Wednesday didn't deserve a post
Feb. 22nd, 2018 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sereneHaving a shitty week, but I finally have a couple hours to just sit and chill, so book post it is!
Reading
Finished LaRose, by Louise Erdrich. I was introduced to Erdrich in a Women in Literature class in college, and I love her writing. There's a slow (not dull, just leisurely), conversational feel to her writing, which also includes mystical happenings in the Native American communities she's writing about, and I just feel enveloped by it when I'm reading her stuff.
In the middle of too many books, including Hillary Clinton's What Happened (which I will talk briefly about in a minute) and Nalo Hopkinson's Falling in Love with Hominids. I should probably finish some of this stuff before starting anything else new, but there are so many good books!
What Happened is healing for me, in a way. It doesn't fix what happened, or excuse me for not helping more to keep it from happening, but if Secretary Clinton can move forward with love and hopefulness from this, so can I. Or so I tell myself.
Watching
On Netflix:
A couple episodes of Casanova, which I like, and which is a little darker than I expected it to be.
Manymany episodes of the Great British Bake Off, which Netflix is calling the Great British Baking Show, probably because of Pillsbury trademark or something. James and I like it because, on the whole, the people on the show are nice to each other, even while being competitive and trying to win. Amazing how good that can feel.
Once,firecat told me zie liked my game nights because we weren't highly competitive, and I took that as such a compliment. You can play games and try to win without being mean and stomping on your opponents. This show reinforces that. I also read a sweet story from a past contestant about how Sue and Mel (the comedy team who sort of facilitate the merriness on the show) will do ridiculous things in front of the camera when a contestant is having an especially hard time or crying or something, just to make sure the footage is unusable. That is so wonderful and touching to me.
Listening
I'm spending a lot of time in the car with nothing on, because it's some quiet time I can grab. At home, I keep adding albums to my Google Play music library. I only add albums I know well and either own now or used to own, so it's like a big jukebox for my personal music library. I love it.
Playing
Still playing Two Dots, although I get tired of it quicker nowadays. Also downloaded a cryptogram game onto my phone, so I play that when I'm out of turns on Two Dots.
Reading
Finished LaRose, by Louise Erdrich. I was introduced to Erdrich in a Women in Literature class in college, and I love her writing. There's a slow (not dull, just leisurely), conversational feel to her writing, which also includes mystical happenings in the Native American communities she's writing about, and I just feel enveloped by it when I'm reading her stuff.
In the middle of too many books, including Hillary Clinton's What Happened (which I will talk briefly about in a minute) and Nalo Hopkinson's Falling in Love with Hominids. I should probably finish some of this stuff before starting anything else new, but there are so many good books!
What Happened is healing for me, in a way. It doesn't fix what happened, or excuse me for not helping more to keep it from happening, but if Secretary Clinton can move forward with love and hopefulness from this, so can I. Or so I tell myself.
Watching
On Netflix:
A couple episodes of Casanova, which I like, and which is a little darker than I expected it to be.
Manymany episodes of the Great British Bake Off, which Netflix is calling the Great British Baking Show, probably because of Pillsbury trademark or something. James and I like it because, on the whole, the people on the show are nice to each other, even while being competitive and trying to win. Amazing how good that can feel.
Once,
firecat told me zie liked my game nights because we weren't highly competitive, and I took that as such a compliment. You can play games and try to win without being mean and stomping on your opponents. This show reinforces that. I also read a sweet story from a past contestant about how Sue and Mel (the comedy team who sort of facilitate the merriness on the show) will do ridiculous things in front of the camera when a contestant is having an especially hard time or crying or something, just to make sure the footage is unusable. That is so wonderful and touching to me.Listening
I'm spending a lot of time in the car with nothing on, because it's some quiet time I can grab. At home, I keep adding albums to my Google Play music library. I only add albums I know well and either own now or used to own, so it's like a big jukebox for my personal music library. I love it.
Playing
Still playing Two Dots, although I get tired of it quicker nowadays. Also downloaded a cryptogram game onto my phone, so I play that when I'm out of turns on Two Dots.