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Not the greatest photo–it was taken with a cell phone and is super zoomed in, but I was so excited when I saw this screech owl right outside my house a year and a half ago.

I hadn't planned on watching the game, but we caught dinner at a place in West Seattle that had it on so we got to see the Seahawks win again. My neighborhood's actually quieter in the aftermath than I expected; guess people have to work tomorrow.

Current Mood: calm

glowingfish

I don't usually drink alcohol. I don't have a particular problem with alcohol, but I also don't find it that interesting. Like once people pass a certain amount of times drinking alcohol to the point of drunkenness, there isn't a lot to be learned from the experience. Besides that mediocre 80s music is actually totally awesome!

But anyway, sometimes I do drink alcohol to decruft. Basically, every couple weeks or so, my brain gets too full of chores and things I need to take care of, and I can't do any of them. So sometimes drinking helps me kind of hit "reset"...is the theory. And a lot of times it does work!

So this Friday, I bought a bottle of wine and drank it. And by the time I had finished it, I was like at the phase where I was really curious what was around the bend, so to speak...so I took a half-liter bottle of wine I had in a cupboard and drank that in one go.

So I got sick, blacked out, and woke up later...without much of a headache, actually, but feeling *exhausted*, but couldn't sleep. And, later, I realized that I didn't get much out of it. So I think I will lay off drinking for a while.

starandrea

Goals, eh? I think one of the reasons I was going to write about them was because when I looked back at this week I realized that my English journaling had already fallen off, even though I felt like it hadn't. Thanks, documentation, for correcting my perception.

♥ I got my fox diamond painting back out, so that's a project that could proceed but hasn't. I might put it away to work on next winter and start the spring dragon one now instead. Until I actually put diamonds on the canvas I suppose it doesn't matter, except that perhaps my motivation would be affected by the design.

♥ I found a book at the library with a blue cover that I was willing to read (thanks Liu Cixin for having an anthology with a blue cover and a great forward) so that's another library bingo square checked off.

♥ The theme at

beagoldfish last week was tropes, so I did Dragonji and Foxxian in Legos and then

marcicat wrote Obviously which inspired me to write Apparently.

♥ I posted my

chenqing_100 snowscape story seven minutes before the deadline! Huge thanks to

ranalore for creating and continuing

chenqing_100 and making it such a serene, welcoming place to be.

♥ A Chinese vlogger mentioned leaving hot water in the pot so it was easy to heat and drink throughout the day, and that has transformed my winter water consumption.

♥ An English vlogger mentioned 75fluent.com, which I signed up for and immediately decided not to do, since I'm already doing more than all of the daily goals except "study a textbook," but that inspired me to get out my elementary school Yuwen textbooks and start from the beginning.

This week I would like to:
+write something for

chenqing_100
+write something for Fluffbruary
+photograph some Legos for

beagoldfish
+record another hour for the HTLAL output challenge (2/50)
+finish Yuwen Grade 1

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mab_browne

Late last week one neighbour offered me zucchini. Just a nice neighbourly thing, right? Except that the veggies were upsetting her because she'd been feeding her grandchild a zucchini fritter and then realised that said kiddie was having an anaphylactic reaction. Adrenaline in the home from an ambo, and antihistamines and follow-up in the local hospital occurred. 'They were enjoying it, too', my poor neighbour mourned. The fritter, not the medical excitements.

And then today, after a very light nap and the expectation that I'd soon rise to tackle my kitchen, hoorah! I heard one hell of a bang. My other neighbour's car had been parked on the road. Had been. It was now parked on the footpath and thoroughly munted because some dozy daydreamer had strayed out of their lane and collided good and proper. Rumour, aka my son who I sent over with a yard broom to help clean the mess, stated that dozy daydreamer's car was also probably a write-off and that dozy daydreamer apparently wasn't insured. My neighbour was safe inside but pretty angry as you might imagine.

Events do not go in threes, correct? ;-) And the kitchen did get tackled.

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thewayne

I started collecting these decades ago. Amazing how apt many are and from people who have been dead decades, if not centuries.

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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. -Frank Wilhoit

They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery. -They Live (movie), 1989

We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. -- Ray Bradbury

The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray. -- Robert G. Ingersoll

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis

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ermingarden

I enjoyed The Atlantic's annual roundup of superb owl photos (gift link) this morning. I didn't watch the game; my Sunday evening plans were just choir, as usual.

It's been a quiet weekend for me, and a chilly one - weather during the work week was fine, but the temperature absolutely plummeted yesterday, and it looks like more cold ahead.

I have made some progress in Mansfield Park, though I'm still not even halfway through; I just finished the first volume (of three), in fact. Honestly, it took me a while to get into the story, and to get a good sense of the heroine, Fanny - at first, I pitied her but wasn't otherwise too interested, but now I adore her! And on a personal level, as someone who was told many times as a child that she was too sensitive, I love that Fanny's sensitive nature doesn't seem to be condemned or shown as an obstacle she needs to overcome in order to come into her own. It's even a good thing to the extent that it makes her sensitive to others' feelings and needs, and to the demands of propriety - she's socially conscientious, in a way the Bertram siblings are not. What she needs isn't to be less uptight or to grow a thicker skin, but to trust her own judgment more.

Exciting developments planned for the week ahead: I start French classes Tuesday night! I've studied Spanish and Latin, but never French - so wish me bonne chance!

Current Mood: cozy

yaaurens

Last weekend got away from me like crazy, much like this weekend threatened to do.

Hamlet was impressive. I can't imagine being able to remember all of those lines, and there were a couple of spots where Suzy didn't remember either, but they covered very well. There were a few line changes that I was thrown by - "I know a hawk from a heron" rather than a handsaw? It made no sense to change it, but they did. I was also sad that they cut the line about telling Claudius to seek Polonius in th'other place himself if his messenger can't find Polonius in heaven.

That whole evening was pretty heckin' fun though; three of us carpooled down, so Robin and I got to talk c-dramas the whole way, then we picked up Alex and met Airawyn at Scum and Villainy for dinner before the show. And then I prevented myself from punching Joss Whedon in the face! Which I'm not like. Proud of? I totally wanted to punch him, but obviously not doing so in public and getting arrested was a win.

The one damper on the evening was that Munchkin (Allesy's kitty) was ill and very sadly, that continued after the evening. He was a good kitty, and had a good, long life. I'm very sad about it, but even more sad for Allesy having to make that decision but he was not going to get better.

I also got asked to go into work early on Saturday after the show, which, ugh, I wanted my whole morning to rest up post show. And then I ended up staying an hour and a half LATE too, and all for no work, just sitting around studying. That's not entirely true, I did sit in on a few interviews and caught a deduction for someone that the TA didn't see. I think it's going to be very helpful that I've just taken the ITC and have had more recent training on stuff even though there are so many things that I'm like "oh shit do I actually know this?"

Also had to work Sunday, after wurch, which sucked, and again, there was nothing to do so we closed early, heh.

The week was.... a week? Mom had a meeting with her teachers that left her very upset, and we're all brainstorming what to do about the situation. She really wants to not be running the business anymore (even though she does very little with it), but no one wants to take over and she doesn't really want to just drop everything entirely. Personally, I would like to not have to deal with the business every again, because I am sick and tired of charter school stupidity, so if we could find someone to take it all over, I would be peaceing the fuck out asap.

Got taken off the schedule for Saturday, and then on Thursday boss asked if I could come in after all. Good thing I did, because I ended up getting two clients, bringing my total for returns up to 5! I'm not entirely sure I did everything right for the one though, because it was a military thing, and there is so much weirdness around how to do military taxes. I didn't do anything WRONG I'm pretty sure, but I probably could have done it more Right. Chatted with our tax expert at the Methodists today and am starting to think that maybe that should be where I put my focus with taxes. There are so many different niches you can go into, and around here, or anywhere with a military presence? Having that expertise would make me highly sought after.

Also had a chat with my former piano student today about possibly becoming a piano technician, which, ha. That has been kicking around in the ol' noggin for years too and I've never done anything about it. But it could potentially be a good outside of tax season gig; just do piano tunings over the summer/fall. I dunno. I know nothing. I'm worse than Jon Snow about what I know.

Got a lot of random little things coming up this week that I really wish I could just smoosh into one day and have done with it, but nooooo gotta carve out lots of little pockets of time that eat up my non-work time and make it hard to get anything else done. Hard to believe Escapade is week after next - I haven't done anything for the art show yet, and I have no idea if I'm going to be able to do any prep for the fan fair or anything else. Or if I'll be awake enough to do it (last year I just decided to rest, and that was an excellent decision). Hopefully I will get to actually have Saturday off this week so I can do some stuff for that.

Lunar New Year is next week too; Z1L's new movie is supposed to come out over the holiday, but I haven't been able to find any local info, and since it's mid-week I probably won't get to see it, nooooo. They gave it a really stupid English name too, despite the original name being perfectly good. Honestly, at this point I'm just hoping I won't be asked to close on the 17th so we can go do holiday food.

Media stuffs: finished The Immortal's Ascension, annoyed that it was a season one with no promise of a season two. Now we're watching The Day of Becoming You, which is a het romance body-swap and so very funny. Zhang Xincheng and Liang Jie both do a wonderful job being each other's characters. Last night was "Saturday Night at the Movies" as dad likes to call it, but rather than a movie we watched the new Agatha Christie's Seven Dials mini series, which was actually quite enjoyable. We also binged the first half of Wonder Man on one of the nights I got back from work late (but also early?) and didn't want to subtitle, and that has also been highly enjoyable so far. I keep thinking about Trevor Slattery and the couple of monologues that have just been transcendent. Like, yeah, if THAT was how he did Lear, then yes, his Lear would have been the talk of Croyden. Anyway, still have three eps of that, which maybe we'll do post Superb Owl (but maybe we'll do Olympics).

I am ANNOYED that I will not get to watch any of the curling that I'm interested in because of THINGS HAPPENING at the SAME TIME. Rude.

Goals for the week: finish P&L for MCC, finish P&L for mom, read something not tax-related.
Good things: physio, snuggly blankets, ginger snaps (again, because they are Still Good)

watersword

Another 4 inches of snow? And high winds? And "arctic chill"? I cannot.

I am trying the applesauce loaf again, this time with some chunks of "Gold Rush" apples in the batter and making sure not to use lumpy brown sugar. Fingers crossed.

Amtrak's 2FA system is garbage and I may have to contend with Julie, my nemesis (Amtrak's phone customer "service" bot) to get to New York to see Dessa in March (and sneak out of a conference early); my splurge on Restaurant Week was kind of a waste of money (pasta oversalted, rosé weirdly bland); I am sick of all my clothes, no doubt because I have been wearing all of them at the same time for the past month, and the idea of acquiring different clothes is the epitome of exchanging money for bads and disservices.

THIS IS THE BAD PLACE.

starandrea

Marci: I think the Venn diagram of people who snowmobile at night and people who watch the Super Bowl is basically a circle.

I accidentally joined a weekend 5k challenge on the Garmin app. (I mean, I joined it on purpose, but I thought it was walking 5k over the course of the weekend, and it turned out to be running 5k all at once. Or, as Aaron says, "I did a marathon once: one mile every day for a month.")

Also when I posted something about goals last weekend I definitely mentioned kicksledding, although I can't remember if it was a goal or just a random comment, but let me tell you about kicksledding in New England, about which I know almost nothing. I know it's harder than I expected to actually get a kicksled here, because apparently the US isn't snowy enough to readily distribute kicksleds to every corner of the country.

(In the movie "The Day After Tomorrow," what was the line above which they wrote off the population? I thought it was an actual latitude line, but the internet tells me it was just "everything north of Washington DC." Seems like that's enough of the country to have kicksleds, to me.)

Anyway, Canada makes them, but because of tariffs won't ship them to the US. Alaska will ship them but you have to meet the plane at the airport. Minnesota will ship a kit to your door, which is how I ended up building my own kicksled from a kit in our living room.

( taking adventure selfies )

( how equpiment affects the experience )

( survival strategies and books )

( things that can kill you in Colorado )

Anyway, spoiler, I didn't die, and also it was really fun. I should make a goals post so I can note the 100% increase in kicksledding this year.

torachan

1. Our hotel tickets are all sorted! We're going to be staying at three different hotels this time as opposed to just one last time, so that will be interesting. Originally I had wanted to just make it two, one in Tokyo and one in Osaka, but the hotel near Universal Studios Japan only has a hotel shuttle earlier in the day and there's only two flights daily from LA to Osaka, both of which arrive later in the evening, after the shuttle stops running. So the options are take a taxi (expensive and not what I want to spend our money on) or the train, which requires multiple transfers and is not ideal after a twelve hour flight. The shuttle does run to the area around Osaka station all night, so since we're only planning to go to Universal Studios two of the four days we'll be in Osaka, we decided to get a hotel in the city for a couple days then switch to one closer to Universal Studios for the time we'll be at the park. For the Tokyo leg of the trip, even though we won't be doing Disneyland every day, we did opt to get a hotel near the parks and just stay there the whole time, even the days we go into the city, because our Disneyland days will be spread out.

2. We got Popeye's for lunch today. We both really like their chicken, but there's none around here. In fact, for some reason we have no fast food chicken options nearby except Chick-fil-A, which we refuse to eat at. But we happened to be near Popeye's, so we took the opportunity.

3. I took a longer than usual walk this morning and stopped at the fancy donut place. They have a couple new Valentine's donuts and I got a strawberry chocolate malasada, which had a chocolate coating and was filled with like strawberry pudding. It was super tasty.

4. Tuxie!

flareonfury

40daysofdrabbles - so I created this community a few months ago in honor of the old request challenge thing I used to do (of various degrees of success). I am tempted to use the community in the style of

adventdrabbles, 'cause it seems wasteful not do more with it. So I'll probably post "prompts" daily there for the period of Lent.

Lent is starting February 18th, and again I'm not really religious (despite my family wishes), but I figured I could try this challenge again and see if I could exercise my writing abilities a bit more. I'm gonna try and get everything written & posted by Easter, or by end of April at the latest. *fingerscrossed*

You do not have to be a "friend" to request a pairing, but if you are unsure of a fandom/pairing I like - my list is located here (while not complete exactly, it's mostly is) or feel free to check out the tag list on

harpiewriting for ships I've already wrote for. I also technically have a list of Crossover pairings but that hasn't really been edited since 2012 so yeah... Also some of these fandoms are old and I have not recently watched them (or at times finished them).

Request as much as you want since there are so many slots open.... I'll try to pick the ones I know for sure I can/will write & add them to the table. Prompts aren't required. (Or preferably use a prompt from one of my tables I need to write for! :P ) Drabbles will at least be 100 words, maybe more depending on the plot bunnies.

I rarely write dark fics, smut, or super angsty stuff, so if you prefer that, I might not be able to do it? If you have any Do Not Wants, let me know otherwise it'll be whatever my brain can think up.

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olivermoss

Last night I went to the Electric Blocks and also branched out a bit along the east side. Still need to make a list of what else I want to hit before the festival is over.

I've also taken a bunch of video clips which are hard to post there, but here are people gathering for the illuminated bike ride

After I wound up at Wonderlove and had the first cider I'd had in a while, nice dry one. They've got screens with 3 separate Olympic feeds on it so there was skiing, skating and curling all playing at once.

Anyway, here is Cuddlebug:

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candyheartsex

The treatless spreadsheet is now available! This includes all non-defaulting participants who have fewer than two gifts.

The spreadsheet will be updated at least once a day, including during the anon period, to keep it current and remove names as we all work on our treating!

Any pinch hitters who are not signed up for the exchange can also add requests to the pinch hitter prompt post, and I will add them to the treatless spreadsheet as well.

ysabetwordsmith

... arrived today! :D They always send a surprise extra packet of something, this time 'Evening Sun' sunflower, which looks to be a cultivar that produces medium-size flowers in shades of red. That ought to be fun.

Current Mood: busy

dray

Hallo, hope everyone's been well! January was a rough year, but at least February's proving to be a shorter one.

Like usual, I fall off of Dreamwidth about midway through January for whatever reason and then come and go like a hummingbird too jacked-up on sugar-water to remember where its roost went.

I have been resolving for months to do the

weekendwritingmarathon weekend challenge (to do it every weekend, in fact!) but I keep being extremely burnt out by Saturday, and then use Sunday to get all my chores done, and then suddenly Capitalism has shoved me back into its little hamster wheel and off I go again for another week! I've been also documenting my travels with ADHD for the last three quarters of a year, and there's a very specific and hefty amount of that which blocks my ability to focus, both on creative habits and self-care. So it's been pretty rough.

However, I managed to wangle myself back into my WIP's doc for

everwood ficlets and

rainbowfic prompts, and managed to tidy up two shorts which are now up on both communities.

The first, Creature Comforts, follows a short blurb about the dryad Daphne and the lumberjack Boyce, from Daphne's point of view. (I love writing from her perspective because Boyce is not a small man, but she is just as big as he is and probably is twice as strong. It's fun trying to get into the heads of the POV characters as I go through each of these ficlets!)

The second, Blood Siblings, was posted nearly a year ago in Everwood, but I hadn't popped it over onto Rainbowfic yet. It's about Brandili's misuse by her political-marriage, her escape from that, and her burning desire for revenge when she realizes that her husband knew of her hiding place all along and had in fact been allowing her to think she'd escaped him. If everything else lines up, I'm looking forward to when she can slice him up with her badass old pirate's sword or have her real beau shoot him through the heart with a cursed arrow. Forgiveness for past wrongs? Nahhhh.

Everwood is composed of many characters over about a decade or so and it's got a sort of ensemble, episodic bent to it, but I do have an overarching plot and message that I'm trying to weave through it all: Found family and found community are stronger in their day-to-day moments than the unceasing sprawl of colonization... and working through the everyday poison of the effects of colonization can in fact be what makes those bonds stronger. It's meant to be hopeful, in the end. Every one of the characters in this story are weird in some way and a lot of them are on the ropes. There's something about writing them recovering from all the blows they've taken that makes me a little happier.

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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Sunday, February 8, to midnight on Monday, February 9 (8pm Eastern Time).

Poll #34197 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 20

How are you doing?

I am OK
9 (45.0%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
11 (55.0%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
9 (45.0%)

One other person
5 (25.0%)

More than one other person
6 (30.0%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

rimrunner

Poachers turned rangers, complicity in tyranny, the colors of marble, bears > Bigfoot, For All Mankind

Francis Annagu’s “How Former Poachers are Protecting Nigeria’s Vanishing Rainforest” explores the lines of tension, conflict, and resolution in taking a conservation approach to a multiuse ecosystem. Buried deep in the heart of this article is one way—probably the most effective way—to turn hunters into rangers: make the latter a more attractive option, especially in terms of pay. That hasn’t answered every challenge, as agriculture and deforestation continue to press on the forest reserve. But that problem isn’t unique to Nigeria, either. Make sure you scroll far enough to see the forest elephants.

Andrea Pitzer—always worth reading—writes in “Love that is Complicit” that whatever our opinions on immigration in the U.S. (my own is that the government has been kicking the can down the road with regard to just, humane, and consistent policy for most of my lifetime), the current situation requires either looking past an awful lot of cruelty to find acceptable, or very carefully not even knowing that there’s something to look at.

In “These Marbles were Never White,” Danai Christopoulou joins a growing number of Greek commentators on the Anglophone world’s ongoing love affair with Greek mythology, in ways that often obscure that mythology’s vibrancy and cultural context. I’m no exception here, as someone who’s called myself a Hellenic polytheist for almost 15 years, and made my own contribution to the body of stories based on Greek myths and legends. Those were my entry points into a deeper appreciation for both modern and ancient Greek culture and language, but Christopoulou’s piece highlights the cost of receiving these stories stripped of their cultural, historical, and linguistic context—which is the way that those of us in the Anglophone sphere tend to receive them. When I visited Greece in 2008, the museum she describes was still under construction. Some years later I visited the British Museum, where the Elgin marbles are still on display—complete with rather defensively worded signage. Hmm.

Jeff VanderMeer’s “Double Take” is the kind of nature writing I’d love to do. Early in his piece on Bigfoot and bears, he says:

I’m zealous about the fact that we don’t need Bigfoot populating the wilderness to find the natural world mysterious and marvelous. The bears often mistaken for cryptids, for example, already exist and capture our imagination for very good reasons.

This right here is why I became a tracker. VanderMeer goes on to discuss what he’s learned about animals from the trail cameras in his yard—contrasting this with purported Bigfoot images on trail cameras in the woods and how none of them seem to reliably be the real deal. One of his interviewees for the article says that if Bigfoot enthusiasts didn’t have Bigfoot, they’d just get into some other conspiracy theory, not into actual nature. Which I think is true, and also sad.

I recently joked that I watch most movies and TV shows months to years after everyone else has already seen them, which is why I only got to the first season of “For All Mankind” in the last few weeks. It’s out on BluRay, and if you have a player, this really is an excellent way to watch it—the gorgeous visuals are shown off to their best effect. The first season takes place beginning in 1969, and they get the tech and attitudes of the period so right, I’d forget I wasn’t watching a documentary (or maybe Apollo 13) until something obviously ahistorical happened. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like the subsequent seasons will get physical disc releases anytime soon, so I may have to pony up for Apple TV if I want more stuff like this.

Current Mood: thoughtful

rimrunner

I haven’t worked in libraries since 2023, but I still follow that world closely enough to learn this week that Fobazi Ettarh had passed away.

Though I never met her, seeing the outpouring of support and good memories across library social media is a testament to both her influence and the library community at its best. Before and after DEI became a political target, and then a political hot potato, she was doing the hard work: addressing longstanding inequities and biases present in a profession that likes to pride itself on inclusiveness.

She’s probably best known for her article “Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves,” which appeared in the journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe (best journal title ever btw) in 2018. Librarianship isn’t the only field subject to vocational awe, of course, and friends and acquaintances who work in other such fields have always understood exactly what the term means without having to be told. But here’s Ettarh’s definition:

Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.

Correlative to this is that the people working in such fields are supposed to feel so lucky to be doing such important work that they won’t complain about things like low pay, mission creep, unrealistic expectations, or outright abuse.

I left librarianship in 2023. I can’t say that I’ll never return, and vocational awe was only one part of why I left. But Ettarh’s work, both that article and subsequent, helped me to understand something important about vocation, a piece that had been missing in my thinking up until then. Most of my career in librarianship was spent at an ELCA-affiliated liberal arts university, where I learned a great deal about Lutheran Protestantism beyond the fact that it existed. (I grew up Catholic.) Among other things, this idea of vocation: of finding and pursuing your life’s fulfillment.

It’s an attractive idea, one by no means limited to Lutherans. But part of vocational discernment has to be understanding vocational context. Vocational awe obscures that discernment, making it possible to walk past or tolerate all sorts of issues that ought to be confronted.

Ettarh’s work was about libraries and librarianship, specifically, but it’s applicable to so much more. As someone who’s drawn to what one might call “do-gooder” work—since retiring from librarianship I’ve focused my volunteer work on conservation, a field that literally could not exist without countless hours of volunteer labor—Ettarh’s scholarship reminds me to be intentional about what sacrifices I make and where I need to draw the line, and not only for myself.

Current Mood: contemplative

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A Superb Owl

I don't usually drink alcohol...

I love that I didn't mention kicksledding at all

Multifandom: Unsent Letters - An Epistolary Exchange

I'm fine but my neigbours aren't having fun the last week or so

Sunday

Some quotes that I've gathered over the years about politics and stuff in general

Superb Owl Sunday

Weekly-ish Update, now with more ish (2/8/26)

no. no, thank you.

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