sovay | We drove a broken glowstick, we built a bedsheet circus

rosefox, per the meme, gave me "three things that I may or may not know or care about."

1) Scarves.

I like them! I have three in seasonal rotation. The first is forest-green and dates back to my last few years of high school; the second was knitted for me nine years ago by

rushthatspeaks and makes me feel like a Time Lord, being twenty different colors and taller than I am; they are winter scarves, they are part of my layering which can be shed if I warm up from walking, and the latter is heaviest-duty. The third is dark purple silk painted with peach-green-gold-pink fish (koi-like, sturgeon-ish) and comes from my grandmother; I think of it as the most formal. I wear it for myself in autumn, but I have also started wearing it to perform with A Besere Velt. I have never worn a headscarf except experimentally after seeing the film of Fiddler on the Roof (1971) for the first time in elementary school. Then I spent almost all of fifth grade with my hair braided daily and stuffed under a corduroy cap, which was probably more on brand.

2) Canteens (the kind that carry water, not the cafeteria kind).

Technically I own one, although I almost never remember to use it to carry water anywhere that isn't a long outdoor excursion. It's metal and sweats a lot and usually ends up wrapped in a plastic bag so as not to drip all over me, which on some level feels like missing the reusable-sustainable point. When I was small we had one in the house which came with a metal cup—I associate it with my mother and her family's childhood camping trips all over the national parks of the American Midwest—and I thought that was great.

3) Scooters (the skateboard-with-handle kind, not the motorcycle-lite kind).

I do not think I have ever interacted with one of these objects in my life. I had a skateboard as a child, but mostly I had a bike.

Anyone else want three things?