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Permanent Move
Due to a number of factors, the primary one being the shift of LJ's servers to Russia under the cloud of a whole mess of US/Russian political corruption, I've shifted my blog permanently to jenavira.dreamwidth.org. I'll keep up the crossposting here until I have a good reason not to. If you're someone I've been in contact with and are posting ( Read more... ) -
Vernal
Paradoxically, as a Pagan with an academic-historical bent, I've always found it harder to dredge any meaning out of the solar holidays, the solstices and equinoxes. Maybe these holidays are under-studied because their meaning seems obvious to the non-religious academic; maybe it's just that the latitude here in the upper Midwest is different ( Read more... ) -
In honor of International Women's Day: A series of heartfelt apologies to women I have known.
(This was the piece I started writing to submit to The Toast, and then The Toast shut down. But I didn't want to abandon it completely, and it seemed like a good day for it.)
1. I'm sorry I told everyone you'd brainwashed your husband into being an asshole. He was probably an asshole already.
2. I'm sorry you had to put up with your mom. Did I ever ( Read more... ) -
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A couple of months ago I picked up, for some light comfort reading, Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson. It is a housekeeping manual. It was recommended to me as "an INTJ does housework," which is exactly what it is; it's thorough, analytical, detailed, and in the November-December span when I couldn't stop thinking about the end of the world, it ( Read more... ) -
Media Update February 2017
On February 5th, I saw Diamond Dogs, a science fiction play by the House Theatre based on Alistair Reynolds's novella, with puppets by Mary Robinette Kowall. I can't remember where I heard about it, but holy god it was good. It runs through March 5; if you can get to Chicago to see it, you should go.
Also watched that weekend: Rogue One, finally. I ( Read more... ) -
Media Update, Late January
Lots of movies and TV this month; I'm still running on low brainpower, and lying on the couch letting something move on the screen is about what I'm up for.
Two more episodes of Daredevil Season 2 - "Semper Fidelis" and "Guilty as Sin." I'm finding this season less compelling than Season 1 (obviously, as I still haven't finished watching it ( Read more... ) -
root to rise
So last week I strained my knee at work, and then I had a cyst in my back get infected, and long story short I haven't been able to get any exercise in a week. But I've been thinking about my yoga videos anyway. For the past couple of years I've been doing Yoga With Adriene's January challenges, and they're kind of amazing. (I mean. I got into ( Read more... ) -
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I'm having a rough day, and it's only in the past hour or so that I let myself stop being in denial and think about why. So I made you a Spotify playlist of fight songs. Additional suggestions welcome.
There was only one that Spotify doesn't have, and it's the best one, so I'm happy to feature it. (Thank you, Welcome to Night Vale, for the Weather ( Read more... ) -
Mid-January Media Update
(I'm still working out what I want to be posting here, and trying to decide if I want to re-launch my real name blog. So for now, an update on what I've been reading & watching & listening to this month.)
I've decided that I'm going to read less this year, largely because if I give myself leave to read as much as I want, I will do nothing else, ( Read more... ) -
On Normalization
(Epistemic status: pedantry.)
Aside from "fascism" (which I am not thrilled that I'm finally learning to spell correctly on the first try), "alt-right," and "epic Twitter meltdown," the word of the past couple of months has been "normalization." As in, Don't let the media normalize Trump. As in, the normalization of authoritarianism. As in, ( Read more... )