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ysobel1. Hillary Clinton is coming here to speak, as part of her book tour. I have a ticket, which also apparently means a copy of her book, *and* since my dad is a Very Big Donor, I get to meet her. Pay, I'm not as excited about this as I was about George Takei, but still. (N.B. I am also feeling ridiculously defensive about this, so please no HRC-bashing in comments. I probably don't need to say that but I'd rather preempt any drama)
2. Getting close to done with the bunny I'm making for the now-12-year-old kid with fop who's still in the hospital. I have an ear I'm satisfied with, so just have to make a second ear and then attach them. And then do the trach, if I can figure that out. "
3. Getting my first delta. Er, okay, that requires explanation. There's a subreddit called cmv -- change my view -- where people post their opinion on something to get other people to chsnge their mind. (Basically, "I believe X, and it's an unpopular opinion and I'd like to believe something else, so persuade me otherwise".) If you feel a comment has changed your view, whether or not you're the op in the thread, you can award a delta, kind of like a kudos; this is separate from the upvoting/downvoting that all Reddit uses. I've posted a few things ere or there as responses, but mostly they've been un-responded to, much less in-delayed, until tonight. Which is trivial and yet super exciting.
4. The realization that I can order another tube hydration system thing (like what I use at night) for choir rehearsals. Hydrating during choir is awkward because I need both hands for the iPad, which means my drink has to go in my hip pack drink holder thingie, but the ridiculously straws I have aren't long enough to reach without me holding the bottom of the cup; and it's really hard for me to get the cup out when there's an iPad in the way. But this tubing system is stiff enough that I can get it to my mouth -- I'd gotten it for bed because the water bottle hangs above me and the tubing hangs down from it and I just need to move it laterally to get it to my mouth, but this particular system is nicely sturdy enough that I can hold it pointing up without it immediately flipping -- and then I wouldn't have to get the *bottle* out, just wave the tubing in my face, and otherwise have it in my lap within easy reach.
5. The fact that Phantom Tollbooth is available in kindle format. đ It's been ages since I read it and it's just as charming and wacky as I remember. (And it has a great first sentence: "There was once a boy named Milo who didnât know what to do with himselfânot just sometimes, but always.")
2. Getting close to done with the bunny I'm making for the now-12-year-old kid with fop who's still in the hospital. I have an ear I'm satisfied with, so just have to make a second ear and then attach them. And then do the trach, if I can figure that out. "
3. Getting my first delta. Er, okay, that requires explanation. There's a subreddit called cmv -- change my view -- where people post their opinion on something to get other people to chsnge their mind. (Basically, "I believe X, and it's an unpopular opinion and I'd like to believe something else, so persuade me otherwise".) If you feel a comment has changed your view, whether or not you're the op in the thread, you can award a delta, kind of like a kudos; this is separate from the upvoting/downvoting that all Reddit uses. I've posted a few things ere or there as responses, but mostly they've been un-responded to, much less in-delayed, until tonight. Which is trivial and yet super exciting.
4. The realization that I can order another tube hydration system thing (like what I use at night) for choir rehearsals. Hydrating during choir is awkward because I need both hands for the iPad, which means my drink has to go in my hip pack drink holder thingie, but the ridiculously straws I have aren't long enough to reach without me holding the bottom of the cup; and it's really hard for me to get the cup out when there's an iPad in the way. But this tubing system is stiff enough that I can get it to my mouth -- I'd gotten it for bed because the water bottle hangs above me and the tubing hangs down from it and I just need to move it laterally to get it to my mouth, but this particular system is nicely sturdy enough that I can hold it pointing up without it immediately flipping -- and then I wouldn't have to get the *bottle* out, just wave the tubing in my face, and otherwise have it in my lap within easy reach.
5. The fact that Phantom Tollbooth is available in kindle format. đ It's been ages since I read it and it's just as charming and wacky as I remember. (And it has a great first sentence: "There was once a boy named Milo who didnât know what to do with himselfânot just sometimes, but always.")
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Date: 2017-09-23 05:13 am (UTC)3/ That sounds kind of cool, actually. I presume there's some kind of rule against just bashing at other people's opinions?
5/ The Phantom Tollbooth is wonderful. I enjoyed it so much as a kid, and even reading now, it's enjoyably clever.
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Date: 2017-09-23 06:28 am (UTC)I'm just a bit ... gun-shy? ... in talking about it because I mentioned to one of my aides that I was going to the talk, and sparked a huge rant from her about how ~horrible~ HRC was and she was ~just as evil as Trump~ and she ~offended pretty much everyone internationally~ and if she had been elected president then she wouldn't be able to get anything done and everything would just grind to a standstill and ... on and on, and it was completely not appropriate and flummoxed me because wtf. And so now every time I want to squee about it I stop and go "...but what sort of backlash will I get".
Hence the disclaimer. Even though I think anyone who reads my journal has enough common sense to recognize that a) even if they don't agree with all of her policies, she is a strong and amazingly accomplished woman, and b) when someone is squeeing about something it's kinda bad manners to shit all over what they're squeeing about. (Unless it's nazis.)
3: Yup, and it's heavily moderated. Challenging opinions is okay, but ad hominem stuff or insults or whatever aren't allowed. It's a really cool concept. Some topics are more interesting than others, obviously....
5: I am so very glad this isn't one of the books visited by the Suck Fairy. I'd remembered it as being awesome, but it's super nice that it's still just as awesome.
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Date: 2017-09-23 08:00 am (UTC)Also, I think the aide was being ****massively**** inappropriate - if you are on-duty as someone's paid aide, you should not berate them about their politics, even if you strongly disagree with their politics.
The aide should have said
"I hope you have a good time + subject change"
or
"I hope you have a good time + I prefer not to talk about politics while at work."
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Date: 2017-09-23 04:34 pm (UTC)2. Cool! That bunny will be SO meaningful for her.
3. Congrats. Thanks for letting me know about https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview -- it sounds like an intriguing place to hangout.
4. I love my Camelbak, even though the bite valves
gettingbecome icky-looking too quickly.5. Oh! The Phantom Tollbooth was so comforting when I was young.
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Date: 2017-09-23 05:34 pm (UTC)Phantom Tollbooth on kindle? I'm off to the kindle store right now.
also, glad you're able to continue with choir.
in other news, the move to Davis is back on the calendar. probably six to eight months.