the only sure things are death, taxes, and that you will have to learn a new CMS
berserk du soleil
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just some white she/her older millennial. "a villain that fights by the book of arithmetic." will be your book reading coach and cheerleader if you want, please ask. not a professional account. i hate reply guys and will make it weird. same with doomers
Also. I'm knitting my first ever garment, Petite Knit's Anker's Summer Shirt, and today I will divide it into sections to start doing raglan increases, and I'm not like SCARED scared but it is intimidating.
(Raglans are like "baseball shirt" style, where there isn't a shoulder seam, there are diagonal seams from the neck down to your underarm. When knitting, you add stitches along those lines to form that shirt shape.)
I read ebooks on my phone, and the thing people don't say enough is how you can pet a snuggling cat while you do that. Multitasking is fake but that is real.
"I have dissolved on my couch into safety, where there are the videos and there are the feed posts and other people’s faces and hair and families and food. I fall into a fresh, saturated portal, where things match, and if they don’t match, it’s all curated, all for a reason. Everything on screen is louder and shinier, and I climb dutifully inside, where I know what’s what. I fall into the buy-me land of voices, opinions, and fashion and beauty and intricate recipes."
i wrote briefly about louise hegarty's "Fair Play" and the anonymous book "Love Is Not Constantly Wondering If You Are Making the Biggest Mistake of Your Life" on my blog
https://aeta.mataroa.blog/blog/fair-play-chase-bridges-choose-your-own-misadventure/
"I scroll through some of her 'talks' on YouTube, speaking in a voice that is not hers. Everywhere, all over the world, people are seeing the girl and missing the monster. I watch Vogue tour the inside of Clara’s home. There she is, pretending to be natural. Pretending not to be beastly, in long silky trousers and some strange wraparound top that is far too flimsy for anyone wanting to be taken seriously."
I'm reading "The Catch" by Yrsa Daley-Ward, and it is beautifully strange and also just beautiful. She's mainly known as a poet.
RIYL Brit Bennett "The Vanishing Half," Virginia Feito, maybe even Miranda July
if you loved "into thin air," which i also did -- this book is like if it were a case study instead. what's happening at every step here? who's making sound decisions, and who isn't? what do researchers say about how we feel and choose? it is genuinely . . . fascinating, eye opening, provocative
the night she died, the white mountains of new hampshire had the second lowest observed temperature on earth (after antarctica) and the actual lowest windchill (-90F). they also have some of the consistently strongest winds on earth. that makes the mountains deceptively treacherous for their size.
loved this short book about a very experienced mountaineer who died during some of the literal worst weather on earth, and the people who tried to rescue her. the author is a risk assessor and this is more effective than any textbook. i learned so much and felt so much empathy and frustration.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ef17e5fa-81da-42eb-a8ed-87dc9712dc92
