note to self.
Fourteen hours with a four-year-old, no matter how intelligent and well-behaved, is about six hours more than I have the energy to handle.
She went most of the day on .7 oz of bagel, happily wandered the entire zoo, didn't get sunburned (although I did), and watched Dora the Explorer and Daffy Duck videos on Youtube when I collapsed with exhaustion at 3:30pm. As of 9:30PM, when her father picked her up, she still hadn't lagged.
Oh, and food for children is weird: she wanted nothing on her pasta, not even butter. Plain noodles.
So glad I finished my Remix Madness story and posted it yesterday.
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In other news, I really must share with you The Lizzie Bennett Diaries, which are adorable.
I am caught up on Fringe and Legend of Korra. As to the first: I am ... baffled. As to the second: I LOVE NAGA. And the red panda-ferret thing. And I wonder why nobody is talking about the fact that most of the city was probably built by earth and fire benders, and that the hospitals are probably full of water benders. Benders are not solely parasites, although it's easy to think that, if one's only exposure to them is through violence.
But seriously: I suspect that in addition to the bender/non-bender distinction, there are classes of benders. The guys working as muscle for the gangs are benders who never got much technical training, and they're just using raw power. The pro-benders clearly have some technique, and again, clearly, work like professional athletes here: it's physical work, but with opportunities to make it big, if you have native talent and some good training. As the sport evolves, though, I suspect chances for kids off the street like Mako and Bolin will get smaller. Unless there's a real investment into developing those young talents, like the Cape Cod League sort of thing.
And then there's the "professional" bending folks: the ones making good money working as metal-benders, or in the power stations, or in the hospitals (or building Water Tribe villages!). Fire-benders and Earth-benders probably work together in heavy industry; Metal-benders can't only work as police (and there's probably a very interesting dynamic between the metal-benders who go into police work and the ones who go into industry); Water-benders probably also service major city infrastructure, like water & waste-water (shades of The Painted Lady).
But with bending available to do so much of the work that non-benders would have to do either through brute force or the development of technology, what place does this society have for the non-bending worker? Farming, fishing, teaching, the services professions, maybe. But they would have limited opportunities in the military or in industry. Perhaps fine artisans are mostly non-benders, but how much room does an industrializing economy have for artisans?
Fascinating, and it makes me wonder what's going on in the rest of the world. Is the technology being invented trickling out to Kyoshi Island and those little villages Zuko and Iroh visited? Or are things just the same as they were?
Anyway. YAY Korra: that was very fun. Can't wait to see what happens next!
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
She went most of the day on .7 oz of bagel, happily wandered the entire zoo, didn't get sunburned (although I did), and watched Dora the Explorer and Daffy Duck videos on Youtube when I collapsed with exhaustion at 3:30pm. As of 9:30PM, when her father picked her up, she still hadn't lagged.
Oh, and food for children is weird: she wanted nothing on her pasta, not even butter. Plain noodles.
So glad I finished my Remix Madness story and posted it yesterday.
*
In other news, I really must share with you The Lizzie Bennett Diaries, which are adorable.
I am caught up on Fringe and Legend of Korra. As to the first: I am ... baffled. As to the second: I LOVE NAGA. And the red panda-ferret thing. And I wonder why nobody is talking about the fact that most of the city was probably built by earth and fire benders, and that the hospitals are probably full of water benders. Benders are not solely parasites, although it's easy to think that, if one's only exposure to them is through violence.
But seriously: I suspect that in addition to the bender/non-bender distinction, there are classes of benders. The guys working as muscle for the gangs are benders who never got much technical training, and they're just using raw power. The pro-benders clearly have some technique, and again, clearly, work like professional athletes here: it's physical work, but with opportunities to make it big, if you have native talent and some good training. As the sport evolves, though, I suspect chances for kids off the street like Mako and Bolin will get smaller. Unless there's a real investment into developing those young talents, like the Cape Cod League sort of thing.
And then there's the "professional" bending folks: the ones making good money working as metal-benders, or in the power stations, or in the hospitals (or building Water Tribe villages!). Fire-benders and Earth-benders probably work together in heavy industry; Metal-benders can't only work as police (and there's probably a very interesting dynamic between the metal-benders who go into police work and the ones who go into industry); Water-benders probably also service major city infrastructure, like water & waste-water (shades of The Painted Lady).
But with bending available to do so much of the work that non-benders would have to do either through brute force or the development of technology, what place does this society have for the non-bending worker? Farming, fishing, teaching, the services professions, maybe. But they would have limited opportunities in the military or in industry. Perhaps fine artisans are mostly non-benders, but how much room does an industrializing economy have for artisans?
Fascinating, and it makes me wonder what's going on in the rest of the world. Is the technology being invented trickling out to Kyoshi Island and those little villages Zuko and Iroh visited? Or are things just the same as they were?
Anyway. YAY Korra: that was very fun. Can't wait to see what happens next!
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.