Daylight savings is the WORST (everyone says it because it's true)
Daylight savings is why it's taken me four days to write this post. Ugh. I haven't been posting much because I've been ridiculously busy with work, parenting, gaming, belly dance, and other hobbies. But mostly work and parenting.
Also I got the kidlet's cold this weekend, right in time for Daylight Savings Time, so my circadian rhythms have been fucked on top of me being exhausted from illness. Goddamn, I'm tired. Which makes me glad I'm prepping to step down from my LARP ST unpaid job, because the paid work is exhausting enough as it is.
There's also this absolutely fascinating story by Martin Schneider about the time he switched names with a female co-worker for a couple of weeks and what happened, as well as the counterpart story from Nicole Hallberg, the woman he switched names with. It's like my entire professional and hobbyist experience distilled down into two blog stories. I've been trying to figure out how to talk about it and-- I mean, I just can't. Not right now.
Well. Not in an unlocked post, anyway. If you're over here from Facebook and you know me from gaming, and you want to hear most of my gaming thoughts, create a Dreamwidth account and drop me a line so I know who you are. I'll give you access to the locked post I'm going to make on the matter. There are ways to set it up so you can just get an email when I post about gaming stuff. That way you don't have to see all the personal cruft.
So I hear tell The Vampire Diaries ended. Which does not make me sad, because it's well past time. It stopped being a show about Elena, Bonnie, and Caroline a long while ago, and I wasn't interested in a show about Stefan and Damon and their unending struggle to maintain their brotherly relationship. The Vampire Diaries, for me, was always about the women and their friendship.
I am...not talking about politics. Fuck me, I'm not talking about politics. Mostly because of the unendingly nauseated feeling I get when I think about them these days. Good grief.
If you would like to get a slightly more distanced view of politics, you can read about archaeology:
Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle. Apparently this era marks a huge turning point in the social organization of Europe and the battle is one of the first pieces of hard physical evidence of that. There's also a fascinating story of a Bronze Age inferno in the UK that's giving archaeologists fits of glee because of the information they're going to get out of it.)
Also, it's killer research for Highlander fanfic. (One of the chief draws of Highlander fanfic in the 90s was the amazing research that was done on the historical side of things. That hasn't changed for me.)
In further evidence that scientists have terrible senses of humor, archaeologists have found evidence of the elusive Higgs bison. Yes, the Higgs bison. Oh, scientists.
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Also I got the kidlet's cold this weekend, right in time for Daylight Savings Time, so my circadian rhythms have been fucked on top of me being exhausted from illness. Goddamn, I'm tired. Which makes me glad I'm prepping to step down from my LARP ST unpaid job, because the paid work is exhausting enough as it is.
There's also this absolutely fascinating story by Martin Schneider about the time he switched names with a female co-worker for a couple of weeks and what happened, as well as the counterpart story from Nicole Hallberg, the woman he switched names with. It's like my entire professional and hobbyist experience distilled down into two blog stories. I've been trying to figure out how to talk about it and-- I mean, I just can't. Not right now.
Well. Not in an unlocked post, anyway. If you're over here from Facebook and you know me from gaming, and you want to hear most of my gaming thoughts, create a Dreamwidth account and drop me a line so I know who you are. I'll give you access to the locked post I'm going to make on the matter. There are ways to set it up so you can just get an email when I post about gaming stuff. That way you don't have to see all the personal cruft.
So I hear tell The Vampire Diaries ended. Which does not make me sad, because it's well past time. It stopped being a show about Elena, Bonnie, and Caroline a long while ago, and I wasn't interested in a show about Stefan and Damon and their unending struggle to maintain their brotherly relationship. The Vampire Diaries, for me, was always about the women and their friendship.
I am...not talking about politics. Fuck me, I'm not talking about politics. Mostly because of the unendingly nauseated feeling I get when I think about them these days. Good grief.
If you would like to get a slightly more distanced view of politics, you can read about archaeology:
Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle. Apparently this era marks a huge turning point in the social organization of Europe and the battle is one of the first pieces of hard physical evidence of that. There's also a fascinating story of a Bronze Age inferno in the UK that's giving archaeologists fits of glee because of the information they're going to get out of it.)
Also, it's killer research for Highlander fanfic. (One of the chief draws of Highlander fanfic in the 90s was the amazing research that was done on the historical side of things. That hasn't changed for me.)
In further evidence that scientists have terrible senses of humor, archaeologists have found evidence of the elusive Higgs bison. Yes, the Higgs bison. Oh, scientists.
This entry has been cross-posted to Dreamwidth (
comments). Comments are welcome on either post.