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hey-o, happy Monday...
::waves::
The weekend was reasonably decent--we started off with an outdoor office hang at my director's house on Friday morning. It was good to see people IRL and she (director) is a raging extrovert who loved to throw parties in the pre-C19 times so she hauled out all kinds of yard games and set up a sno-cone maker and laid in a supply of individually packaged snacks and treats, so that was fun. Also, the weather (the heat dome?) broke so we weren't being roasted by the sun, which made everything much more pleasant.
The rest of the weekend was mostly just chill. L came down and we walked a couple of miles with my Berserker!Dog and I watched a couple more episodes of Mando S2 ()
I was not a fan of the Frog Lady episode (I mean, yes, hellos to Filoni in a rebel pilot flightsuit, but the rest was meh, like setting up pieces on a chessboard. This bad thing happened and now we're running from the next bad thing and whoops, there's another nasty thing trying to eat us... yawn.)
But then, the actual Mandalorians showed up in the next episode and things got lively. I really did love their Murder!Squad strut, just wandering down ship passages, outnumbered 10:1 and still taking everyone out. I was delighted that Katee Sackhoff played the live-action Bo Katan but I kind of wish she wasn't still the underdog fighting to take back the planet. It seems like a stalling-out of her character. But I'm looking forward to meeting Ahsoka sometime soon.
And here, have a couple of links:
In the Before times (2019) Anne Helen Petersen wrote about millennials and burnout and I somehow followed that to her newsletter, Culture Study, which has given me lots to think of over the last year and I would recommend it highly. And then last week, while I felt like I was walking through slowly hardening cement, she published You're Still Exhausted, and it was exactly what I needed to read. It might help you, too?
In much less fraught linkage, it is apparently #NationalBookLoversDay, and so NASA has linked to their (free) e-book archive. Might I recommend Earth at Night or Through the Eyes of Cassini?
Have a good week, y'all!
The weekend was reasonably decent--we started off with an outdoor office hang at my director's house on Friday morning. It was good to see people IRL and she (director) is a raging extrovert who loved to throw parties in the pre-C19 times so she hauled out all kinds of yard games and set up a sno-cone maker and laid in a supply of individually packaged snacks and treats, so that was fun. Also, the weather (the heat dome?) broke so we weren't being roasted by the sun, which made everything much more pleasant.
The rest of the weekend was mostly just chill. L came down and we walked a couple of miles with my Berserker!Dog and I watched a couple more episodes of Mando S2 ()
I was not a fan of the Frog Lady episode (I mean, yes, hellos to Filoni in a rebel pilot flightsuit, but the rest was meh, like setting up pieces on a chessboard. This bad thing happened and now we're running from the next bad thing and whoops, there's another nasty thing trying to eat us... yawn.)
But then, the actual Mandalorians showed up in the next episode and things got lively. I really did love their Murder!Squad strut, just wandering down ship passages, outnumbered 10:1 and still taking everyone out. I was delighted that Katee Sackhoff played the live-action Bo Katan but I kind of wish she wasn't still the underdog fighting to take back the planet. It seems like a stalling-out of her character. But I'm looking forward to meeting Ahsoka sometime soon.
And here, have a couple of links:
Have a good week, y'all!