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Yesterday I did the laundry and hung it out on the line, washed my hair, scheduled a vaccine appointment for Tuesday morning, had a call with my mentee (who’s doing great and starting to push at questions about initiative vs insubordination and gathering tools for defying the “women don’t ask” trope), and watched more Bridgerton... which had a brilliant denouement but seems to have more episodes after?? What else could possibly in store?! Highly recommend, there is a shitton of people-not-taking-to-each-other but (1) that’s kindof par for Regency and (2) they /do/ eventually tell each other everything, so it depends on your tolerance/patience ratio.

Epic dreams of trying to save Olin from an alien power generation experiment gone horribly wrong, complete with remarks like “we have to run, we don’t know how big the explosion is going to be“ “it’s not gonna be that big, we have time to fix it—“

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Yesterday I started making muslin bags to take bulk shopping, since the new recycle parameters exclude the kind of plastic tubs we usually buy loads of stuff in. I’m hand-felling everything and only have a rough plan for sizes and closures so we’ll see. We went to the co-op and got carrots, bell peppers, snap peas, citrus, onion, turnips, pecans, walnuts, pepitas, raisins, chocolate chips, spelt flour, brown rice syrup, cinnamon toothpaste, an interesting dry sausage, mozzarella, chestnut biscuits, and bunny snacks. We stopped at five points on the way home for a baguette and pastries. Home, lunch, crossword, then more sewing. I started the next Imager book, Imager’s Challenge. Good so far. My arms got tetchy with me after a while so I had a snack, then reviewed how to do fingerloop braids, and made one to act as a drawstring. Dinner, then I started a new show, The Repair Shop, a BBC reality tv production about same. It suffers a bit from artificial “Will it be done before the customer comes to pick it up” drama, and is a bit heavy on the dudes, but is otherwise perfect. There are a bunch of different experts and they all adore each other’s work. Mechanical problems and puzzles that all have solutions. Getting emotional about seeing a favored family heirloom restored is supported with grace and a sense of normalcy. Love it, do recommend.

Snack, sleep. Bizarre dreams of a Stepford authoritarian Olin and a show that combined live-action opera with a weird postmodern animated story composed of clips of old video games, and anime-style commentary in a separate projection. People got wild over it. Went hiking with the incoming class of students along a steep/cliff shore, where some kind of water spirit possessed the tides and washed out the trail tsunami-style on two occasions. Visited my parents in the old house, where the alarm clock had been replaced with a creepy recorded message and a sortof open hourglass sand puzzle.

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Yesterday my period arrived early, and with a vengeance, so we did not go to clay. I finished sewing and felling all the side seams, and started in on cutting bias and binding the necklines. I finished Contact, which ties up nicely. I always did like the book’s version, where five people go and are able to support each order afterwards, better than the movie version with just one.

I had to run out to the garden for lunch veg, snagging an early tromboncino, some beans, and a few young haricots. After lunch the pain meds had kicked in enough that we went to the co-op and the teaching garden. I got more brown rice syrup for bars, date syrup as a possible alternative, and chocolate. P found some interesting new yogurt and also obtained enough kit for doing overnight oats for class days. The ETG is a riot of fruits; it will be an excellent year for kiwi and figs. One of the apple trees gave up the ghost, and it looks like there have been pest problems, probably deer or rabbits, among the brassicas and fennel. We lifted some basil and went off home.

Dinner, crossword, the final episode of the season of Gentleman Jack (OMG so good; I particularly liked how they shot the jrqqvatf to show congruency, and the flash of memory showing that zheqre vf sberire), snack, prep for more bars, sleep.

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Yesterday I spun some more red brown alpaca, finished up some preliminary
experiments and plots and sent them over to my boss, got skipped over by
the shuttle and walked home. I watched two episodes of the new Queer Eye
over knitting, and so far they are fighting toxic masculinity wherever they
find it, which is wonderful. The apparently-nc touching in ep 2 was a
little off putting, though by the end it was voluntary & spontaneous, so
maybe there was consent going on behind the scenes? Wishful thinking? I can
hope.

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