket refuses to be inside but he is also the most amazingly friendly cat. Some jerk dropped him off. I tried to rehome him then (4 years ago) because I was barely walking after nearly losing a leg and didn't want to be tripping over a cat just then. See how well that worked out (He's also cat number 42 I've rescued from this place)

10. My fandoms! Star Trek is my forever fandom. My biggest fandoms (in terms of me getting eaten alive by them and me writing scads for) were Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the series, Fullmetal Alchemist (still my absolute favorite anime/manga), Prodigal Son (I am still bitter about its cancelation), The Owl House (ditto about the bitter) and my current obsession, Hazbin Hotel. I'm into a lot more (especially manga/anime) so if any of those are yours let's talk (or if there's a mystery/cop drama, SF/F/Horror show, anime/manga I haven't mentioned ask if I'm into it)


And it IS Musical Monday. I'm currently doing the alphabet using the last 5 years only (But you can share from whenever you please). I'm up to O

Ooooooooo )
Monday, July 14th, 2025 05:16 pm
Grabbing random questions from the Friday Five because I feel like answering random questions.

1. Have you ever been to summer camp?

Yes. But mainly day camps, which are very different than overnight camps and a lot more fun. Only over night camps were brief and in girl scouts, and when I was a kid (6-12) and each time, I had a parent along for the ride.

2. Have you ever made a s'more?

Many many times. Not so much now for various reasons.

3. Have you ever slept under the stars (no tent/tarp)?

Kind of? And I ended up going inside. I don't like bugs?

4. What type of bed do you have (queen, twin, bunk, etc.)?

Queen

5. If you could retroactively erase one TV show from the history of entertainment, which one would you choose?

Toss up between Fox News, and the Bachelor/Bachelorette. For more or less the same reasons.

6. Are you more like your mother or your father?

It's kind of 50/50?

7. If you could take a year-long vacation, what would you do?

Cruise around the world? Or maybe take various train journeys and boat journeys, and walking trips?


8. If you were a crayon, which color would you want to be?

Violet or Purple - a deep purple

9. Which color do you think you would be regardless of what you wanted?

Green

10. Would you rather be used and get blunt, broken and lose your wrapper, or not be used and stay pristine?

Used and get blunt, broken and lose the wrapper.
the rest of the 37 seemingly random meme questions )

That cheered me up greatly. Thank you, Friday Five.
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Monday, July 14th, 2025 04:15 pm
Buffy: First thanksgiving on my own, and we all got through it.
Xander: (Patting Anya on the shoulder.) And you know what? I think my syphilis is clearing right up.
Buffy: And they say romance is dead. Or maybe they just wish it.

~~Pangs~~



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Monday, July 14th, 2025 07:23 am
Here I am meaning to post more here, and didn't post this bit I posted over on Tumblr.

And so, before I watch episode 10 of Murderbot and wrap the season, what I wrote two weeks ago about episodes 7, 8, 9.

I had so many thoughts.

Most of which I verbally cracked like so much & many eggs immediately after with my watching cohort. Only fitting because that's what one needs to break to make a protein rich meal. But then again, that's not how the saying goes.

And yet, and yet, if a person understands what is meant, then maybe it is…

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Sunday, July 13th, 2025 08:29 pm
I am sad. This is the second time in 6 weeks when I've run into a changing deadline from a publisher. I had finished a story I was pretty happy with. The pay for this open call was high. I KNOW the deadline because I checked it repeatedly. Got the beta edits back, checked to triple check the word count...and the date is changed. It's frustrating. It feels like a waste of everyone's time. Yes, I can probably find another open call this will fit eventually but this bullshit of closing early and changing deadlines sucks.

I'm trying to see it from their point of view. Maybe they have SO many submissions they can't handle it and close early. Still, I can't be checking every day to places I plan to submit to see if this is going on. Most of these publishers don't have blogs. Maybe they tell duotrope or another service something they're making a change but I don't know. You can't watch them all.

How do you all keep track of deadlines/places you're interested in?

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Sunday, July 13th, 2025 05:57 pm
I slept later than usual, but on the bright side - actually got a solid 8 hours of sleep, most of it core, but what can one do? Did get 55 minutes of deep, and 2 hours of rem. I tend to be a light sleeper for the most part, either that or this smart watch sleep monitoring isn't as accurate as it may appear.

Thinking of reading "actual books" and not ones on the Kindle for a bit. The books on my shelves are more appealing than the ones on the Kindle at the moment, and I've been in a long and annoying book slump. I was more engrossed in The Fair Folk - a book this morning, than What Moves the Dead on the Kindle. Books also have a weight to them, and they don't annoyingly go blank without notice.

The technology/information age is currently depressing me, I think? Do you feel like people are throwing their opinions at you constantly? Often unedited, unfiltered, and misinformed? It's not just on social media, it's journalistic articles, non-fiction editorials, etc. And via text message. I can't escape it. People stop. I really don't want to know what some random political analyst, political science professor, historian, social activist, journalist, bored academic, or law professor thinks about our current political situation, politics, the Wars (cultural, actual, and otherwise). Yes, I know they all think the world is coming to an end, I just wish they'd keep it to themselves, why depress the rest of us?

I've been jumping around television shows this weekend, not quite sticking with anything?

Watched Andor S2 Ep. 7 last night - the end the second three arc. Each arc ends with Andor and Bix - blowing something up or killing someone, or so it seems. Good news, Bix seems to have taken care of her problem. So Episode 7 for the most part was a satisfying conclusion to the Bix/Andor and Gorst situation, that was hanging over from S1. I adore Andor and Bix.

I got a bit lost in the episode, and had to rewind it and rewatch. Mainly because my attention kept drifting away from it. This may well be a me thing and not an Andor thing, folks. Read more... )

Poker Face - also had to keep rewinding, because my attention kept wandering - I'd play on the phone, I'd play on the internet, I'd cook, etc. It's partly due to the commercials - it's on Peacock and has commercial interruptions, and partly due to the mystery not always being that gripping? This is basically Murder she wrote by way of Columbo by way of person on the run doing odd jobs. Sometimes the mystery of the week is interesting, sometimes not. Like Murder She Wrote and Columbo it likes to utilize old and big time movie stars, some of which I've not seen in a while and are over the age of 70. Ellen Barkin is a very skeletal 70.

Outlander - see previous post. [And now I'm back to it again - and watching S2 Ep.2 - mainly because I'm curious. Also, I like the actress playing Clair and she's written better in the series than in the book. Odd I know, but there it is. Also Jaime is admittedly very appeal - I rather like the actor portraying him. And I find the differences between mid-20th century medicine and 18th century medicine interesting. It's what people do that fascinates me.]

Buffy S3 - Helpless - was surprised at how well written this was. Was going to skip over it, decided not to, and it was rather better than I thought. Not quite as scary, and amusing in places. Also had to keep rewinding, because I kept wandering about doing things while it was on. It's David Fury - who, sigh, "not the nicest human on the planet" is possibly an understatement? (It comes through in the writing - his episodes have an underlying meanness to them that is hard to put my finger on - but is there? I don't think he likes people all that much? And clearly has Mommy issues?) But he's a good writer, got to give him that. And the acting is through the roof. Also, weirdly, I liked Cordelia in the episode, but did not like Willow, Xander, or OZ - who were kind of useless and annoying. Giles...wasn't supposed to be likable, but Head sold it, and made him likable and interesting. Gellar blows me away. She does things in Buffy that she's not done before or since. Jeff Kober as the villain of the week is rather excellent. But Kober always is. spoilers for well anyone who hasn't seen it in the last 25 years )

Damn, this series holds up well. And it gets better as it goes. S3 is much better than S1 and S2, writing wise. The writers finally hit their stride. I can see why Gellar was done by S3 - they worked her to death. She's in every scene, they are all very physical scenes, and she has to cry a lot. She was doing 20 hour days, seven days a week. I think they burned her out, and it's why she's not really done anything great since. They also burned out Marsters. Not so much the others.

**

Took a long walk to get groceries. Used the robot vacuums. Read a bit of The Fair Folk. Meditated. And tried not to let the noise on the internet bother me too much. The birds outside were tweeting. The sun was shining. The trees are green. It's a warm balmy day in Brooklyn. And if I don't think too much and just be, everything is seemingly just fine.
Monday, July 14th, 2025 12:04 am
BUFFY: I thought people were suppose to get smarter in college?
SUNDAY: Yeah, I think you had a lot of misconceptions about college. Like that anyone would be caught dead wearing that.

~~BtVS 4x01 “The Freshman”~~




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Saturday, July 12th, 2025 08:04 pm
Via [personal profile] shadowkat

9. Have you ever been on a journey and been held up for a long time? What happened and how late were you at your destination?

Yes, the most memorable was when coming home for Christmas from Ohio State one December. It was snowing that evening in St. Louis and our plane was diverted to Kansas City. They put us up in a hotel for the night, and gave us a voucher for some dinner. They put us on a bus and the hotel was very far from the airport, if there were more flights diverted from St. Louis that was understandable. The voucher wasn't enough for much of the things on the menu at the hotel restaurant. I felt a little cheap ordering the least expensive meal, but I was a grad student and couldn't afford a lot. We got up fairly early the next day and caught a flight back to St. Louis (In those days St. Louis was a hub airport, so there were lots of flights from KC.) We were probably no more than 12 hours late, but it seemed like a very long time.

10. Do you enjoy salad? What would be in a typical salad that you would serve/eat?

Yes. I like mixed salads with iceberg lettuce, carrots and whatever is handy like celery, spinach, green or black olives, radishes, green onions, raw turnip, cheese, etc.

11. Have you ever used an old-fashioned typewriter? Can you touch type (type without looking at the keys?)

Yes. I learned how to type on one in junior high. Our family business had a big old manual typewriter, which I used as the default secretary when we didn't have a full time secretary, off and on for many years. My sister-in-law gave me a German keyboard, full-sized manual typewriter for Christmas one year when I was in college. Can't say I got a lot of use out of it, but I liked having it for a while. In graduate school, I didn't like using the Cyrillic keyboard typewriters in the department office (to type up my weekly tests) with everyone I knew hanging around. A store close to campus advertised that they had foreign language keyboard typewriters on sale, so I went there and bought one with a Cyrillic keyboard. It was a portable manual. The joke was that the high school graduation present I'd asked for was an electric portable typewriter, which was a lot more advanced than the foreign keyboard models I got years later. I used that for papers in English through college and grad school.

Yes, can touch type, but that mostly came after I traded my typewriters for computer keyboards. Yes, I can touch type in more than one language now.

12. Do you like sushi?

I don't know, never had it, probably never will. I'm not a big fan of Japanese style food. Chinese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese and Indian, yes. Japanese, not so much.

13. Have you ever tried Tai Chi?

No, but one of my nieces has taught serious Tai Chi classes.
Saturday, July 12th, 2025 09:13 pm
today I went to my brother's place to a) see the new appliances b) to learn to use the new appliances and the new tv system because I'll be house/cat sitting.

My brother has a little pool. I spent hours hovering just at the waterline with my head (the rest of me submerged like a manatee) But with the water that hot, it wasn't that refreshing.

I had planned to go to the whiskey rebellion festival tomorrow but it was only friday/Sat. That's weird but oh well (it was too hot for festivals) I wanted to go to the Pittsburgh Pickle festival. (points to the too hot thing)

So what are you all doing this weekend? Anything fun?
Saturday, July 12th, 2025 09:33 am
Didn't sleep well last night - every time I go to bed past 11 pm, I don't sleep well. It's odd. Also, my body wants to get up at 6AM. Regardless of the time I go to bed. I think it's because I get up at 6 AM every morning and my body is used to it? Lately it's been waking up half an hour before then, and I force it to go back to sleep.

I attempted to get back into Outlander, S2, Episode 1 - and was, alas, reminded of why I stopped reading the books. Read more... )

Back to watching Murderbot (I actually prefer sci-fi to historical drama or hyper-realism). I may try Sinners - next, it's on Max. Finished Murderbot - which I keep wanting to call the Murderbot Diaries. I liked the books better - I don't remember them well enough to know how closely this followed them? Also, I'm not sure I read all of them. It was okay? I like Mensha, Gurathin, and Murderbot, everyone else was kind of annoying? It was heavy on absurdist humor, which was dependent on stupid human behavior, although the Murderbot's snarky sense of humor made up for it. I wonder if it will be renewed? It can legitimately be one season.

Also accomplished today - putting together my drug carousels for the top of my dresser - which worked a lot better than expected. Now instead of being cluttered with pill bottles and medications, the dresser is clean and neat, with all the pills neatly arranged on two clear plastic and somewhat attractive carousels. I also put together a tea and spice shelf for my kitchen, which had decluttered it in an amazing fashion. See picture below the cut:
picture )

I'd take a photo of the other - but some things must stay private. At any rate, bit by bit, I am winning my battle against clutter.

Questions/Memage:

1. What is the flavor that makes you think of summer? Or favorite summer foods?

flavors of summer days gone by )

July Question a Day Memage:

9. Have you ever been on a journey and been held up for a long time? What happened and how late were you at your destination?

Yes, multiple times. Once it was cancelled entirely. Plane travel is alas like that. I went to France by myself at the age of 16 to stay with a French family, on the way home, there was fog in Orly airport, and our plane had mechanical difficulties. long story )

10. Do you enjoy salad? What would be in a typical salad that you would serve/eat?

Yes. Power greens (pea shoots, spinach, argula and shard), green onion, cucumber, a protein (either nuts, feta cheese, seeds or chicken strips), radish, with lemon and/or apple cider vinegar and olive oil.

11. Have you ever used an old-fashioned typewriter? Can you touch type (type without looking at the keys?)

Yes. I learned how to type on one. Then graduated to electric, then to the computer. Yes, I can touch type without looking at keys, I'm doing it now. Not very fast though. I don't do anything that requires hand/eye coordination quickly. Maybe 20 minutes an hour? I'm not a fast typist. It used to matter - it no longer does - because now, we have computers.

12. Do you like sushi?

Quite a bit. My father first introduced it to me. He loved trying new foods, and had discovered sushi at work. I get it all the time. Perfect summer meal.

13. Have you ever tried Tai Chi?

Yes, I was actually taking classes from folks my junior year in college. We'd do it in the mornings in front of our residence. My boyfriend, me, another guy we were living with, and his girlfriend - who was teaching us.
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Saturday, July 12th, 2025 09:38 pm
DARLA: Who is he?
MAID: Who, that one?
DARLA: Yes. - He’s magnificent.
MAID: Oh, yeah, God’s gift, alright.
DARLA: Really? I’ve never known God to be so generous.
MAID: Oh, his lies sound pretty when the stars are out. - But he forgets every promise he’s made when the sun comes up again.
DARLA: That wouldn’t really be a problem for me actually.

~~AtS 1x15 “Prodigal”~~




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Friday, July 11th, 2025 09:12 pm
Nothing interesting today unless you think my blood sugar going from 300 at wake up to 400 an hour later and then to 70 after lunch before going back to 300 is interesting. It's pissing me off.

So have the fannish 50 fandom recs including a story by me. But before that you might find this to your tastes

Alan Tudyk Launching New Podcast with Nathan Fillion called ‘Once, We Were Spacemen’


Title: Bad Reputation

Fandom: Hazbin Hotel


Summary: Husker needs some new security after an attack on his casino and he was always on the lookout for new acts to entertain his patrons. He could handle Arackniss when dealing with the security issues. However, entertainment meant he needed to turn to hell’s newest overlord now that Valentino was gone. All Angel Dust brought to his new role was his bad reputation and his never ending boundary crossing. Husker was not looking forward to this.

Rating: teen

Author Note - written for Overlord Husk week day 6 wild card and for spikesgirl58s 6 words challenge. The words were Bikes, Fragile, Legs, Theory, Efficacious, & Imminent

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Friday, July 11th, 2025 09:28 pm
I was in a good mood when the day started, only to have it turn sour on me as it evolved. I did take a walk though, see previous entry.

I won't bore you with all the gory details. Work is boring me at the moment, but it is at least non-stressful and for the most part pleasant, unlike last year which was boring, stressful and unpleasant. So, let's be grateful for small mercies. Also having been unemployed, I'm always grateful for employment. There are worse jobs, and I'm good at this one and it utilizes my analytical and writing/communication/legal skills for the most part. I'm doing a lot more math than I'd like - but such is life. Some things are unavoidable. The boredom has to do with too many of the same edits. Parts of my job were given to incompetent people, and I'm now editing work that I used to do outright - the irony is not lost on me.

Each day, every day, of this week, actually - for reasons I don't quite understand? The local news has been reporting on hit and runs in various portions of Brooklyn. Almost as if they are tracking hit and runs across the borough? And all the hit and runs happen in the wee hours of the morning. Usually between 1 am and 4:30 am. Why people are wandering the streets in the early hours of the morning, I've no idea. It's not the safest time to be wandering about. For one thing - it's dark outside. There's no one really out there. And people tend to be more reckless at that time. Either driving drunk, speeding, or half asleep. Also people wandering about are probably drunk or not quite awake? the incidents )

I just wanted the weather and the road and rail report. I did not want to know about various hit and runs around the area. They also feel the need to tell me about various shootings around the area, in places I never venture in and never would need to. No wonder people think the city is unsafe. Frigging media.

That didn't put me in a bad mood. Other things did. But, I started out in a good mood - because there were good news items posted on Threads. I'm posting beneath the cut.

good news items )

Gave me hope. Might not give others hope. I find human beings frustrating.
Does anyone else? It can't just be me?

**

In other news? I finally finished Remarkably Bright Creatures by
Shelby Van Pelt


This is a book about a 70 year old woman who works as a janitor in an aquarium who befriends an octopus. Through a series of events, the octopus manages to solve the mystery of her missing son.
needless to say the appeal was utterly lost on me )

Reading T Kingfisher's What Moves the Dead now. We'll see if I stick with it. Kingfisher's writing style appeals to me more than Van Pelt's. (This may be why I get stuff from Amazon and on the Kindle - I like non-mainstream writers better than mainstream traditionally published and highly marketed ones? Although What Moves the Dead made it into book stores.) I also like Kingfisher's quirky characters better. They are less whiny and more real, also Kingfisher's plots feel organic to the characters and not as contrived. I think she's a better writer. But mileage may vary on that front, it always does.

Off to bed, and perchance to sleep and dream of flowers and boats and happy things. Unlikely, my subconscious is stubbornly in nightmare mode. It likes to ponder all my worries and anxieties and concerns through my dreams.
Friday, July 11th, 2025 08:52 pm
This is for the sailors and would be sailors out there ([personal profile] threemeninaboat ).

It was a pretty day today, warm with a nice breeze, so I decided to take a long walk. Original plan was to walk to the Freedom Tower and 1 World Trade to see the "Walk of Heroes" virtual exhibit, but I decided that it will be crowded and not nearly enough time. Also it was 83F/23C, and humid. So instead, I chose to walk up the pier and check out the boats. This was after checking out the smorgasbord and open air market of vendors in Bowling Green aka Immigrants Park. They had all sorts of foods on display, only one that was clearly gluten-free, and a lot of expensive cut crystals and stones. I just grabbed a bunch of maps from the tourist information booth, high tailed it back upstairs, deposited them in my back pack, then went back downstairs for my walk up the pier. Breaking Bad (my boss) was out of the office today, as was practically everyone else - so no one noticed, not that they would anyhow. And I did manage to make it back by 1:15 pm, Chilled Matcha Latte in tote.

I managed to make it all the way up to Pier 16, where the Seaport Boat Museum was located.



This was after I wandered about on a wooden deck with plenty of grass, overlooking the harbor and the city.
Deck and tall buildings )

And took a picture of one of the tall boats from the deck:

tall clipper ship )

Then wandered a bit further up the roof top deck to take a photo of the Brooklyn Bridge, and a few smaller boats.

Brooklyn Bridge and smaller boats )

Here's a picture of another tall boat, and the mall at Pier 17 behind it:




Here's a broader picture of the big tall boat and the museum:



I told threemeninaboat a while back that the Tall Clipper Ship gave cruises, but in reality its part of the Seaport Boat Museum. NYC is basically a huge city on a bunch of islands, surrounded by bridges, tunnels, rivers, bays, ocean and boats. It's one of the things I love most about NYC. There's always the slight scent of ocean in the air or water.
And being near the sea is oddly freeing in a way. Perhaps because I've always loved the water? I find it calming.

It was a calming walk - and by the time I returned to my work place, I was sweating and more than ready for air conditioning - because it was also just a touch balmy.
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Saturday, July 12th, 2025 01:18 am
Buffy: Who am I? You attacked me! Who, the hell, are you?!
Kendra: I am Kendra! The Vampire Slayer!

~~What's My Line? Part 1~~



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Thursday, July 10th, 2025 11:08 pm
Anya: So, what kind of place are you looking for?
Spike: I don't know. Maybe a crypt. Some place, you know, dark and dank. But not as dark and dank as this.
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