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culture consumed Wednesday
still reading Wintergirls.
I would really like to have time and energy and motivation to do things again.
Also at DW: http://wisdomeagle.dreamwidth.org/1216912.html. Comment here, or join the conversation there, where there is/are
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culture consumed Wednesday: Long Live the Queen
games
Lots and lots of Long Live the Queen. This game isn't all that great... [three days of gameplay later] goddamn this stupid game ( Read more... ) -
culture consumed Wednesday: better
Finished Abhorsen. Cried at the bit at the end that I always cry at.
Read Dervish is Digital by Pat Cadigan. I found it disappointing. I was hoping that there would be a payoff in the form of a denouement, but not so much. :/
Reading Six Suspects by Vikas Swarup. I quite like it, but I have to turn my disability politics off. DID does not work ( Read more... ) -
culture consumed Wednesday
Is it still only Wednesday? And shit I need to go to bed soooon but I am not really tired because I had church this evening and find that energizing.
Only 2 more days of work though.
Reading: Abhorsen, slowly.
Perfuming: Some BPALs.
Politics: a couple of Republican Senators' takes on tax reform.
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culture created Tuesday: salad days
I made a salad for church supper last week -- spinach and lettuce and tomato and zucchini and carrot and yellow squash and avocado -- and have had salad for dinner almost every day since then -- first the leftovers, then I moved on to buying new ingredients, including jalapenos (the first one was kind of a dud; the one in the salad I'm eating now ( Read more... ) -
culture created Tuesday: talking to strangers
The sum total of my contributions to the Q+A portions (and thus the formal portions) of SBL/AAR was So Jael the Vampire Slayer is a thing that exists in the world.
Off-record, I managed to say to a speaker I encountered later at a restaurant, "I really appreciated your critique of [scholar's] paper."
And everything else was culture consumed.
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December talking meme
I have surrendered to peer pressure. I failed miserably at this last January, so I have penciled in the topics leftover from then. Please, feel free to make requests ( Read more... ) -
culture consumed Wednesday: pumpkins, pirates, perfume, and gender-based violence
ELCA Draft Statement on Gender-Based Violence. It is well-written and I'm pleased with it in various ways, but I'm definitely most personally pleased about the inclusion of non-binary genders (not perfectly and not using the language I would use, but clearly intentionally inclusive.)
books
I read two Jincy Willett novels: Amy Falls Down, which is ( Read more... ) -
culture consumed Wednesday
books:
I finished The Night She Died and read all of Six Feet Under by Dorothy Simpson. I really like these books; they are British cozies featuring an police detective, and all the mysteries are of the small village/lots of secrets/complicated interpersonal relationships kind, very Agatha Christie (and particularly very Jane Marple; Jane Marple ( Read more... )