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March comes in like a lamb
Mar. 1st, 2022 12:08 pmFirst of March, warm breezy day in STL. So nice to have the windows open. And for a change, it doesn't look like this week is going to echo the last three, where each time, we had one warm day, then a very sudden temperature drop, a ton of rain and then sleet-ice-snow. This week looks like just warm for a few days, then cooler but no rain or snow. It might be spring! Or it might just be a sample, with more winter to come, but I'll enjoy it anyway.
It's been a busy couple of months. We went away in January for an extended weekend as a late anniversary celebration, and on the first full day, Tammie broke her left ankle. So our weekend turned into running around between pharmacies and urgent cares, and the subsequent several weeks have consisted of me trying to keep the household running basically by myself. Rose has stepped up to help, thank the gods, but she's not all that physically capable either. In some ways it's been a relief, in that there's no 'who's gonna do it' questions that end in nothing but discussion happening until everyone is too tired to do anything anyway. It's either I do it, or it doesn't get done.
I've managed to watch a little bit of media in amongst all that; Chris and I watched the new season of the Witcher, which I found disappointing in some way I wasn't able to pin down. I wanted Geralt and Jaskier to reconcile. I did appreciate the Yen/Jask commiseration over Geralt walking away from both of them, though.
I've been rewatching Word of Honor with Ollie, somewhat inconsistently, but we've got two episodes left now. They are going to be so upset with me once we watch the next one, I fear.
And I watched all of the Imperial Coroner, which was very sweet and cute--and I already made a podfic for it, of one of the thirteen whole fics in English. Of those 13, several are f/f, and several more are OT4, so that's a nice unusual ratio.
Just the other day watched Kimi no Na wa (Your Name) which was beautiful, a little sad and a little hopeful.
Have also made much podfic, go look for yourselves if you're interested, at https://archiveofourown.org/users/semperfiona/works. Writing hasn't really been happening except for a couple of drabbles that might someday become an actual story if I would go back to them.
I started taking an actual beginning Chinese class. It's pretty travel-oriented, from what I can tell after just two lessons, and so far we haven't done any like grammar or vocab drills, much less tried to learn any hanzi, just repeating sentences. Most of which I already understood or knew, because at this point I'm 18 months in to Duolingo Mandarin. (82% on the last mastery quiz, though a lot of that is because I'm good at guessing. But 'figuring it out from context' is also a thing, so go me?) One of the women in the class is also into the Untamed and other dramas so maybe new friend? She saw my wangxian bunnies in the background on zoom and was like "I HAVE THOSE TOOOOOO!"
Haven't read anything but fic in the last couple months though. The last thing I actually read was Iron Widow. Which, funny story. I had borrowed it from the library, read and enjoyed, and then the next day Christine was like 'I bought you a book I think you'll like!' and it was Iron Widow. She's also bought me the new Good Omens audiobook but I haven't listened to it yet. I haven't really listened to much of anything, barely keeping up with my podfic gifts (and I still have one six-hour one that I have only managed the first half hour of). I miss my daily two-hour round trip commute for exactly ONE reason.
Currently not even going to the office for the standard-since-september of one day a week, because they're remodeling our floor. And also because of Tammie's leg, and.....ohhhh! I almost forgot! ( Eyesight and eye treatment stuff )it was like magic. My vision is back to 20/30 or so, without glasses.
Worried about Christine, over in Latvia.
It's been a busy couple of months. We went away in January for an extended weekend as a late anniversary celebration, and on the first full day, Tammie broke her left ankle. So our weekend turned into running around between pharmacies and urgent cares, and the subsequent several weeks have consisted of me trying to keep the household running basically by myself. Rose has stepped up to help, thank the gods, but she's not all that physically capable either. In some ways it's been a relief, in that there's no 'who's gonna do it' questions that end in nothing but discussion happening until everyone is too tired to do anything anyway. It's either I do it, or it doesn't get done.
I've managed to watch a little bit of media in amongst all that; Chris and I watched the new season of the Witcher, which I found disappointing in some way I wasn't able to pin down. I wanted Geralt and Jaskier to reconcile. I did appreciate the Yen/Jask commiseration over Geralt walking away from both of them, though.
I've been rewatching Word of Honor with Ollie, somewhat inconsistently, but we've got two episodes left now. They are going to be so upset with me once we watch the next one, I fear.
And I watched all of the Imperial Coroner, which was very sweet and cute--and I already made a podfic for it, of one of the thirteen whole fics in English. Of those 13, several are f/f, and several more are OT4, so that's a nice unusual ratio.
Just the other day watched Kimi no Na wa (Your Name) which was beautiful, a little sad and a little hopeful.
Have also made much podfic, go look for yourselves if you're interested, at https://archiveofourown.org/users/semperfiona/works. Writing hasn't really been happening except for a couple of drabbles that might someday become an actual story if I would go back to them.
I started taking an actual beginning Chinese class. It's pretty travel-oriented, from what I can tell after just two lessons, and so far we haven't done any like grammar or vocab drills, much less tried to learn any hanzi, just repeating sentences. Most of which I already understood or knew, because at this point I'm 18 months in to Duolingo Mandarin. (82% on the last mastery quiz, though a lot of that is because I'm good at guessing. But 'figuring it out from context' is also a thing, so go me?) One of the women in the class is also into the Untamed and other dramas so maybe new friend? She saw my wangxian bunnies in the background on zoom and was like "I HAVE THOSE TOOOOOO!"
Haven't read anything but fic in the last couple months though. The last thing I actually read was Iron Widow. Which, funny story. I had borrowed it from the library, read and enjoyed, and then the next day Christine was like 'I bought you a book I think you'll like!' and it was Iron Widow. She's also bought me the new Good Omens audiobook but I haven't listened to it yet. I haven't really listened to much of anything, barely keeping up with my podfic gifts (and I still have one six-hour one that I have only managed the first half hour of). I miss my daily two-hour round trip commute for exactly ONE reason.
Currently not even going to the office for the standard-since-september of one day a week, because they're remodeling our floor. And also because of Tammie's leg, and.....ohhhh! I almost forgot! ( Eyesight and eye treatment stuff )it was like magic. My vision is back to 20/30 or so, without glasses.
Worried about Christine, over in Latvia.
