books and an old house
What I just finished reading:
space opera, which i thoroughly enjoyed, altho the many, many side trips to learn about the various alien species were... a bit much. like, by the time i got to the actual eurovision metagalactic grand prix and met (most of) the aliens in person - so to speak - i'd forgotten a lot about a lot of them. and i wanted to know what kind of song the ursulas performed. but overall, it was fun and a bit silly with occasional smacks in the feels.
What I am reading now:
sorcery and cecelia, by patricia c wrede and caroline stevermer, which my roommate loaned me when i said i had nothing to read during lunch and wasn't feeling it for anything in particular. she brought out a bunch of books and this looked cute. it's epistolary, which isn't my thing, and it's set in regency england, which isn't my thing (but isn't totally not my thing), and i like it! it's fun.
What I'm going to read next:
i didn't know last time and i don't know any more now.
fellow americans! are you registered to vote? because if you're eligible to vote (like, you're not a convicted felon) and you don't vote i will judge you and i will judge you hard.
i don't know the voting schedules of other places, but i hope all you fabulous folks who aren't american are also registered to vote in your home countries.
saturday was free museum day - highly recommended - and my sister and i took advantage and saw a place called cogswell's grant which is kind of a house museum but mostly a repository for the last owners' stuff. they collected early american folk art and because the house was built in 1728 it's a perfect backdrop. the cogswells were the original owners - they got the land as a grant in the 17th century, hence the name - they lived there about 200 years and then sold the land and buildings to another family who lived there i think three generations, then they sold it to a guy who lived there like ten years and then he sold it to the littles, who were the last owners. they bought it in the 30s. their daughter is still alive and comes by every so often to see the place because that was her family's summer house when she was growing up. it's full of neat old stuff - mrs little liked art with a story, so there's the chest that survived a native american attack on a settler village, and a painting of a merchant ship hanging on the wall with a logbook from said ship on a stand nearby. also a lot of vaguely creepy late 18th/early 19th century portraits. also.
these are eggs.
it was a gorgeous day so after our tour of house and stuff we just drove around for a while. we saw some really nice houses in gloucester, right on the water. and then we went back to her house and ordered chinese food and watched respect which was a not-bad biopic of aretha franklin. it was a good day.
work is busy in very daily ways and today the printer stopped printing multiple copies of things. which is a problem when you need twenty-eight of something and the printer will only print (slowly) one copy at a time. also i managed to give myself a splinter in a building that's like 90% concrete and i have no idea how that happened.
starting next year the boston marathon will welcome nonbinary runners as nonbinary - as in, "nonbinary" is an option on the registration.
perseverance discovered potential past life on mars. for the second time. this will never get old.
dive the world's tallest building. maybe don't watch if you have vertigo tho.
and finally, from the department of weird - egg boxing. feel free to make your winning egg a tiny championship belt, and turn the loser eggs into omelettes.
space opera, which i thoroughly enjoyed, altho the many, many side trips to learn about the various alien species were... a bit much. like, by the time i got to the actual eurovision metagalactic grand prix and met (most of) the aliens in person - so to speak - i'd forgotten a lot about a lot of them. and i wanted to know what kind of song the ursulas performed. but overall, it was fun and a bit silly with occasional smacks in the feels.
What I am reading now:
sorcery and cecelia, by patricia c wrede and caroline stevermer, which my roommate loaned me when i said i had nothing to read during lunch and wasn't feeling it for anything in particular. she brought out a bunch of books and this looked cute. it's epistolary, which isn't my thing, and it's set in regency england, which isn't my thing (but isn't totally not my thing), and i like it! it's fun.
What I'm going to read next:
i didn't know last time and i don't know any more now.
fellow americans! are you registered to vote? because if you're eligible to vote (like, you're not a convicted felon) and you don't vote i will judge you and i will judge you hard.
i don't know the voting schedules of other places, but i hope all you fabulous folks who aren't american are also registered to vote in your home countries.
saturday was free museum day - highly recommended - and my sister and i took advantage and saw a place called cogswell's grant which is kind of a house museum but mostly a repository for the last owners' stuff. they collected early american folk art and because the house was built in 1728 it's a perfect backdrop. the cogswells were the original owners - they got the land as a grant in the 17th century, hence the name - they lived there about 200 years and then sold the land and buildings to another family who lived there i think three generations, then they sold it to a guy who lived there like ten years and then he sold it to the littles, who were the last owners. they bought it in the 30s. their daughter is still alive and comes by every so often to see the place because that was her family's summer house when she was growing up. it's full of neat old stuff - mrs little liked art with a story, so there's the chest that survived a native american attack on a settler village, and a painting of a merchant ship hanging on the wall with a logbook from said ship on a stand nearby. also a lot of vaguely creepy late 18th/early 19th century portraits. also.
these are eggs.
it was a gorgeous day so after our tour of house and stuff we just drove around for a while. we saw some really nice houses in gloucester, right on the water. and then we went back to her house and ordered chinese food and watched respect which was a not-bad biopic of aretha franklin. it was a good day.
work is busy in very daily ways and today the printer stopped printing multiple copies of things. which is a problem when you need twenty-eight of something and the printer will only print (slowly) one copy at a time. also i managed to give myself a splinter in a building that's like 90% concrete and i have no idea how that happened.
starting next year the boston marathon will welcome nonbinary runners as nonbinary - as in, "nonbinary" is an option on the registration.
perseverance discovered potential past life on mars. for the second time. this will never get old.
dive the world's tallest building. maybe don't watch if you have vertigo tho.
and finally, from the department of weird - egg boxing. feel free to make your winning egg a tiny championship belt, and turn the loser eggs into omelettes.