today it was VERY WINDY and i unpacked a big box and two little ones
first, good news! i saw the ankle doctor on monday FOR THE LAST TIME. he looked at my x-rays, felt my foot, told me to have a good summer because i earned it. he asked if i had any questions. i did not. so i am DONE WITH THE ANKLE CHECKUPS. the ankle is still stiff, probably because i was really bad about doing my exercises after i left physical therapy, and it's still swollen which i think will be a thing for a while, but otherwise, FINISHED. it's only been seven months. :|
last night was my cousin's twins' college grad party, and it was so nice to see cousins and eat food and just hang out and be normal. (well. we're a bunch of weirdos. but you know what i mean.) my cousin's youngest kid is TALLER THAN ME NOW. i keep expecting him to be the same size he was for his bar mitzvah, but no. he's in high school! he's a real teenager! and the twins are old enough to drink legally! talking about beer with the boytwin was deeply weird but also kind of fun. just to show how different the twins are, the girltwin had to write a senior thesis (which she learned at the beginning of may) (she graduated this past weekend) (the thesis was thirty-five pages), and it was about transactional sex and women in... uh... namibia? somewhere in africa, and i really wish i could remember. she's going on to a master's program (it's a year) in urban planning and community development - it sounded like the kind of program that leads to working with community-based non-profits, or setting public policy - serious shit. really cool, but serious. and the boytwin wrote a kind of music sequence, nine parts, with strings and piano, with the theme that each part is a room in a house, and the whole piece is the story of the couple that lives there. also really cool! he's a talented kid. but a much different kind of cool and a much different kind of talent than in his sister's thesis.
they did not open their graduation presents while i was there, so i don't know how they felt about the titanium sporks.
and now, wednesday reading meme, comics edition!
What I just finished reading:
finder: chase the lady, written and drawn by carla speed mcneil and apparently collected from when the story was anthologized in dark horse presents which i didn't think was still a thing. maybe it is? in any case, i had no idea there was a new finder trade until the weekend i went to the comic shop IN PERSON and there it was. csm adds footnotes in the backs of all her trades, which i love - seriously, footnotes are so fun - and they're super useful, since you can mention a lot of worldbuilding in the footnotes that you can't really put on a comics page. you can explain a lot, even things that don't necessarily need explanation and aren't super relevant but are just neat to know. but on the other hand, sticking something in a footnote instead of on a page can be a lazy way to tell the story. there was a touch of that. also - should i spoiler cut? does anyone read finder but me? - eh, i'll cut anyway. the main character (rachel) apparently has a relationship with her secretary/personal assistant (psykhe), and while it's clear psykhe has the hots for rachel - seriously, SUCH A CRUSH - it's much less clear rachel feels the same. except she does? she asks psykhe to marry her, and because psykhe doesn't have money or a title, it's obviously a love match. but i got almost no indication that rachel cared about her like that - and slept with her? more than once? - until all of a sudden she's proposing. i didn't really get it from the footnotes either. i still really liked the story, i just wasn't thrilled with how the romance played out.
also giant days vol 9, which is intensely adorable. i feel like every time i read another volume my reaction is always the same - "it's so cute!" but it really is. and so many of the characters are just so likable. (not all of them, but lots.)
What I am reading now:
still the provincials.
What I'm going to read next:
no idea. none. the next giant days, probably.
so when i was watching raiders of the lost ark last saturday i was actually watching it on the 40th anniversary of the premiere. raiders is forty. jeebus. it was hugely influenced by pulpy adventure serials and dime novels, altho almost none of that reference is super familiar to people now. which i personally don't think takes anything away from how good a movie it still is.
i'm gonna blow up the ark, rene! ...i'm sorry, i'm sorry, it's a pavlovian response.
forgotten essays show the secrets and dreams of polish jewish teens in the 30s, and surprise surprise, they're very similar to the secrets and dreams of other teens. they think about love and sex and best friends and how boring their towns are and how badly they want to leave and how they'll change the world and how little their parents understand them. it's reassuring how some things haven't changed in eighty-five years, and it's heartbreaking because these were just normal kids living normal lives, but because of the time and place of those lives, very few if any of them lived long enough to see their dreams through.
lego is releasing a typewriter set - that's, you know, a typewriter made out of lego. that works. it's only 2000 pieces.... it goes on sale in july and i want it.
last night was my cousin's twins' college grad party, and it was so nice to see cousins and eat food and just hang out and be normal. (well. we're a bunch of weirdos. but you know what i mean.) my cousin's youngest kid is TALLER THAN ME NOW. i keep expecting him to be the same size he was for his bar mitzvah, but no. he's in high school! he's a real teenager! and the twins are old enough to drink legally! talking about beer with the boytwin was deeply weird but also kind of fun. just to show how different the twins are, the girltwin had to write a senior thesis (which she learned at the beginning of may) (she graduated this past weekend) (the thesis was thirty-five pages), and it was about transactional sex and women in... uh... namibia? somewhere in africa, and i really wish i could remember. she's going on to a master's program (it's a year) in urban planning and community development - it sounded like the kind of program that leads to working with community-based non-profits, or setting public policy - serious shit. really cool, but serious. and the boytwin wrote a kind of music sequence, nine parts, with strings and piano, with the theme that each part is a room in a house, and the whole piece is the story of the couple that lives there. also really cool! he's a talented kid. but a much different kind of cool and a much different kind of talent than in his sister's thesis.
they did not open their graduation presents while i was there, so i don't know how they felt about the titanium sporks.
and now, wednesday reading meme, comics edition!
What I just finished reading:
finder: chase the lady, written and drawn by carla speed mcneil and apparently collected from when the story was anthologized in dark horse presents which i didn't think was still a thing. maybe it is? in any case, i had no idea there was a new finder trade until the weekend i went to the comic shop IN PERSON and there it was. csm adds footnotes in the backs of all her trades, which i love - seriously, footnotes are so fun - and they're super useful, since you can mention a lot of worldbuilding in the footnotes that you can't really put on a comics page. you can explain a lot, even things that don't necessarily need explanation and aren't super relevant but are just neat to know. but on the other hand, sticking something in a footnote instead of on a page can be a lazy way to tell the story. there was a touch of that. also - should i spoiler cut? does anyone read finder but me? - eh, i'll cut anyway. the main character (rachel) apparently has a relationship with her secretary/personal assistant (psykhe), and while it's clear psykhe has the hots for rachel - seriously, SUCH A CRUSH - it's much less clear rachel feels the same. except she does? she asks psykhe to marry her, and because psykhe doesn't have money or a title, it's obviously a love match. but i got almost no indication that rachel cared about her like that - and slept with her? more than once? - until all of a sudden she's proposing. i didn't really get it from the footnotes either. i still really liked the story, i just wasn't thrilled with how the romance played out.
also giant days vol 9, which is intensely adorable. i feel like every time i read another volume my reaction is always the same - "it's so cute!" but it really is. and so many of the characters are just so likable. (not all of them, but lots.)
What I am reading now:
still the provincials.
What I'm going to read next:
no idea. none. the next giant days, probably.
so when i was watching raiders of the lost ark last saturday i was actually watching it on the 40th anniversary of the premiere. raiders is forty. jeebus. it was hugely influenced by pulpy adventure serials and dime novels, altho almost none of that reference is super familiar to people now. which i personally don't think takes anything away from how good a movie it still is.
i'm gonna blow up the ark, rene! ...i'm sorry, i'm sorry, it's a pavlovian response.
forgotten essays show the secrets and dreams of polish jewish teens in the 30s, and surprise surprise, they're very similar to the secrets and dreams of other teens. they think about love and sex and best friends and how boring their towns are and how badly they want to leave and how they'll change the world and how little their parents understand them. it's reassuring how some things haven't changed in eighty-five years, and it's heartbreaking because these were just normal kids living normal lives, but because of the time and place of those lives, very few if any of them lived long enough to see their dreams through.
lego is releasing a typewriter set - that's, you know, a typewriter made out of lego. that works. it's only 2000 pieces.... it goes on sale in july and i want it.