The water's depths can't kill me yet
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rushthatspeaks and his child to the zoo this morning because I crashed so hard last night that I slept ten to eleven hours and am having difficulty remembering the day of the week, but he just dropped by with a nineweaving in the car and brought me my Christmas present of a sweater in the pattern of the Minoan octopus flask from Palaikastro and the cup with the scale motif from Archanes: it's spectacular. I was able to give him the collected cartoons and comics and poems of Le Guin's Book of Cats (2025). I got to see photographs of Artic and fennec foxes, flamingos and peccaries, sloth and snow leopard, porcupine and poison dart frog. Having spent the prior portion of my afternoon in the excitement of calling doctors and paying bills, my evening's plans involve couch and books.
rushthatspeaks and his child to the zoo this morning because I crashed so hard last night that I slept ten to eleven hours and am having difficulty remembering the day of the week, but he just dropped by with a nineweaving in the car and brought me my Christmas present of a sweater in the pattern of the Minoan octopus flask from Palaikastro and the cup with the scale motif from Archanes: it's spectacular. I was able to give him the collected cartoons and comics and poems of Le Guin's Book of Cats (2025). I got to see photographs of Artic and fennec foxes, flamingos and peccaries, sloth and snow leopard, porcupine and poison dart frog. Having spent the prior portion of my afternoon in the excitement of calling doctors and paying bills, my evening's plans involve couch and books.
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It was good! It was good even not by comparison with calling doctors and paying bills!
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I had no idea it existed and was thrilled. I will try to collect a photo tomorrow when there is actual light.
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The sweater sounds Entirely You!
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It is pretty on brand! I do not own that many items of clothing in orange, but that's how the flask works.
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Thank you! Later in the evening I fell asleep.
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*hugs*
I think it sort of ended up as Valentine's Day Observed, which was not a problem.
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Nine
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It makes me happy that someone looked at Marine Style ware and thought it really needed to be wearable.
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I'm glad you got some sleep but sorry it ate your plans.
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Thank you!
I'm glad you got some sleep but sorry it ate your plans.
*hugs*
At this point the sleep is kind of a medical imperative, so it is what it is.
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Thank you!
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*Hugs*
(What were the couch-books?)
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Thank you! I forgot to get
*hugs*
(What were the couch-books?)
(Re-reads, primarily: McCaffrey's The White Dragon (1978), Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters (1975). I recently got hold of the original version of the latter's "Brothers and Sisters" from the Orsinian Tales (1975) and for the first time was able to compare how she'd revised a story for publication—for the better, but neat to see some of her original choices and how she'd decided to change them—and had just discovered that the same was true of more than one story in her first speculative collection. I'd known about "Winter's King," but not about "Vaster than Empires and More Slow," for example.)